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How to add captions to a video

Most people watch without sound. Captions are not an accessibility extra; they are the default experience.

You can burn captions into the picture or export a separate subtitle file. Burned-in captions always appear, which suits vertical feeds where the platform may not show a subtitle track. A separate .srt file is better for YouTube and anywhere the viewer might want to turn them off or read them in another language.

Because the app knows the script you were reading, the caption text is your actual words rather than a transcription that has guessed at them. That is a meaningful difference for names, jargon and anything a recogniser has not heard before.

Check the timing before you publish, particularly if you paused a lot. Removing the pauses first tightens the timing considerably, because the dead air comes out of both the video and the captions.

The Captions tab: a Burn in captions switch, a note that timings are estimated from the script, an Adjust timing button and an Export .srt button.
Captions are built from the script you read, and the app says plainly when the timings are estimated rather than measured.

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Captions

Burn captions into the video or export an .srt, with style controls and per-line timing.

Export subtitles as .srt

A separate subtitle file for platforms that want one, instead of burning the words into the picture.

Remove pauses

Long silences are found and proposed as cuts you review one at a time, with undo. Nothing is removed without you agreeing to it.