# 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](https://docs.usebetterapps.com/betteredits/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](https://docs.usebetterapps.com/betteredits/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](https://docs.usebetterapps.com/betteredits/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](https://docs.usebetterapps.com/betteredits/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.