Captions after Movie mode, not in the prompt
Finish the multi-scene film first. Then transcribe and burn captions. Scene prompts are a bad typesetter.
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Finish the multi-scene film first. Then transcribe and burn captions. Scene prompts are a bad typesetter.
CapCut, VEED, Captions.ai, Versely, Submagic, and Descript burn type after generate. Pick by timeline, browser, phone, family, templates, or transcript.
CapCut, VEED, OpusClip, Versely, Submagic, and Descript caption an AI MP4. Pick by timeline, browser burn, clipper, family, templates, or transcript.
Burn-in for the muted feed. Export SRT for the course player. Do not ship one object to both jobs.
A video caption generator composites words into pixels. That is burn-in, not a sidecar SRT the feed will never draw.
Burn captions into short-form feeds. Ship SRT or WebVTT for YouTube long-form and courses. The object changes with the player, not with taste.
Captions are speech on screen. Article 50 is a first-exposure AI mark. One does not satisfy the other.
Do not cover the demo. Park speech captions off the UI chrome you are showing; overlay labels the click, captions the voice.
Map each platform's chrome, then place captions once: mid-lower on TikTok, off Reels' caption field, above Shorts' subscribe row.
A uniform lag is an offset. Growing lag is drift. Frame-rate mismatch is a rescale. Pick the fix, not a restyle.
Most short-form views arrive muted. Burned-in captions are the soundtrack. How to write, time and place them so the hook still lands.
Word-by-word burn-in holds in short-form and fatigues in long-form. The per-format rule, and how to catch caption-style cost at specific timestamps.
Quoted text and contractions trigger Veo auto-subtitles. The prompt rewrite that stops it, and why writing 'no subtitles' makes it worse.
A placement guide for 9:16 ads: where TikTok and Reels UI covers captions, product shots, and text — and how to reframe one master render per platform.