Settings
The six tabs of the Settings window and what each one holds.
Open Settings with ⌘,. It has six tabs.
Account
Your name and email, the plan line, the credit balance, and this Mac's name. Buttons: Manage account, Buy credits, See usage, Connected Macs, Sign out. What a credit buys lists the rate of every charged feature. See Account.
Transcription
| Setting | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Language | en, es, multi, … | en |
| Max words per bar | 1 to 12 | 4 |
| Max bar duration | 1 to 8 s | 3 s |
| Split on pauses longer than | 0.2 to 2 s | 0.7 s |
The bar rules decide how a transcript is split into bars. After changing them, use Re-split in a subtitles track's panel. See Captions.
Keywords
Names, brands and jargon sent with the audio so they are transcribed correctly. Type one and click Add; select one and click Remove. Append :2 to a term to boost it, as in Acme:2.
Subtitle Styles
The caption styles, with a live 9:16 preview on the left and the editor on the right. The preview has its own Guides menu. Select a style in the list to edit it.
| Section | Fields |
|---|---|
| Name | The style's name and Use as default for new subtitle tracks |
| Text | Font, Size (24 to 120 pt), color, Uppercase, Letter spacing, Max width |
| Background | On or off, color, Opacity, Corner radius, Padding |
| Shadow | On or off, Strength, Softness |
| Outline | On or off, Width, color |
The buttons add a style, duplicate or delete the selected one, and Set Default. Add Preset brings back one of the built-in styles; Reset to Presets replaces the whole list with them.
Text Styles
The text favorites, in the same editor. Use for new texts marks the default, which dresses new texts. Drag to reorder; the order is the order of the Apply menu in the text sidebar. See Text.
AI
What Clone Reel does and what it costs, then Fetching: Log in with (None, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Safari) chooses a browser whose cookies yt-dlp uses for posts that need a login, and two rows show where yt-dlp and ffmpeg were found or say they are not installed. See Clone Reel.
Files on disk
Transcription rules, caption styles and text favorites are saved in the open workspace as settings/transcription.json, settings/caption-styles.json and settings/text-styles.json. Edits to those files are picked up while the app runs. Without a workspace they live in this Mac's preferences.