Active Pop

The word being spoken turns to the accent colour and springs up in scale, then settles back as the voice moves on

Installation
$ pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @remocn/caption-active-pop

Usage

CaptionActivePop shows the whole page in the base colour. The word being spoken switches to activeColor and springs up to popScale, then eases back down and returns to the base colour once the next word takes over. The scale is a transform, so the neighbouring words never shift.

It renders only the text block, so place it inside your own AbsoluteFill. See Positioning for safe placements and Get a transcript for producing captions.json.

import { AbsoluteFill } from "remotion";
import { CaptionActivePop } from "@/components/remocn/caption-active-pop";
import captions from "./captions.json";
 
export const MyScene = () => (
  <AbsoluteFill
    style={{
      justifyContent: "flex-end",
      alignItems: "center",
      paddingBottom: 108,
      paddingInline: 192,
    }}
  >
    <CaptionActivePop captions={captions} />
  </AbsoluteFill>
);
Props
PropTypeDefaultDescription
captions
Caption[]—The timed transcript, in the `Caption` shape from `@remotion/captions`. Times are relative to the start of the surrounding `Sequence`.
combineTokensWithinMilliseconds
number1200How much speech one page may span before the next word starts a new page. Pages also break at the end of a sentence and on any pause of at least `holdMs` (300 ms minimum).
holdMs
number600How long a page stays after its last word when the next page is not already due. It fades out at the end of the hold instead of hanging through the pause.
fontSize
number64Font size in pixels.
fontWeight
number800Font weight. The font itself is inherited.
color
string"#ffffff"Colour of every word that is not being spoken.
activeColor
string"#facc15"Colour of the word being spoken.
popScale
number1.12How large the spoken word grows. Keep it modest — past about 1.25 the word starts to crowd its neighbours.
shadow
booleantrueA tight text shadow that keeps the caption legible over bright footage.
className
string—Classes for the text block — width, font family, `uppercase`.