Burn captions before you schedule
Schedulers will happily post a silent master. Burn captions in the edit, not as a wish in the caption box.
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Schedulers will happily post a silent master. Burn captions in the edit, not as a wish in the caption box.
Versely caption families and VEED styles solve the same mute-feed problem with different libraries. Pick by burn control, not by screenshot envy.
Forced narrative, SDH, and CC are three caption jobs. Mixing them is how you ship the wrong file to a platform.
TikTok UI eats the bottom and sides. Caption safe area is not optional if the line is the hook.
Design the first second for mute. If the joke needs sound, burn it as text.
The in-app clips are one line, ten styles. Watch them muted. That is the test, not the picker thumbnail.
Facility plate of the ice. Captions for public-skate hours. Do not invent children's faces on the ice.
Snap/Reveal word-timed families look broken when the transcript drifts. Isolate before you caption.
No fake officials. Captions on real stills.
Equipment plate plus captions — funeral homes already banned photoreal presenters and invented families; do not import that job.
Gear stills and captions.
TikTok's AIGC label fires on realistic people, scenes, or speech a viewer could mistake for reality. Captions, scripts, colour, and crops do not trigger it.
Captions on jobsite stills.
Some detectors treat burned-in generated type as AI-modified. A VEED burn-in can stamp the post even when the footage is real.
Looks fine is not a rate. Set a word-error-rate target, count punctuation and speaker misses, and sample a 200-clip library instead of reading every file.
Captions timed only to speech feel late at cuts and cover new faces. Shot-change rules, lead-in/out frames, and a QC pass that never covers a new speaker.
English CPS caps wreck German, Finnish, and CJK. Starting CPS and CPL figures by script, and a QC method for cutting captions without changing what was said.
A signed one-pager for codec, luma range, loudness, captions, textless and checksum, so the master the client accepts is the file you send.
Beyond the EAA overview: EN 301 549 clauses that actually fail brand video players. A clause-to-control map and a retest after a player redesign.
Space, arrows, a captions toggle, and a visible focus ring. Why marketing embeds fail, and a 12-key staging test you can run in ten minutes.
Live auto-captions and offline QC are different products. When live is acceptable, when a recorded library needs offline, and a spot-check method for each.
Center-bottom captions sit on generated mouths and burned-in prices. WebVTT and TTML regions, when to raise or split, and a vertical safe-zone review.
SDH includes speakers and non-speech; CC is a delivery method. A matrix for 608/708 broadcast, WebVTT on the web, and why one file cannot serve both.
US public-sector and vendor sites still owe 508; ADA Title II names WCAG 2.1 AA. What accessible video means in RFPs, plus a gap list for a marketing site.