Style every clip from one editing node.Style Video is the primary workflow node for titles, subtitles, watermarks, media overlays, lower thirds, outro end cards, outro audio, and color grading. It replaces the separate Add Subtitles, Add Title Overlay, Add Watermark, and Add Outro nodes for new workflows. Background music remains available through the separate Add Music node.
Schema
- Input: Clips
- Output: Styled clips
- Node type:
style_video - Required styling fields: None
All Style Video fields are optional. An empty Style Video node is valid
and passes clips through unchanged.
Add the node
Open Workflows, create or edit a workflow, and add a trigger or another node that outputs clips. In the Editing stage, select Style Video. Click the node on the canvas whenever you want to reopen its settings. The settings panel opens with two tabs:- Templates for starting from a saved look
- Create your own for building or changing the style layer by layer
Choose how you want to work
You can use Style Video in three different ways.Start from a template
Open Templates, then use Vertical or Landscape to filter the gallery. The filter only changes which templates are shown. Each template keeps the aspect ratio and visual treatment with which it was saved. Template previews play silently and loop. Templates with an optimized video preview load that version first, with the original image preview available as a fallback if video playback fails. New global templates retain the GIF visual style: Overlap creates the GIF first, then converts its frames into a smaller MP4 for gallery playback. Select a template tile to apply that complete look. Then open Create your own to add clip-specific text or graphics, change an element, remove an element, or adjust the color grade. Select Blank when you want no starting template and would rather build the stack from scratch.Create your own style
The Create your own tab organizes the node into five sections. Every section is optional, and you can use any combination of them.
Adding an element opens its detailed editor. Return to All Elements to see
the complete stack. An existing element can be opened for editing, disabled
without deleting its settings, or removed from the node.
Title Text
Use Add Title Overlay for a headline near the start of each clip. The title’s Template picker opens automatically, with Cal Sans Pill first. Select a preset to collapse the picker, then start in Content. Select a compact pill for the field you want to edit, such as the post body, author, or logo. The selected field’s controls appear together, and its matching region is highlighted in the editor preview. The selection highlight is never included in the exported video. The preview fits the title for easy editing; choose Full frame to check its video placement. For generated content, edit the selected field’s prompt and preview its output. The preview helps you design the title; workflow runs generate fresh copy for each clip. Pin a field to keep its value fixed, then enter its text or choose an image. Other fields can continue generating independently. Choose Workflow value when the field should use current source or clip data. Once the content is ready, adjust appearance and timing: palettes, font and spacing, background and shadow treatments, placement, duration, and entry and exit transitions. Dynamic Position can anchor a title to a detected split-view seam, while Avoid Faces moves it away from detected people and subjects. Existing title prompts and speaker-name generation keep their behavior when you open or select a field. Presets with separate Name and Title / Hook blocks retain their ordered generation. Existing Use Source Video Title settings still make a YouTube source title take precedence until you edit the primary field or choose Use content settings; other fields remain independent. For a title from another source type, use the Source Title workflow value.Variables in title text and graphics
Variables let you reuse a value across fields when needed. Start by selecting the content field, then choose a compatible variable from Value source. Add as many variables as your title needs. Each variable has a name, an output type, and a source:- Generated uses its own prompt to produce text, a number, or a boolean from each clip.
- Fixed reuses your entered value. Use it for a consistent author name, handle, or an image selected from your assets or uploaded as a logo.
- Workflow value references a field from the current input, such as the source title, clip description, duration, or thumbnail.
Rich title library
The title gallery includes twelve layered designs in addition to the existing presets. Hover over a new preset, or focus its tile with the keyboard, to play its animation. These previews use the same renderer as the video output. The Lower Thirds category also includes Editorial White Lower Third: a large white serif speaker name near the lower-left edge, followed by a smaller white role line. The name fades and drifts into place before the role appears. Both text lines, their font sizes, and their colors remain editable. The role line wraps within the resized title area, and text padding keeps both lines away from the card edges. You can also add a background color; the box fills the resized area and is transparent by default. The same preset is available for automatic speaker cards in Add Lower Thirds.
Most presets include a coordinated sequence: their graphic layers enter first,
the text follows, the finished title holds for reading, and the layers exit.
Extending the overlay adds time to its readable hold; the preset’s entrance and
exit keep the same pace. Very short overlays compress these animations to fit.
Intro and outro controls add
transitions to the whole title on top of that authored motion. Both tweet
designs appear immediately without an entrance animation.
Kinetic Stack has one Title field and one prompt for the complete headline.
Its text wraps automatically, and each colored block follows its line. You can
edit the full preview value or pin it as fixed text; there are no separate
generation prompts for individual lines.
Older Studio Kinetic titles adopt this layout when reopened, keeping their
placement and a saved copy of their original configuration.
Select each named text field from Content to edit it independently, then
choose a palette in the appearance controls to change the design’s colors.
Palette changes preserve your text and selected logo. Text
automatically fits its assigned area; concise copy retains the strongest
typographic hierarchy. In Studio, choose the same presets from Text, then
edit their text, timing, typography, size, and position.
For a branded preset, select its logo or avatar pill in Content and choose
an image from your assets or upload one. The logo keeps its proportions and the
preset’s placement and animation. Replace it or remove it at any time; an empty
slot stays invisible. Transparent images work well for marks that should sit
directly on the design.
Tweet Card includes Light, Dim, and Lights Out palettes with a card background.
Choose Tweet Overlay for white text near the top of a black screen or dark
video. Its background is transparent, so the underlying video shows through;
the black gallery preview demonstrates the intended placement. Both versions
have four content controls: Title, Handle, Display Name, and Image.
Both designs use the X logo and SVG reply, repost, and like icons in previews
and rendered videos. These icons follow the selected palette and stay proportional
when the title is stretched.
Upload an avatar or choose a brand image; it fills a circular crop. The profile
icon returns when you remove the image. During workflow generation, Overlap
generates the title from the clip by default. Display name and handle stay as
your supplied copy unless you bind AI variables to those fields. These values
are not fetched from a social account.
Tweet Minimal keeps only the circular profile image, display name, handle,
and post text. Its background is transparent, with no X logo, timestamp,
divider, or engagement icons and counts. It defaults to white text near the
top of the video and supports the same four content controls.
All title presets work through the workflow title node, including title layers
inside Style Video. Selecting a preset by
titlePresetId supplies its default
duration, palette, placement, and semantic generation block. Caller settings
take precedence. Speaker Spotlight generates the featured person’s name;
Tweet Card generates a short post body; the other designs generate a headline.
See Node Config
for preset IDs and an example.
Subtitles
Use Add Subtitles to choose one caption treatment for the node. Start from a subtitle preset, then customize positioning, line length and count, typography, colors, background treatment, highlights, animation, and speaker-specific styling. The preview updates as you work. Only one subtitle layer can be added to a Style Video node. If subtitles are not needed, leave the section empty.Graphics
The Graphics section can contain:- Watermark: a logo or brand mark pinned to a chosen position
- Media Overlay: an image or video placed over the clip for branding, context, or additional visuals
- Lower Third: a speaker name and role near the lower edge of the frame
Outro End Card
Use Add an End Card to configure a closing visual, an optional outro audio sting, or both. The outro is a terminal timeline segment rather than a normal overlay, so it always closes the clip after the visual stack.Color Grading
The Looks tab compares the current video frame with each built-in grade. The Adjustments tab provides a live RGB histogram and controls for exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, fade, vignette, blur, and film grain. Color grading affects the base video. Subtitles, titles, watermarks, lower thirds, and media overlays keep their authored colors. Custom.cube LUT files
are not currently supported.
Understand the visual order
The editor labels the stack FRONT → BACK. Title Text is in front of Subtitles, and Subtitles are in front of Graphics. Multiple elements inside the same section can be moved forward or back with the arrow controls. The Outro End Card and Color Grading sections behave differently from visual layers: the outro is always the final timeline segment, and color grading is applied to the base video behind the authored elements.Save a reusable template
After configuring the node, click Save Template, enter a template name, and keep the preview open while Overlap renders the template preview. Overlap joins the first and last six seconds of the current preview into a lightweight GIF and saves the reusable configuration to your account. Personal templates are marked Yours and appear before Overlap templates in the gallery. A saved template retains the reusable visual treatment, including subtitle and title styling, generation prompts, graphics, lower thirds, outro settings, and color grading. Title variables retain their prompts, output types, and field bindings. Generated title output is not reused as fixed content; the title and its variables can be generated again for each new clip. You do not need to save a template to use the node. For a one-off setup, simply configure the node, skip Save Template, and save or publish the workflow as usual. The style will apply whenever that workflow runs, but it will not appear as a reusable template in the gallery.API configuration
style_video_config is a versioned object. The wrapper requires version and
layers, but the styling elements themselves are optional and layers may be
empty. Every layer uses a stable, unique id.