Hi,

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