Intros & openers

The first frame is what X, LinkedIn and iMessage show before anyone presses play. Kapture gives you two one-step tools for owning it.

Add an intro from a file

Open the Video tab (⌘2) with nothing selected:

Pick an image or a video and Kapture does the whole dance: everything on the timeline slides right, the file lands at 0:00 sized to the full frame, and the playhead jumps there so you see it immediately.

• Image duration is the field above the button — the default 0.5s is enough to register as the platform’s preview frame without delaying your video. A video intro keeps its own length.
• The intro is a real clip: trim it, swap it, animate it, delete it like anything else. What you preview is exactly what exports.
• Changing your mind about length later is one edit — type a new number in its Duration field and the rest of the timeline follows automatically.

Use a moment from the video as the opener

Sometimes the best opener already exists at minute three. Select the clips that make that moment (a single clip is enough — linked camera and audio come along), open the command palette (⇧⌘K) and run “Use selection as opener”.

The block is copied to the very start; everything else slides right. Captions and zooms replay over the copy automatically, because they follow the footage, not the position.

If the moment is mid-clip, split at its edges first (T), then select the slice.

Which one, when

You want…	Use
A designed thumbnail/poster frame	Add intro with an image, 0.5s
A title card that holds	Add intro with an image, 2–3s
A cold open of the best moment	Use selection as opener
A pre-made bumper video	Add intro with the video file