Cue · UI sound studio

Select an audio clip in the timeline to transcribe it.

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MP4 · WebM · MOV. Its soundtrack lands in the bottom row and the timeline matches its length

Clip

Sound

Pitch0 st

Speed100%

Clip volume0.0 dB

PanC

Reverse

Repitch engine (tape-style): pitch (±2 octaves), speed and edge-warp all drive playback rate, so they interact: pitching down also lengthens the clip. Use warp to pull the length back if you want super-deep without the stretch.

Cleanup

Studio voice

Noise removal65%

De-ess45%

Room tone gate40%

Presence40%

Compression50%

Match level

Rumble filter, spectral noise removal, de-esser, room-tone gate, tone EQ, compressor and limiter: the standard broadcast voice chain, rendered once and cached, so preview and export match exactly. Noise is profiled from the quietest moments in the clip itself, so no noise sample is needed. Best on recorded speech; it will flatten designed UI sounds.

Filter & EQ

High-passOff

Low-passOff

EQ bell freq1.0k

EQ bell gain0 dB

The bell boosts or cuts a band around the chosen frequency. Move the gain away from 0 to hear it. High/low-pass carve away everything below/above their cutoff. Changes apply live during playback.

Effects

Drive0%

Delay mix0%

Delay time120 ms

Delay feedback35%

Reverb mix0%

Reverb size1.2 s

Crush0%

Tremolo0%

Tremolo rate6.0 Hz

Delay repeats the clip every “time” ms; feedback sets how many echoes. Reverb adds room ambience; size is the room’s decay. Crush bit-reduces the sound for a gritty, lo-fi edge. Tremolo wobbles the volume: depth sets how deep, rate how fast. Turn each mix/amount up first; at 0% the effect is bypassed. Tails ring past the clip and are included in exports.

Envelope

Fade in0 ms

Fade out0 ms

Warp

Stretch100%

Hold Shift and drag a clip edge to stretch or compress it.

Industry standards

Length: feedback cues under 400 ms; transitions 500–900 ms.
Pitch: ±2–5 st reads as variation; beyond ±7 st it reads as a new sound.
Mix: keep UI cues 12–20 dB under dialog/music (≈ −18 LUFS target).
Ducking: ramp the video row down 6–10 dB under cues, 100–250 ms ramps.

Text

Font

Font size42 px

Weight600

Text color

Outline2.0 px

Position

Vertical88%

Horizontal50%

Max width80%

Position is a percentage of the video frame, so subtitles stay put at any export size.

Background

Solid background

Background color

Background opacity70%

Background padding14 px

Corner radius6 px

Animation

Animate in

Rise distance44 px

Word duration260 ms

Lead-in110 ms

Each word fades up from below into place as it's spoken. Rise distance is measured on a 1080p frame; word duration is how long one word takes to land. Lead-in starts the rise early so the word has arrived by the moment it's said. Raise it if the words still feel late.

Opacity

Master opacity100%

With no keyframes the master value holds for the whole clip. Add keyframes to fade the subtitles out and back, handy when other text is already on screen. Values ramp linearly between keyframes.

Lines

Timing offset0 ms

In time300 ms

Out time300 ms

Fade300 ms

In time brings a line up before its first word; out time keeps it on screen after its last. Each end fades over the fade time. Lines meet in the middle of any gap, so two are never up at once; on tightly packed speech the hold shortens itself rather than overlapping.

Click any line to edit its wording. Timings come from the transcription. Drag the offset negative to pull every line earlier, positive to push it later.

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