Cube

Each new phrase turns into view as the next face of a 3D cube, the previous phrase rotating up and away on a horizontal hinge

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

Usage

CaptionCube moves at the page level. Every page is a face of a cube hinged along the line: when the next phrase starts, the cube turns, the old phrase rotating up and away while the new one comes round from below. After a silence the line turns away on its own and the next phrase turns in fresh. Words inside a page stay still; switch on tintActive to colour the word being spoken.

The cube turns one line, so the text never wraps. The default combineTokensWithinMilliseconds of 800 keeps pages to three or four words; raise it only if the longest phrase still fits your frame on one line.

The component renders only the text block. See Positioning for safe placements and Get a transcript for producing captions.json.

import { AbsoluteFill } from "remotion";
import { CaptionCube } from "@/components/remocn/caption-cube";
import captions from "./captions.json";
 
export const MyScene = () => (
  <AbsoluteFill
    style={{
      justifyContent: "flex-end",
      alignItems: "center",
      paddingBottom: 108,
      paddingInline: 192,
    }}
  >
    <CaptionCube 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
number800How 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 turns away 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"Text colour.
tintActive
booleanfalseColour the word being spoken with `activeColor`.
activeColor
string"#facc15"Colour of the spoken word when `tintActive` is on.
shadow
booleantrueA tight text shadow that keeps the caption legible over bright footage.
className
string—Classes for the text block — font family, `uppercase`.