caption-templates

Palmier Pro caption templates

Caption styling is where an agent most easily produces something ugly: it pairs a font with a size that doesn't suit it, picks a neon color that fights the footage, or stacks an outline + background + shadow that no editor would ship. This skill replaces that guesswork with a default. Every value below was read out of a real Palmier project and confirmed against rendered frames.

Hard rules

1. Pick exactly one template. Paste its config verbatim. Do not blend two templates, do not "improve" a color, do not add an outline or background a template doesn't have.
2. No style at all is a valid answer. If the user just says "add captions" with no aesthetic intent, call add_captions with no style / animation / transform — the app's own default is clean and correct. Reach for a template only when the user signals a look ("bold", "podcast", "TikTok", "make them pop", "match my brand", names a vibe).
3. Match orientation. Vertical templates are authored for 1080×1920, horizontal for 1920×1080. Using the wrong set gives text that is comically large or unreadably small — see Porting across canvas sizes.
4. Fonts outside this catalog are fair game — but verify them. Palmier's font list is far larger than the 13 families used here; this catalog is a curated slice, not the available set. Set whatever font the user asks for. What doesn't change: after setting an unfamiliar font, render a frame with inspect_timeline and confirm it actually resolved instead of silently falling back to a default.
5. Always verify. After add_captions or update_text, run inspect_timeline on a frame inside the caption range and actually look at it.

Workflow

- [ ] 1. get_timeline — canvas width/height, fps, which track has speech
- [ ] 2. Pick ONE template from the picker below (or none — see rule 2)
- [ ] 3. add_captions with that template's exact block
- [ ] 4. inspect_timeline mid-caption — confirm it renders as described
- [ ] 5. Report the template name you used