caption-templates
Installation
SKILL.md
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
- 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.
- No style at all is a valid answer. If the user just says "add captions" with no aesthetic intent, call
add_captionswith nostyle/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). - 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.
- 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_timelineand confirm it actually resolved instead of silently falling back to a default. - Always verify. After
add_captionsorupdate_text, runinspect_timelineon a frame inside the caption range and actually look at it.