A text overlay is not a caption track
Overlay is copy you wrote and burned. Captions are a speech transcript. Send a mute clip to overlay, not to ASR.
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Edit with music and captions in one pass
One edit_video call can stitch, mix a bed, and burn captions. Preview 480p. Do not chain three tools for one ad.
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Keep captions on brand across videos
Save caption style, fonts, and colours in the brand kit once. Later burns inherit it. A draft is a different object.
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Translate the video into another language
Translate the spoken track, then caption the new language. Auto-captions transcribe what is now on the file, not the old English.
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A brand kit survives a bad model week
A brand kit is hex, type, logo, and tone stored once. When one model family has a bad week, the kit still binds captions and overlays.
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Change aspect before you caption
Change aspect, then burn captions. Type burned on 16:9 sits in the wrong place after a 9:16 crop.
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Get a transcript, then make the SRT
Transcribe with Cartesia ink-whisper, correct the page, then build SRT cues. A .txt is not a caption file.
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Remove the background, then caption
Key the subject first — Bria 1cr, VEED 3cr, SAM-3 1cr — then caption. Do not burn type onto checkerboard.
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Save a reusable caption draft
Save the captioned timeline as an editor draft. Re-run the style; do not restyle from chat every week.
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Split stems before the UGC music bed
Split the generated track into vocal and instrumental before the UGC bed. Caption the speech, not the snare.
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Alt text is not a caption track
Alt text describes a still or post. Speech captions transcribe audio. Do not paste one into the other.
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Captions on carousel covers are a still
The first carousel frame is a poster. Burn a line into that still. Do not ship a timed track nobody plays.
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Stories captions sit higher than Reels
Story chrome (reply bar, stickers) eats the bottom. Place type higher than you would on Reels.
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Chapters are not a caption track
YouTube chapters are description timestamps. Burned-in lines are pixels. They are different objects.
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Put the hook on screen before the SKU
Spend the first second on the spoken line, not the logo. Burn the claim, then show the pack.
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A transcript is not an SRT
Plain text has no timestamps. An SRT is cues. Burn-in is pixels. Transcribe, then caption — different jobs.
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Check a video before you publish it
Before you upload: confirm ratio, safe-area, captions, AI label, and SKU spelling on the finished file. The generate is not the check.
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Pinterest video is not Reels chrome
Idea Pin safe-area is not TikTok’s caption zone. Recrop the type. A 9:16 Reel master is not a Pinterest-native video pin.
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Silent generate, then TTS, then captions
Kling Turbo (12cr, silent), then Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (4cr), then burn-in. Native audio is wasted when the line must be exact.
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A UGC brief is shots, not a vibe
A UGC brief is shots, not a vibe: hook line, SKU still, usage-rights window, caption style, and AI-label.
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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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Dub first, then caption the new language
Captions transcribe 165 spoken-language codes. They do not translate. Dub the locked master, then caption the dubbed track.
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6 apps instead of a junior video editor
CapCut, DaVinci, Opus Clip, VEED, Versely, and Premiere cover junior-editor weeks: cuts, captions, shorts. Pick by footage, not a seat.
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6 apps instead of a Reels copywriter
Claude, ChatGPT, Jasper, Captions.ai, Versely, and Submagic cover Reels copy: hooks, scripts, on-screen type. Pick by words, not a seat.
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