Colour, sound, text & effects

The finishing tools live in the same window as the cut, so you can grade a shot, fix its sound and title it without leaving the timeline.

Colour

Dragon VE with look presets in the library and a histogram and luma waveform in the inspector
Looks in the Library, scopes in the Inspector.
  • Looks: drag a look (Anime, Grade, Film, Punch…) onto a clip, or select a clip and press Apply to selected clip.
  • Colour wheels, curves and LUTs for lift, gamma and gain; Match color to reference matches one shot to another.
  • Scopes: histogram, luma or RGB-parade waveform and vectorscope, computed on the GPU.
  • Shift+B bypasses the grade so you can compare before and after.
  • HSL qualifiers and masks limit a grade or effect to part of the frame.

Audio

The Audio workspace with a track mixer and the master peak limiter
The Audio workspace: a fader per track and the master limiter.
  • Clip levels and fades on the timeline; a fader, mute and solo per track in the mixer.
  • Denoise, noise gate, EQ, compression, de-essing, reverb, pan and stereo width per clip.
  • Auto-ducking lowers music under dialogue.
  • A master peak limiter and a loudness target for each platform (set in the Inspector's Project tab).
  • A library of sound effects for whooshes, impacts and UI sounds.

Titles and text

A title selected on the viewer with its handles, and the Text tab of the inspector
Select a title to move it on the viewer and style it in the Text tab.
  • Any installed font, size, weight, tracking and leading; stroke (several stacked), gradient fill, glow, shadow, box and highlight.
  • Styled runs inside one title, text on a path and 3D extrusion.
  • Reveal and idle animations by character, word or line, with keyframes for every value.
  • Typography presets and lower thirds; Save as Template… keeps your own.

Captions

Captions → Auto-caption timeline transcribes speech on your machine and turns it into caption clips you can restyle in one go. You can also import and export SRT files.

Lyric Scene

A lyric scene turns song lyrics into a kinetic-typography video in one clip. Every line gets its own layout, entrance, hold and exit, on a style's colours, fonts, decoration and camera — 140 layouts and 24 built-in styles. Paste the lyrics or take them from a caption track, then re-roll, lock or force a layout line by line in the Lyrics tab.

Lyric scene frame: Lyrics that move Lyric scene frame: 140 layouts in rotating 3D letters Lyric scene frame: 24 styles

The Lyric Scene engine is a Rust port of JIZURA by hakoniwa (MIT License, © 2026 hakoniwa), plus a few parts of Dragon VE's own.

Effects, masks and compositing

  • Blurs, glows, distortions, film grain, halftone, chromatic aberration, light leaks and more — drag them from the Library and tune them in the Inspector.
  • Rectangle, ellipse and drawn path masks (P on the viewer), with feather and keyframes; a mask can apply to a single effect.
  • Blend modes, subject cutouts and text behind a subject; motion tracking to pin graphics to the scene.
  • Generated layers: shapes, elements, VFX and an audio visualizer.
  • A preset library of transitions, typography, elements and motion you can drop in and adjust.