Typewriter Captions for Tutorials and Screen Walkthroughs

Typewriter is one of the caption styles in the Subtitles panel. Its monospaced letters look like terminal output or a code editor, so it fits videos where the viewer reads along with software, data or a list of steps.

What the style looks like

• The font is Mono, in regular weight, at 38 px. That is a little smaller and lighter than the default Clean style, which is 42 px and bold.
• A dark plate sits behind the words. It is translucent, so a little of the screen shows through.
• There is no drop shadow. The plate keeps the text readable.
• The caption sits low in the frame, in the same spot as Clean.
• With Highlight spoken word on, a colored box follows the word being said. The box is yellow until you pick another color.

Which videos it suits

Typewriter works for screen recordings, product demos, coding and data tutorials, and any explainer that walks through steps. The dark plate keeps the words readable over a busy desktop or a white web page. It also gives a technology topic a technical feel without any extra graphics.

A warm personal story reads better in a rounder or serif style, such as Editorial.

Apply it

1. Open the Subtitles tab in the left panel. If the project has no captions yet, pick the spoken language and press Generate subtitles.
2. Open the Styles tab. Each style is drawn as a small live preview. Select Typewriter.
3. Play a section where the screen changes a lot and check that every caption is easy to read.
4. Open the Options tab and adjust Size if the line feels too small or too large. The range is 24 to 120 px.

Keep lines short

Every letter in a monospaced font takes the same width, so a long caption runs wide. A caption that is too long also wraps onto extra lines, and those lines cover more of your recording.

Split long captions in the Content tab. Click in the text where the break should fall and press Enter. The caption becomes two captions, each with its own start and end time.

Typewriter captions are easiest to follow when each caption matches one step on screen. As you play the video through, watch for a caption that spans two actions and split it, so each action gets its own line. The captions name what is happening, the cursor shows where, and the viewer can follow with the sound off.

Move it off the interface

Screen recordings often put buttons, menus or a dock along the bottom edge. Drag the caption on the video to a quieter part of the frame. The move applies to every caption in the track, so you set it once.

To go back, open Options and press Reset in the Position row.

Try it on a demo

Open a screen recording in DepCut, generate captions, and flip between Typewriter and Clean on the same section to see which one suits your footage.