How to make your captions move out of the way when a pop-up appears
Tell Vizard Agent which on-screen elements are the point of the clip and it will treat the caption position as something that changes rather than something that is set once. The text moves when a pop-up, comment panel or banner needs the space, and returns to its normal place when the space is free again.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the elements and rank them against each other. "Keep the captions readable" and "keep the pop-ups fully visible" are both perfectly reasonable requests that happen to conflict in a vertical frame, so tell Vizard Agent which of the two gives way when they collide.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A vertical clip has one comfortable place for captions, and every other element wants that space too. Subtitle-safe space is not a fixed band: it is whatever is left after the face and the pop-ups take what they need, so the caption work comes after the panels are settled. In the session behind this article it:
- Reviewed every pop-up in the vertical layout, checked a promo banner's outline against the original and checked the comment panel for a leftover edge.
- Removed the layers sitting behind the panels, which leave a faint rim of the old graphic, so the panels read as clean.
- Found where subtitles could sit without covering faces or pop-ups, and checked the subtitle-safe space in each selected moment.
- Added headlines and word-timed subtitles that move when a pop-up appears, tuning their size and spacing so the text stayed readable without covering the evidence.
- Gave the captions more room below the speaker's mouth and verified the spacing across every clip in the set.
When does this not work well?
Some frames have no spare room. If a pop-up fills the width and the speaker fills the rest, the captions have nowhere to go, and the honest choices are a smaller panel, a shorter caption, or no caption over that moment. Pop-ups that move change the safe space every frame, and accessibility rules may require captions to stay put.
Common questions
Will they jump about? Not if you say so. Vizard Agent can hold one position across a run of moments.
What if the pop-up fills the frame? Then Vizard Agent tells you rather than putting the caption on top of it.
What is the leftover edge? A rim of an older layer behind the panel. Vizard Agent removes it.