Auto captions and accent accuracy
ASR misses names, numbers and accents first. There is no honest WER to quote. Read the transcript back, then burn.
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Caption colour and contrast
Stroke and boxes beat brand hex. WCAG 4.5:1 is a check, not a law. Preview the look on this footage.
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Caption fonts that read at 9:16
At phone size, weight, stroke and x-height beat brand taste. Use the 9 Caption Studio families, not a poster serif.
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Caption styles that hold retention
Pick Snap or Reveal when the caption is the hook; pick Classic, Paper or Ink when type only has to be read.
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Caption a podcast into 20 clips
Cut the 60-minute file into 20 clips first. Caption each clip after the trim — 1× basic or 2× dynamic credits per file.
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Captions vs the Article 50 label
Captions are speech on screen. Article 50 is a first-exposure AI mark. One does not satisfy the other.
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Captions on screen recordings
Do not cover the demo. Park speech captions off the UI chrome you are showing; overlay labels the click, captions the voice.
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Captions plus a hook line
Two layers: a transcript of speech and an authored overlay. Mixing them into one track is the bug.
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Caption safe zones: Reels Shorts TikTok
Map each platform's chrome, then place captions once: mid-lower on TikTok, off Reels' caption field, above Shorts' subscribe row.
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Captions on talking-head vs B-roll
Talking-head needs auto captions of speech. Silent B-roll needs an overlay you wrote. Mixing the two jobs is the miss.
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Fixing captions that land late
A uniform lag is an offset. Growing lag is drift. Frame-rate mismatch is a rescale. Pick the fix, not a restyle.
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Multilingual captions for one clip
Transcribe is not translate. Dub the audio first, then caption each language with its own 165-code pass.
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Publish from the editor to every platform
Export from the Versely web editor, check the cut, reframe for TikTok and Shorts, then queue it in Auto Post. Reschedule without a second charge.
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Instagram Reels 20-minute limit
Instagram lets you record Reels up to 20 minutes. That changes the container versus a feed post. It does not turn every Reel into a long video.
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Re-run an old Sora project
Export the files, rewrite the prompt for the destination model, lock identity with stills. Do not expect the seed to transfer.
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Sora Pro Storyboard to Movie mode
A Sora 2 Pro storyboard is a multi-scene job. Map it to Versely Movie studio, not a single text-to-video row.
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Sora 2 to Omni Flash migration
Omni Flash is conversational video editing, not a Sora twin. Pair Nano Banana 2 Lite stills with edit turns; generate the shot elsewhere.
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Sora prompts that fail on Veo
Sora timestamp blocks, 20-second duration, and audio dumped into one paragraph break on Veo 3.1, Seedance, and Kling. Rewrite for the row you actually run.
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TikTok 10-minute upload limit
TikTok accepts uploads up to 10 minutes for most accounts. That is an upload cap, not a retention target. Cut for the hold, not the ceiling.
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YouTube Shorts 3-minute limit
The 3-minute cap decides whether an idea is a Short. Over it, the same cut is long-form. This is a format call, not a resolution spec.
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Agency checklist for Article 50
Name the deployer, place the label at first exposure, pick an icon, log human review on public-interest text, and write the duty into the contract.
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Does this cut need an Article 50 label?
Label it if a real person, place or event would look authentic at first exposure. Assistive edits and pre-2 Aug published files sit outside.
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Article 50 fines: €15M or 3%
The party that failed the duty can be fined up to €15 million or 3% of worldwide turnover. Deployer or provider, not a random login.
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Article 50 timeline: dates that bind
Four dates bind Article 50: 20 Jul 2026 guidelines, 2 Aug applies, 2 Dec provider marking grace, 2 Feb 2027 watermark-detection interoperability.
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