Video themes

Vocal Video themes define the visual and motion style of your videos. A theme controls the overall look of your scenes, including typography, accents, transitions, color treatments, and background music.

Themes adapt to your account branding, so the same theme can look different depending on your logo, brand colors, and video content.

In this article:

Switch themes in the video editor

  1. Open a video in the Video Editor.
  2. Open the Design panel.
  3. Select Theme.
  4. Choose a theme to preview it on your video.
  5. Preview the video before publishing or republishing.

Changing the theme updates the whole video. You can still customize individual design settings after choosing a theme.

Preview Pro themes

Some themes, including Atlas, Sirius, Callisto, and Janus, are available only with Pro, Scale, and Enterprise plans. If you are on a Free or Essential plan, you can still preview these themes in the Video Editor before upgrading.

Theme examples

Each theme gives your video a different visual style. The best way to compare themes is to open a video in the editor, switch themes from Design > Theme, and watch the preview.

  • Europa is the default theme and includes Shaded and Flat styles. Europa Shaded uses gradients, while Europa Flat uses solid colors.
  • Atlas is designed for a more distinctive social media look.
  • Sirius leans into a futuristic feel.
  • Callisto is sleek and professional
  • Janus uses distinctive geometric elements.

Set a default theme

You can set a default theme for new video drafts in your default video settings.

  1. Go to Settings > Default Video Settings and Select the theme you want new drafts to use.
  2. Save your changes.

Changing the default theme affects new video drafts created after the change. It does not automatically update existing drafts or published videos. See Default Video Settings for more account-level defaults.

Customize a theme

Themes provide the starting design for a video, but you can still customize the final result.

In the Video Editor, use the Design panel to adjust settings such as colors, fonts, and other visual options. You can also adjust scene-specific settings from the Scene panel after selecting a scene.

You can make these changes on a single video, or update default video settings so future drafts start with your preferred combination of theme, fonts, colors, and audio settings.

For related controls, see Customizing Fonts in Videos, Galleries, and Cards, How to Adjust Audio Settings, and How to Change Video Format.

What themes control

Themes can affect:

  • Scene layouts and visual treatments
  • Typography and font pairings
  • Accent colors and color mapping
  • Motion graphics and transitions
  • Default background music

What themes do not control

Themes do not replace your content or publishing settings. You can still edit transcript text, captions, attribution, scene timing, music volume, format, thumbnail, and sharing settings separately.

For those workflows, see How to Edit Subtitles, Captions and Attribution, How to Edit Thumbnails in Published Videos, and How to Share and Embed Videos.

Tip: Duplicate a video before experimenting with themes if you want to compare several versions side by side or create separate versions for different distribution channels.