Design properties

This page lists every setting in the Design panel, the right-hand panel of the Composition tab. Each table shows a setting’s label as it appears in the app, the levels where you can change it, its options or unit, and its default.

How the levels work

Every style is set at one of five levels. You pick the level by selecting something in the Composition panel or in the preview:

Level	What you select	What it affects
Global	The Credits movie row at the top of the Composition panel (the Design panel calls it Global defaults)	Every scene, block, line and name
Scene	A scene	Everything in that scene
Block	A block	Every line in that block
Line	One credit line in a block (the panel header says ITEM)	That line and its names, in this block only
Name	One name under a line (the panel header says SUBITEM)	That name, in this block only

A lower level overrides a higher one. A setting you don’t change at a level is inherited from the level above, and the panel shows where it comes from, for example from Global. To change it at the level you’re on, tick the checkbox at the left of the setting: it takes the inherited value as a starting point and you can edit it. Untick it to inherit again. When lines or blocks below have their own value, the setting shows how many and a Clear link that removes those overrides. The full explanation is in Inherit and override.

Line and Name settings are stored per placement: if the same credit line appears in two blocks, each placement keeps its own style.

At Global and Scene level the panel shows every section, grouped under Cast, Crew, Music, Text and Image, so you can style each block type once (see Global styles and fonts). At Block, Line and Name level it only shows the sections for that block’s type. The search box at the top, Search properties…, filters the settings by label.

Units: vw is a percentage of the frame width (1.6 vw is 1.6% of the width), so sizes stay the same relative to the picture at any resolution. em is relative to the text’s own font size. % is a percentage of the space the block or image sits in.

Scene

The section is called All scenes at Global level and This scene on a scene. Timing is explained in Cards, scrolls and timing.

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
Scene type	Global, Scene	Card, Scroll	Scroll	A card holds still on screen; a scroll moves up through the frame.
Scroll mode	Global, Scene	Fixed duration, Time in view, Speed	Fixed duration	Scroll scenes only. Chooses which of the next three settings times the scroll.
Duration	Global, Scene	seconds (s)	4	Card scenes, and scroll scenes set to Fixed duration.
Time in view	Global, Scene	seconds (s)	4	Scroll scenes set to Time in view: how long each line takes to cross the frame.
Speed	Global, Scene	pixels per second (px/s)	60	Scroll scenes set to Speed. Measured on a 1080-pixel-high frame, so the timing is the same at any resolution.
Fade in	Global, Scene	seconds (s)	0.5
Fade out	Global, Scene	seconds (s)	0.5
Vertical alignment	Global, Scene	Top, Center, Bottom	Center	Where the content sits on a card.
Background color	Global, Scene	hex color	#000000 (black)

Blocks

One section per block type: Cast blocks, Crew blocks, Music blocks, Text blocks and Image blocks (All cast blocks at Global, This cast block on a block, and so on). They all have the same settings, set separately for each type.

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
Columns	Global, Scene, Block	1, 2, 3 (image blocks: 1 to 5)	1	Lays the block’s lines out in columns. See Columns and alignment.
Column gap	Global, Scene, Block	vw	2	Space between the block’s columns.
Width	Global, Scene, Block	%	80	Width of the block.
Block alignment	Global, Scene, Block	Left, Center, Right	Center	Where the block sits across the frame.
Margin top	Global, Scene, Block	vw	1
Margin bottom	Global, Scene, Block	vw	1
Margin left	Global, Scene, Block	vw	0
Margin right	Global, Scene, Block	vw	0

Entries

How each credit line is laid out. The sections are Cast entries, Crew entries, Songs and Text entries (This cast entry, This song and so on when a line is selected). Image blocks have their own section, below.

Setting	Block types	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
Entry layout	Cast, crew, music, text	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Stacked, Inline	Stacked	Stacked puts the names under the label; Inline puts them side by side.
Content alignment	Cast, crew, music, text	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Left, Center, Right, plus Inner and Outer when the layout is Inline	Center	Inner brings the label and the names together toward the middle; Outer pushes them apart.
Label–values gap	Cast, crew	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0	Space between the label and the names. Shown when the layout is Inline and the alignment is Inner.
Name order	Cast, crew	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Cast: Character first, Actor first. Crew: Role first, Person first	Character first / Role first	Which comes first, the label or the names.
Gap between entries	Cast, crew, music, text	Global, Scene, Block	vw	0	Space between the lines of a block.
Item margin top	Cast, crew, music, text, image	Line	vw	0	Nudges one line without moving the others.
Item margin bottom	Cast, crew, music, text, image	Line	vw	0

Name lists

How the names under a line are laid out. The sections are Actors list (cast), People list (crew) and Song-credit list (music). Text and image blocks don’t have one.

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
List layout	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Stacked, Inline, 2 columns, 3 columns	Stacked	2 and 3 columns split a long list of names into columns.
Sub-column gap	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0	Shown with 2 or 3 columns.
Column text alignment	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Left, Center, Right, Inner, Outer	Center	Shown with 2 or 3 columns. Inner makes the columns face each other; Outer makes them face away.
Separator	Global, Scene, Block, Line	(none), -, ·, comma (,), &, blank space, and, or any text you type	(none)	Placed between names in the Stacked and Inline layouts.
Last separator	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Same as Separator	(none)	Used between the last two names. When it’s not set, the Separator is used.

Text styles

Each block type has one style for the line’s label and, except text blocks, one for its names:

Block type	Label style	Name style
Cast	Character style	Actor style
Crew	Role style	Person style
Music	Song style	Song credit style
Text	Text style
Image		Caption style

All of them have the same settings:

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
Font family	Global, Scene, Block (image blocks: also Line and Name)	Google Fonts, or fonts uploaded to the project, the organization or the library (My fonts)	Inter	Chosen in the font dialog together with the weight.
Weight	Global, Scene, Block (image blocks: also Line and Name)	Thin (100) to Black (900), limited to the weights the font has	Regular (400)
Font size	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	vw	1.6
Color	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	hex color	#FFFFFF (white)
Line height	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	em	1.2
Letter spacing	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	em	0
Text case	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	None, Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Small caps	None
Text alignment	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	Left, Center, Right	Center
Hide label	Global, Scene, Block, Line	on / off	off	Only in Character, Role, Song and Text style. Hides the label (the character, role, song title or text) of the line.

Label styles go down to the Line level; name styles go down to the Name level, so you can restyle a single name. Text blocks are covered in Text blocks and headings.

Images

The Images section (This image when one is selected) sizes and treats each logo or picture in an image block. See Logos and images.

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default	Notes
Width	Global, Scene, Block, Line	%	100	Width of the image.
Height	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0	0 means automatic: the height follows the width and keeps the image’s proportions. Any other value fixes the height, and the image is scaled without distortion.
Invert colors	Global, Scene, Block, Line	on / off	off	Turns a black logo white, keeping transparency.
Grayscale	Global, Scene, Block, Line	on / off	off	Can be combined with Invert colors.
Margin top	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0
Margin bottom	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0
Margin left	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0
Margin right	Global, Scene, Block, Line	vw	0
Caption position	Global, Scene, Block, Line	Below, Above	Below	In the Caption style section. Puts the caption under or over the image.

For image blocks, the Line level is one image and the Name level is one caption line. The image also has the Item margin top and Item margin bottom settings listed under Entries.

Inline marker style

Text you put between double brackets in a name, like [[as]], is an inline marker: it gets its own style, so a small “as” or “and” can sit between bigger names. The section appears at every level.

Setting	Levels	Options or unit	Default
Font family	Global, Scene, Block	Google Fonts or your uploaded fonts	Inter
Weight	Global, Scene, Block	Thin (100) to Black (900), limited to the weights the font has	Regular (400)
Font size	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	vw	1.2
Color	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	hex color	#FFFFFF (white)
Letter spacing	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	em	0
Text case	Global, Scene, Block, Line, Name	None, Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Small caps	None