Change aspect before you caption
Change aspect, then burn captions. Type burned on 16:9 sits in the wrong place after a 9:16 crop.
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Bluesky has no AI overlay chrome
Bluesky draws no Shorts-style AI overlay. Captions and safe-area still matter; the keep-out is the player, not a sparkle.
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End screens steal the caption zone
YouTube end screens cover the last seconds. Captions in that band get stolen. Yield the type or raise it.
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Top captions vs bottom captions
Bottom hits TikTok and Reels chrome; top can hit the username. Test both on a phone. Default bottom is a collision, not a spec.
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Captions should not cover the SKU
Move the type, do not crop the label. Safe area plus pack-shot: the carton is the product. Captions sit somewhere else.
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QC captions on a phone, not a monitor
Contrast, CPS and safe area only show up at 9:16 in hand. A desktop timeline will approve a miss the feed will swipe.
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Stories captions sit higher than Reels
Story chrome (reply bar, stickers) eats the bottom. Place type higher than you would on Reels.
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Check a video before you publish it
Before you upload: confirm ratio, safe-area, captions, AI label, and SKU spelling on the finished file. The generate is not the check.
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Pinterest video is not Reels chrome
Idea Pin safe-area is not TikTok’s caption zone. Recrop the type. A 9:16 Reel master is not a Pinterest-native video pin.
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Check safe area before you caption
Preview TikTok, Reels, and Shorts chrome — including YouTube’s May 2026 AI overlay — then burn captions.
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Resize 9:16 after a 16:9 generate
Generate 9:16 when you can. If you already have 16:9, crop a vertical strip and keep caption safe-area.
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Shorts overlay labels steal caption space
YouTube's Shorts AI overlay sits on the picture. Keep burned captions out of that zone or the label will cover the line.
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Generate Caption Post Collection Loop
Studio habit: generate a plate, mute captions, safe-area check, post or schedule, then save keepers to a collection. Agent can run it from a brief.
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A lower third is not a caption track
Name and title cards are graphics. Speech captions are a timed transcript. They fight for the same safe area; stack them and both fail.
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Safe area: TikTok vs Reels vs Shorts
Three chromes, one 9:16 file. Keep captions out of the bottom ~200px and YouTube Shorts’ May 2026 AI overlay. Recheck; chrome moves.
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Why captions stay at two lines
Three lines collide with TikTok, Reels and Shorts chrome. The two-line cap is safe area, not a taste rule. Split the cue; do not shrink the type.
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Safe area for TikTok captions
TikTok UI eats the bottom and sides. Caption safe area is not optional if the line is the hook.
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Bingo halls: Ideogram owns the board, not Veo
The called board is type; overlay jackpot and session time; a generated caller is a presenter you did not hire.
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