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Styling Controls
How to style your video with fonts, colors, and more.
Changing text, highlight, and background colors
Note: Advanced styling options are only available on the Premium plan and above. Learn more on our pricing page. By default, the colors in your video will reflect the palette from the template that you've chosen. On the Premium plan and above, you can pick your own! When choosing colors, you can select a color palette as a starting point, and then click into individual colors to enter the hex code of your desired color or play around with the colour gradi
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Why are my video colors different than what they should be?
If you're seeing colors that don't match what's showing in the Style tab, it's likely because something called hardware acceleration is turned off in your browser. Hardware acceleration is a fancy way of saying that sometimes software (like Lumen5) may need to tell a physical part of your computer (hardware) to do a particular task if that task can be done faster by that part of your computer. This allows the software to run more efficiently if the hardware does some of the heavy lifting- i.e.
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Brand Kits
Note: Brand Kits are available for the Premium subscription and beyond. Brand kits make it easy to bring your brand colors and watermark into any template with just a click! Setting Up Brand Kits To get started, go to your dashboard and click Brand Kits in the left side menu. When you get to the homepage, click New Brand +, and you will see this: Brand Kits include the
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Selecting a font
Note: Advanced styling options are available on Premium plans and above. Learn more on our pricing page. You'll find a list of fonts to choose from in a dropdown menu under the Style tab. You can choose a different typeface for the primary and secondary text, and the font you choose will be applied to your entire video across all your slides. Bus
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Text highlight
When in text editing mode, simply click-and-drag your mouse cursor to select important keywords, then click on the button to apply a highlight color to the selected words. Want to highlight more than one chunk of words? You can do that! Jump back into text editing mode, highlight some more text, and click Highlight once again. To remove it, select the text you'd like to remove the highlight from, and click the clear highlight button. ${frame}[Highlighting](
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Uploading your logo as a watermark
Watermark feature is available for users on the Lumen5 Business Plan and above. You can upload your logo and use it as a watermark which will appear in the corner throughout your video. You'll find this option under the Style tab in the Watermark section. You'll also have the ability to adjust the opacity and positioning of the watermark. ![]
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Uploading your own custom outro
Custom outro is available for users on the Lumen5 Business Plan and above. The outro scene is the last slide of your video and serves as an ending sequence. The default style allows you to upload a logo and display a line of text as a call-to-action. To use your own custom outro, scroll down to the very bottom of your slides to find the outro section. Select the Layouts tab on the right side, then select the "Use your own outro" option. Once that's applied,
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How do I select a scene design?
You can select a new scene design for any scene by clicking on the Swap Scene Design button, located on the right of your scene: When you create a new scene by clicking on the green Add scene button, the scene selector comes up automatically! You can preview all of your options inside the selector, and click on a design to apply it to the scene in focus. ![](https://storage.crisp
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What size should the logo for my outro be?
The outro feature will resize the logo that you upload so that it best fits! To make the best use of that space, try uploading images that are as close as possible to the following dimensions: Landscape: 1000 x 312 Square: 800 x 312 Vertical: 800 x 555
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Adjusting the brightness
To adjust the brightness of an image or video, click directly on the media. You'll see a media controls menu appear near the top of your scene, much like the text editing menu. Look for the sun icon and click on it: From there you can use the slider to adjust the brightness of your image or video!
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Custom font upload
Custom font upload is available for users on the Lumen5 Business Plan and above. You can upload your own custom font under the Style tab on the right of the font selection dropdown. Click on the upload button and select the font file from your computer in either TTF or OTF file format. You can also save this custom font as a part of your [saved template.](https://intercom.help
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Creating an outro scene
The outro scene is the last slide of your video and serves as an ending sequence. This is where you can display your logo and a call to action. Scroll down to the very bottom of your slides to find the outro section. Click on the Layouts tab to view the different options and select the one that works for you- a logo, a call to action, or both! If you're on the Business plan, you'll also have the option to use your own custom outro. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/4d2a3f7b
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Image panning animation
You can use both images and videos to build your Lumen5 videos. To help prevent a series of images from looking like a static slideshow, we automatically apply a panning animation to add movement to offer a dynamic feel. This movement animation is often referred to as the ken burns effect. This animation is only applied to images and will not be applied to video backgrounds. The animation direction is currently randomized, but you can change or remove the animation in the "more options" menu.
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Turning off the outro scene
The outro scene is the last slide of your video and serves as an ending sequence. This is where you can upload your logo but this scene is optional and can be turned off. Scroll down to the very bottom of your slides to find the outro section. Select "Hide Outro" to turn off the outro scene. 