Small sounds under the words — a pop when a key word lands, a whoosh when a line flies in — make captions feel alive. Placing them by hand means lining up a sound with every Text+ clip. ROKLIM's SFX module does it for a whole video: it reads where your words are and puts a sound under each one you choose.
What decides which word gets a sound
- Clip colour. Give each colour a sound: for example the key row (Big) gets a pop, the other rows get nothing or a soft click. Layout can colour the clips for you by row.
- The word itself. Word → Sound gives particular words their own sound — "money" gets a cash register, "boom" gets a hit.
- Adjustment clips. Effects that VFX placed at markers can get a sound too (Adjustment sounds).
Step by step
- Open ROKLIM → SFX and choose your sounds folder.
- Where the words are: the video tracks with your Text+ clips.
- Where the sounds go: the first audio track to use and how many tracks may be used when sounds overlap.
- Time range: mark it with I / O in Resolve — ROKLIM reads the marks by itself (or tick Selected clips only).
- For each colour pick a sound — Web and Local open the catalog so you can listen first — its audio track, and where on the clip it lands: Start, Mid or End.
- Press RUN (color). Then open Word → Sound for word-specific sounds.
Offset moves sounds a few frames into the word — a sound at Start lands slightly later, a sound at End slightly earlier — which often feels more natural than exactly on the cut.
Picking sounds
- Short, quiet, consistent sounds work best under text — the voice stays in front.
- Use one sound per role: the same pop for every key word makes the rhythm readable.
- The ROKLIM SFX pack — clicks, pops, whooshes, bass and hits — is on the Audio page. It is third-party / public material; check the original license before commercial use.
More settings: SFX documentation.