diff --git a/src/api/media_api.rs b/src/api/media_api.rs
index de70069..607ed84 100644
--- a/src/api/media_api.rs
+++ b/src/api/media_api.rs
@@ -395,24 +395,22 @@ async fn trace_video(
 
     // Build drawtext entries
     let mut parts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
-    let bh = _height as i32;
 
-    // Bottom-left info panel (y=h-N positions from bottom up)
-    // Frame/time (colons must be escaped as \: for ffmpeg filter parser)
+    // Top-left info panel
+    // Frame/time at the top
     parts.push(format!(
-        "drawtext=text='Frame %{{n}}  %{{pts}}':fontsize=14:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y={}",
-        bh - 30
+        "drawtext=text='Frame %{{n}}  %{{pts}}':fontsize=28:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y=12"
     ));
     parts.push(format!(
-        "drawtext=text='Cut\\: {}':fontsize=14:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y={}", cut_id, bh - 52
+        "drawtext=text='Cut\\: {}':fontsize=28:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y=56", cut_id
     ));
     parts.push(format!(
-        "drawtext=text='{}':fontsize=14:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y={}", file_uuid, bh - 74
+        "drawtext=text='{}':fontsize=28:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y=100", file_uuid
     ));
 
     // Per-trace entries: show trace_id, start_frame, identity name
-    // Stack upward from y=bh-96
-    let mut y_pos = bh - 96;
+    // Position starts at y=144, increments by 44 per trace
+    let mut y_pos = 144;
     for (tid, frames) in &sorted_traces {
         let start = frames.iter().min().unwrap_or(&first_frame);
         let identity = trace_identity.get(tid).map(|s| s.as_str()).unwrap_or("unknown");
@@ -422,10 +420,10 @@ async fn trace_video(
         let enable = format!("between(n,{},{})", frames[0] as i64 - frame_offset, frames[frames.len() - 1] as i64 - frame_offset);
 
         parts.push(format!(
-            "drawtext=text='{}':fontsize=14:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y={}:enable='{}'",
+            "drawtext=text='{}':fontsize=24:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:x=10:y={}:enable='{}'",
             label, y_pos, enable
         ));
-        y_pos -= 22;
+        y_pos += 44;
     }
 
     // Bounding boxes: interpolated (thickness=1) + actual (thickness=4) with trace_id label
@@ -447,8 +445,8 @@ async fn trace_video(
                     x, y, w, h, n, n
                 ));
                 parts.push(format!(
-                    "drawtext=text='{}':x={}:y={}:fontsize=16:fontcolor=green:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.5:enable='between(n,{},{})'",
-                    tid, x + 2, y + 2, n, n
+                    "drawtext=text='{}':x={}:y={}:fontsize=28:fontcolor=green:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.5:enable='between(n,{},{})'",
+                    tid, x + 4, y + 4, n, n
                 ));
             }
         }