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Highlights

Highlights are colored overlays you place on script pages to mark important areas. They're the most basic annotation type in ScriptMagic — use them to mark lines, flag sections, add text notes, or redact content.

Creating a highlight

  1. Make sure your desired layer is selected as the active layer
  2. Click and drag on the script page to draw a rectangular highlight
  3. The highlight is created with the color and style of your active layer

Highlight types

  • Basic — A colored rectangle. The most common type for marking lines, sections, or areas of interest.
  • Text — A highlight that contains editable text. Double-click to type inside it. See also Notes.
  • Blackout — A solid black rectangle for redacting or covering content.
  • Whiteout — A solid white rectangle with a light border for covering content.
  • Warning / Standby — Specialized boxes for cue warnings and standbys. These auto-layout to avoid overlapping and suppress duplicate headings when stacked. Colors and styling are configured globally by site admins.
  • DCA marker — A circular numbered marker (1–16) used for sound cue assignments. See Sound DCA Layers.

Highlight types — basic, text, blackout, whiteout, and warning/standby examples on a script page

Editing a highlight

  • Move — Click and drag a highlight to reposition it
  • Resize — Select a highlight, then drag the corner handles to resize
  • Edit text — Double-click a text highlight to open the inline text editor
  • Edit properties — Click the edit icon on a selected highlight to change its settings

Text styling

Text highlights support:

  • Font family and font size
  • Bold, italic, and underline
  • Text color
  • Background color and opacity

Tip

Text styling is configured per layer, so all highlights on the same layer share a consistent look by default. You can customize this in layer styling.

Per-highlight format overrides

Individual highlights can override their layer's default styling. Click the format button on a selected highlight to open the format dialog, where you can adjust:

  • Color and opacity — override the layer's highlight color
  • Border — toggle a border and set its color and strength
  • Text color, font, and size — for text highlights and cue text boxes
  • Bold, italic, underline — text formatting overrides

Overridden properties are visually distinguished in the dialog. A badge shows the number of active overrides. You can reset individual properties or all overrides at once.

Per-highlight format override — color, border, and text override dialog

Deleting a highlight

Select a highlight and click the red X button, or press Delete/Backspace while it's selected.

Permissions

You can only edit or delete highlights on layers you have edit access to. Highlights on read-only layers can be viewed but not modified. See Understanding Layers for details on layer permissions.