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Add 3D captions to a vertical talking-head video
PandaStudio's 3D captions turn a 5 to 20 second talking-head moment into a shot where the camera flies between you and the words, with captions set at different depths and a key word tucked behind your head, on 9:16 Shorts as well as 16:9.
3D captions are made by the AI from your own footage, person cutout and transcript, then rendered on your computer and placed over the chosen range as one full-frame overlay. The camera whips in, moves between groups of words placed at different depths, hides a hero word behind your head, can turn a ring of words in front of you and ends on a staircase of words. The timeline's audio plays underneath, and the editor's normal captions are hidden over that range so they don't cover the 3D words. It works on 16:9 and on vertical 9:16 videos (also 1:1 and 4:5): in a vertical video it builds from the crop the Short shows, stacks short lines below the chin and keeps everything inside the area the platform's buttons don't cover. There are two styles: Bold (heavy sans hero words in a strong accent colour) and Editorial (italic serif hero words in cream and gold), with a film finish on by default. It is for a hook moment, not a whole video: one range of 5 to 20 seconds inside one clip, at normal speed, from a steady medium shot. A moving or handheld camera or an extreme close-up is refused because the result would look wrong. It needs a transcript. There is no panel for it: ask the AI. Running it again over the same range replaces the earlier version, and you can delete the overlay on the timeline to remove it.
In the app
- 1Transcribe the video and make your cuts first.
- 2Open the AI tab (or the round chat button) in the editor.
- 3Ask for 3D captions on a moment, for example the first 10 seconds, and name a style or hero words if you want.
- 4Wait while it renders, then play the range. The 3D captions sit on the timeline as one overlay.
- 5To remove them, select that overlay on the timeline and delete it.
Ask the AI
Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.
CLI & MCP
Every capability is a verb, reachable from the terminal or from an MCP agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Desktop).
pandastudio project.add-3d-captions --id=$ID --startMs=0 --endMs=9000 --style=bold --heroWords=money,time
Runs as a job (job.wait). 5-20 s inside one clip, start and end on a pause. style bold (default) or editorial; accent takes a hex colour; grade (film finish) and hideCaptions default to true. Remove with project.remove-region --regionType=overlay --regionId=<overlayId>.