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Captions and subtitles

Auto-generate captions from speech

  1. Open the Captions tab (bottom-left panel) and click Auto-generate (or Sequence ▸ Auto-generate Captions…).
  2. Choose what to transcribe (entire sequence, In/Out or selected clips), the spoken language (or Detect automatically) and the accuracy model. Tick Translate the captions into English if you want English captions from another language.
  3. Click Generate. The first time, the chosen model downloads once (sizes below).

Speech recognition runs entirely on your computer — nothing is uploaded. Always read through the result: names, technical words and less common languages may need corrections.

The caption engine downloads once, the first time you click Generate (Tiny ~45 MB, Base ~80–95 MB, Small ~250–330 MB), and stays in your browser. To free the space, choose Captions ▸ Remove Caption Engine…; it downloads again next time you need it. Chrome and Edge use your graphics chip and are fastest.

Show or hide captions

Untick Show captions in the Captions panel (or click CC in the Program monitor) to hide them from the picture without deleting them. Hidden captions are left out of exports by default; choose Burn into the video in the Export dialog to include them anyway.

Add captions by hand

Click Add at playhead, then type the words. Each caption appears as a purple clip on the CC track above the video, where you can move and trim it like any clip. Edit the start and end timecodes in the panel, or double-click a caption clip to edit its text.

Import and export .srt

  • Import .srt adds captions from a subtitle file.
  • Export .srt saves the sequence's captions as a subtitle file for YouTube, Vimeo and other players.

Style

Style… sets the text size, colour, background box, opacity, position (bottom or top) and margin for the whole sequence.

In exports

The Export dialog's Captions option can burn them into the picture, save a matching .srt file next to the video, do both, or leave them out.

Shortcuts show the Mac keys: on Windows and Linux use Ctrl for ⌘ and Alt for ⌥.

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