Add captions and a timer
A live line of text on screen — your name, a goal, or a countdown that actually ticks.
The text-and-timer layer draws a live line directly into the frame — a name, rules, a goal, or a "back soon" note — with an optional running clock built in.
Add it
Add a text-and-timer layer from the scene rail's "+" menu. The inspector holds the line itself, its color, an optional plate behind it, and the time mode:
- Elapsed — counts up from when the frame was composed.
- Countdown — counts down from minutes and seconds you set, and never goes below zero.
A placement token marks where the time is inserted into your line; without it, the time is appended to the end.
Token is Cyrillic in the product today
The current placeholder is the literal string {таймер} (Cyrillic), as written in the
source (app/products/stream/core/scene_layers.py) — documented here as it exists,
not as it should be. Type it exactly as shown, characters included.
The clock restarts when the frame does
The timer counts from the moment the frame was composed, not from when you first set it up — editing the scene, or your phone reconnecting, restarts it visibly. This is by design, not a bug.
How to verify it worked
The scene diagram draws the caption at the same size and color it'll have on air, so what you see there is what ships — no separate preview step needed.
What's next
Add a live viewer counter — the same token mechanism, for audience size instead of time.