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Reuse a caption style across a video (and the next one)

Save a finished animated caption group in DaVinci Resolve with its places, fonts and animation, and apply the same look to any other group with ROKLIM.

You spend time on one group until it looks right — the sizes, the colours, a custom Fusion node, the animation. Then the next forty groups need the same look. ROKLIM's Premade layouts save that finished group once and apply it to any other group.

What a preset keeps

  • where each row sits and the gaps between words and rows;
  • for every word, its whole Fusion composition — font, size, colour, hand-made nodes and animation;
  • how many words each row had.

The words themselves are not stored: applying a preset keeps the text of the group you apply it to.

Save a finished group

  1. Put the playhead on the group you like.
  2. Layout → Premade Layout → type a name → Save from group.
  3. Tick Export preview to render a small preview next to the preset, so you can recognise it in the catalog (Local).

Apply it to another group

  1. Put the playhead on the next group.
  2. Pick the preset and check which row each word goes to.
  3. Apply — with Apply with animation on, each word gets the saved composition of its place.
  4. Adjust Gap, Size and Offset per row, or drag words on the small picture.
  5. Undo brings the group back exactly as it was.

Tips

  • Save presets per format: one for 9:16 talking heads, one for 16:9 interviews.
  • Presets are small .json files — keep them in a shared folder so the whole team uses the same looks.

Details: Premade layouts documentation.

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Updated 2026-10-24 · Questions: hello@roklim.com, Discord or Instagram