Light rounded pill, unspoken words dimmed

Dark semibold rounded sans inside a soft light-grey pill, up to four words, with words yet to be spoken greyed out and darkening as they land. Educational, study and reflective vlogs that need an unobtrusive caption chip.

Add word-timed captions to my video in this style: "Light rounded pill, unspoken words dimmed" from the 24fps video editor library.
Preset JSON: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/captions/light-pill-dim-ahead-words/preset.json (pass its "preset" to the engine; its "script" is demo text).
Engine (MIT, no dependencies, ES module): https://24fps.dev/editor/engine.js. Download the engine next to your page (curl -O) rather than importing cross-origin, then import { mount } from "./engine.js" in a <script type="module"> served over http.
Wiring: root = a position:relative box at the video's size. media = { main }: main is a wrapper holding my video, filling the root. Then const fx = mount(root, { kind: "captions", preset, script: words, media }) and call fx.render(seconds) every frame. It is seek-safe: drive it from the GSAP timeline in HyperFrames or call render(frame / fps) in Remotion. Before capturing frames, await (fx.ready ?? document.fonts.ready). Check it on my footage: if text is hidden behind the subject or doesn't read against my colours, nudge the layer positions or colours.
Transcribe my audio to word timestamps first (e.g. Whisper with word timestamps) and pass words as [{ w, s, e, emph }] with s/e in seconds; set emph: true on words to stress. A plain string also works (evenly timed, *word* = emphasis).
Field reference: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/llms.txt. Keep sizes as fractions of the frame height so it works at any resolution. Credit: 24fps.dev/video-editor
Same idea
Also called: Paper II (AI Edit)
Technique
Caption chip with progressive darkening of words as they are spoken.
Footage
Man talking and gesturing, Pexels

Similar caption styles