This looks to be a CapCut timeline/playback issue, not necessarily a problem with your actual Shorts video.

If the playhead itself jumps forward while previewing, CapCut is likely skipping/caching incorrectly or the timeline has an edit/speed setting causing a jump.

Try these in order:

1. Check the timeline around the exact jump

   • Zoom into the timeline.

   • Look for a cut, gap, split, freeze-frame, speed change, or transition at the point where it jumps.

   • Make sure the video clips actually connect with no unintended gap.

2. Check Speed

   • Select the clip.

   • Go to Speed → Normal.

   • Make sure there isn't a speed curve/keyframe causing the footage to jump.

3. Check Freeze / Frame Hold

   • Look immediately before the jump for a Freeze segment or unusually short clip.

   • Delete it if it was added accidentally.

4. Preview from an earlier point

   • Move the playhead several seconds before the problem.

   • Play again.

   • If it consistently jumps at exactly the same timeline position, there's probably an edit/timeline setting there.

5. Clear CapCut's cache / restart

   • Save the project.

   • Completely close CapCut and reopen it.

   • If available in your version, clear CapCut's cache, then reopen the project.

6. Export a short test

   • Export only a section containing the problem.

   • If the exported MP4 plays normally, it's just CapCut's preview rendering.

   • If the export also freezes and jumps, there's an actual timeline/clip issue that needs fixing.

If the playhead moves forward while the image freezes, rather than the playhead staying still, that strongly suggests CapCut is dropping/skipping frames during preview.

If the playhead actually jumps to a later timeline position, then we should inspect the edit/speed/freeze settings at that exact point.

I have observed that CapCut can sometimes remove/delist an effect or caption template, rather than simply being hidden in your account.

CapCut’s own current help documentation says that previously available AI effects/templates can disappear because of content updates, licensing changes, technical changes, or platform optimization.

It specifically says that when an effect has been removed from CapCut’s servers, it can disappear from Recently Used, Favorites, and search, even if you used it before.

That makes your situation particularly frustrating because you have lost it from both Caption Templates and Text Effects, and even your old projects no longer give you access to it.

Before giving up, I would try these in this order

1. Do not uninstall CapCut or clear its app data/cache yet.
   If there is any locally cached information about the old projects/effect, you don't want to erase it while troubleshooting.

2. Make sure you're signed into exactly the same CapCut account.
   Check this first when a previously available template disappears.

3. Update CapCut, then completely restart it.
   Older templates/effects can disappear or become inaccessible after changes to the app, while newer versions can restore compatibility.

4. Try the same old project on another device, preferably the phone where you originally created it.
   Test on another device to determine whether the disappearance is device-specific.

5. Try searching the template/effect by its name or any distinctive keyword you remember.
   CapCut's current template search is available on mobile and Web, although availability varies by platform and region.

6. Most importantly: duplicate one of your old projects before experimenting further.
   If the old project still contains the visual effect, you may be able to preserve/export it even if the original template is gone.

The good news about your screenshot

From the screenshot, I can see exactly why you'd want to recover it: the look isn't just a generic caption. It's a bold, clean white caption with a selected phrase highlighted in yellow, positioned prominently across the footage.

That's distinctive enough that we can probably recreate the appearance very closely even if CapCut has permanently delisted the original.

And there's an important distinction: If CapCut removed the underlying template/effect from its servers, you probably cannot restore that original asset through the Caption Templates/Text Effects menus.

CapCut explicitly says that delisted effects can disappear from the menus and that you may no longer be able to reapply them to new clips.

But that doesn't mean you have to lose the aesthetic. We can reproduce the caption as a normal text setup including the white/yellow word highlighting, font weight, sizing, spacing, position, and animation and then turn that into your own reusable workflow.

This is very reproducible in CapCut even if the original preset has disappeared.

Your caption has four key characteristics:

• Font: a heavy geometric sans-serif, very close to Montserrat ExtraBold/Bold.

• Main text: white.

• Emphasis: one word/phrase changes to a bright golden yellow roughly #F7B900.

• Layout: one centered line, fairly large, with tight spacing.

• No visible outline or shadow; the strong weight itself provides the readability.

• The highlighted word changes from caption to caption, which makes it look like a dynamic caption preset rather than manually designed text.

CapCut currently supports changing the font, color, spacing, alignment and animation of text, so you can rebuild this without relying on the missing preset.

The easiest way to recreate it

1. Generate your captions normally

In your project:

Captions → Auto Captions

Generate the transcript.

Then select a caption and go into its Style/Text controls.

2. Set the base style

Try these settings first:

Font:
Montserrat ExtraBold
(or the closest heavy geometric sans-serif available)

Color:
#FFFFFF

Size:
Start around 10–13% of the video height and adjust visually.

Alignment:
Center

Letter spacing:
Very slightly negative/neutral — approximately 0 to -2 if CapCut exposes that control.

Stroke:
None

Shadow:
None, or extremely subtle if the footage requires it.

Your screenshot is particularly clean because the letters aren't surrounded by a conspicuous outline.

3. Recreate the yellow emphasis

For the word you want emphasized — e.g. architecture — change that word to:

Yellow: approximately #F7B900

So the caption becomes:

the city's → white
architecture → yellow
is stunning → white

That is the defining part of the look.

CapCut's current text system supports independent customization of text color and formatting, and its text-effect library still includes highlight-oriented styles.

4. The important part: make the yellow word follow the speech

This is where I'd avoid trying to find another preset.

Instead, make the caption itself your reusable style.

If your version of CapCut lets you select individual words within an auto-caption block, simply select the emphasized word and change its color to yellow.

If it doesn't let you color individual words in your current version, use two/three caption layers:

Layer 1 — white:
the city's is stunning

Layer 2 — yellow:
architecture

Then position the yellow word exactly over where it occurs in the white caption and synchronize its duration with the spoken word.

It takes a little longer initially, but once you've established the positioning, you can duplicate the setup.

I'd actually recommend making your own permanent version

This is the part that will prevent you from being stuck like this again.

Make a tiny "MASTER CAPTION" project containing:

the city's architecture is stunning

with your exact font, size, position and colors.

Then save/duplicate that project rather than relying on a CapCut-provided caption preset.

So your workflow becomes:

MASTER CAPTION → Duplicate project → Replace footage/transcript → Change words → Done

That gives you control over the aesthetic rather than depending on CapCut continuing to host a particular preset.

One more thing I'd try first

Before rebuilding everything, search CapCut's current text-effect library for "highlight" and "text effect." CapCut still has a current highlight-text-effects category, although it doesn't mean your old preset is still there.

CapCut's current Text Effects library

It looks like region/eligibility change rather than a normal VPN problem. I was reading the CapCut’s current help documentation, and there are a few important points to notice from here.

In this document, CapCut explicitly says its AI features can be unavailable because the country/region is unsupported, and that region detection can use your IP location. It also says availability can depend on the account, platform, app version, and rollout status.

What I think is happening

Because:

• it worked for 3–4 months,

• you were consistently using a Singapore VPN,

• it suddenly stopped around 15 days ago,

• changing VPN servers/regions hasn't fixed it, and

• CapCut is specifically returning “This feature is currently unavailable in your country or region”,

I would not keep spending time cycling through VPN countries. That message strongly suggests CapCut's backend is making an eligibility/region decision that isn't based solely on the VPN IP.

The documentation shared above indicates that AI availability can involve regional restrictions and account-level eligibility.

Do these tests before changing anything else

1. Test CapCut Web

Sign into the same account at CapCut Web and try Create with AI → AI Video Maker. The web version can be used as an alternative when the desktop AI Video Maker isn't available.

CapCut AI Video Maker

This test is important because it tells us whether the problem is:

• account/region-wide, or

• limited to your desktop/mobile installation.

2. Test the same account on another device

Don't create a new account yet. Log into your existing CapCut account on another device and test the same AI feature.

If the error follows the account, that's strong evidence that this is account/region eligibility, rather than your computer or VPN.

3. Check whether other AI functions work

Try several AI functions rather than only the particular video generator you're using.

For example:

• AI Script-to-Video

• AI Image Generation

• AI Video Maker

• other generative AI tools

If all generative AI features produce the region error, the diagnosis becomes much clearer.

4. Update CapCut and sign out/in

Ensure the application is current and re-authenticate the account when AI features aren't available.

I would also test the web version in an incognito/private browser window.

One thing I would not do yet

Don't uninstall CapCut or clear/delete your local project data without first making a backup.

Since you said this is a very large project, protecting the project files should come before troubleshooting. If your project is synced to CapCut Cloud, verify that the important projects are actually synchronized before doing anything destructive.

Given that your feature worked for months and then stopped abruptly, the aforementioned investigation is probably more useful than trying another VPN.

I have been using CapCut’s AI video creation features for the past 3–4 months while connecting through a Singapore VPN. The features were working normally during this time, and I have been relying on them for a major project.

However, for the past 15 days, I have been receiving the following message whenever I try to use the AI video creation feature:

“This feature is currently unavailable in your country or region.”

I have already tried changing my VPN and connecting through different regions, but the same error continues to appear. I have also contacted CapCut Support multiple times over the past few weeks, but unfortunately, I have not received any response.

This is becoming a serious issue because I have a very large project that depends on these AI video creation features.

At this point, it’s become part of the aesthetic of my videos, and it was also a really useful part of my editing workflow. Is there any way to recover it?

Has this template been removed from CapCut app? If so, that’s incredibly frustrating. I’d really appreciate any advice on how to get it back.

Yes you can absolutely recreate this style in CapCut. The screenshot you shared is actually simpler than it looks.

The key effect is not really a typewriter effect. It’s more like progressive text highlighting:

• The entire sentence is already visible in a light gray.

• As the narration progresses, the words being spoken become dark/black.

• The black section moves forward through the sentence.

• The text stays in a clean serif font, with lots of whitespace.

• There’s very little other visual clutter.

The YouTube reference you gave is How Elon Works.

The easiest way to make it in CapCut

I recommend using two copies of the same text rather than trying to animate every individual word.

1. Create your background

Use an off-white background rather than pure white.

Something around:

#F7F6F2

or simply choose a very light warm gray/off-white.

2. Add your complete sentence in gray

For example:

This is my favorite part, and the main point, he would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in 10 years to

Make the entire text a light gray, approximately 30–40% opacity.

Use a serif font. Try fonts such as:

• Cormorant Garamond

• Libre Baskerville

• Playfair Display

• Bodoni-style fonts

• Times New Roman if you want something simple

I'd start with Cormorant Garamond for a look close to your screenshot.

Keep the text relatively large and let it wrap naturally into 3–5 lines.

3. Duplicate the text layer

Now duplicate that exact text layer.

Change the duplicate from gray → almost black.

Important: Don't change the font, size, line spacing, or position. The two copies need to line up perfectly.

You'll now have:

Bottom layer:
gray entire sentence

Top layer:
black entire sentence

4. Reveal the black layer from left → right

This is the important part.

You want the black version to progressively reveal itself over the gray version.

In CapCut, select the black text and experiment with the available Text Animation / In animations, particularly a wipe/reveal-style animation. CapCut currently has text-reveal and wipe-style templates/effects, so searching for those terms is useful.

If your version of CapCut doesn't give you a suitable text wipe, you can build the reveal using a mask and animate the mask position.

The visual result should be:

Beginning

This is my favorite part, and the main point...

with the beginning black and the rest gray.

Then:

This is my favorite part, and the main point, he would place...

with more of the sentence black.

Then:

This is my favorite part, and the main point, he would place this urgency that he expected...

And so on.

That gives you the exact "spoken words become black while upcoming words remain gray" feeling.

Even easier: split the sentence into chunks

If you're editing on CapCut mobile and the masking method becomes annoying, there's a very easy workaround.

Make separate text layers:

Layer 1

This is my favorite part,

Layer 2

and the main point,

Layer 3

he would place this urgency

Layer 4

that he expected

Layer 5

the revenue in 10 years to...

Set them all to gray.

Then duplicate each one and make the duplicates black.

Put the black versions on the timeline according to your voiceover.

Give each black layer a very short Fade In — around 0.1–0.2 seconds.

That will create a very clean documentary/video-essay style.

CapCut supports text animation presets as well as keyframes for properties such as opacity, position and scale, so you can fine-tune the timing rather than relying entirely on templates.

The timing is what makes this style look good

Don't make the words pop in dramatically.

The animation should be subtle.

For example, if your narration says:

"This is my favorite part, and the main point..."

your timeline might look like:

VOICEOVER
| This | is | my | favorite | part | and | the | main | point |

TEXT
|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████|

BLACK
|█████████████████████████████|

GRAY
                              |██████████████████████████|

As the voice reaches each word, the black region moves forward.

I'd use roughly 0.15–0.3 sec of transition rather than a noticeable animation.

One trick that makes it look much more professional

Don't highlight every single word individually.

Instead, let the black text move forward continuously or in 2–5 word chunks.

That makes it feel like intentional editorial typography rather than karaoke captions.

What about a CapCut template?

Yes. CapCut currently has dedicated collections for Text Reveal, Animated Typewriter, and Typewriter Text Animation templates.

• CapCut Text Reveal templates
• CapCut Typewriter Text Animation templates

However, I wouldn't use a generic typewriter template for this particular look. Those templates tend to make letters appear one-by-one, whereas your reference is much cleaner: the sentence exists first, and the spoken portion changes emphasis.

My recommended CapCut recipe

The biggest thing is the typography, not the animation. The reference works because the font is elegant, the background is almost blank, and the gray→black transition is extremely restrained.

Here’s the reference:

https://youtu.be/aStHTTPxlis?si=DaSVydNRW5v7waqF

Does anyone know the easiest way to recreate this effect in CapCut? Ideally, I’d love to know the steps or if there’s a template I can use.

Yes. What you're looking for is called a posterize time or frame hold effect where the video only updates a few times per second, instead of every frame. CapCut PC doesn't have a dedicated "Posterize Time" effect like After Effects, but there are a few ways to get a very similar result.

Method 1: Use Frame Interpolation

Some versions of CapCut PC have frame interpolation settings.

1. Select your clip.

2. Look for Interpolation, Frame Blending, or Motion in the video settings.

3. Set it to None or Nearest (if available).

This prevents CapCut from smoothing motion when frames are repeated.

Method 2: Export at a Lower FPS

This is the simplest method if you're okay with the whole video looking choppy.

• Edit normally.

• Export at 12 fps, 10 fps, or even 8 fps.

Typical looks:

• 15 fps – slightly choppy

• 12 fps – obvious stutter

• 8–10 fps – stop-motion feel

The downside is that everything in the export becomes low frame rate.

Method 3: Repeat Frames (Closest to "Torn Frames")

If you only want certain clips to look choppy:

1. Right-click the clip and freeze or split it into small pieces.

2. Duplicate or extend individual frames.

3. Hold each frame for 2–4 frames before advancing to the next.

For example, in a 60 fps project:

• Hold each unique frame for 5 frames → effective 12 fps

• Hold each unique frame for 6 frames → effective 10 fps

• Hold each unique frame for 8 frames → effective 7.5 fps

This is essentially what "Posterize Time" does.

Method 4: Speed + Frame Hold

If your clip is slow motion:

• Speed it up.

• Apply Freeze Frame at intervals.

• Alternate between short motion and held frames.

This creates a jerky, stylized animation similar to many anime edits.

Method 5: Search CapCut Effects

Some CapCut versions include effects with names like:

• Strobe

• Stop Motion

• Frame Skip

• Choppy Motion

• Low FPS

These are under Video Effects → Basic, Retro, or Distortion, depending on your version.

If You Want the Exact "Torn Frames" Motion

The movement in Torn Frames is likely just frame skipping/frame holding with the paper overlay added on top.

Unfortunately, CapCut doesn't let you disable only the torn-paper mask from that effect.

If you need that exact motion without the paper edges, your best options are:

• Recreate it manually with repeated frames (Method 3).

• Use another editor that has a true Posterize Time effect (such as After Effects, DaVinci Resolve with Fusion, or Blender's Video Sequence Editor), then bring the clip back into CapCut.

What is your project frame rate in CapCut—24 fps, 30 fps, or 60 fps?

The ideal settings to mimic the Torn Frames motion depend on the timeline FPS, and I can tell you exactly how many frames to hold for the look you're after.