Transcribe, customize, and export captioned videos in one place with Descript. Start from a template or create your own branded caption style for videos viewers will watch until the end. Descript makes it easy to generate captioned video content to fuel TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media channels to improve your content’s accessibility.
Import your video into Descript to automatically generate a transcript complete with speaker labels and timestamps. From there, you can edit the transcribed text, remove filler words, and highlight specific moments to turn into captioned video clips.
With your transcript ready, you can select Captions under the Text menu to add subtitles to your video, which are automatically synced with the audio. Customize your animated captions’ font, colors, and style, or choose from dozens of templates you can apply.
Go to the Publish tab to export your captioned video as a download, or to another platform like YouTube or Wistia. You can also export standalone SRT or VTT files you can upload to other video editing or hosting platforms to add soft subtitles.
Transcribe, customize, and export captioned videos in one place with Descript. Start from a template or create your own branded caption style for videos viewers will watch until the end. Descript makes it easy to generate captioned video content to fuel TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media channels to improve your content’s accessibility.
Import your video into Descript to automatically generate a transcript complete with speaker labels and timestamps. From there, you can edit the transcribed text, remove filler words, and highlight specific moments to turn into captioned video clips.
With your transcript ready, you can select Captions under the Text menu to add subtitles to your video, which are automatically synced with the audio. Customize your animated captions’ font, colors, and style, or choose from dozens of templates you can apply.
Go to the Publish tab to export your captioned video as a download, or to another platform like YouTube or Wistia. You can also export standalone SRT or VTT files you can upload to other video editing or hosting platforms to add soft subtitles.
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Use custom fonts and colors to create branded video caption templates. Choose between different caption styles: Classic (line by line), Clean (word by word), and Karaoke (current word highlighted).
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Captions are a unique feature in Descript that allow you to enhance the appearance and style of your captions in videos. Descript offers various customizable options, such as different fonts, colors, backgrounds, styles, and animation effects, to make your captions more visually appealing, engaging, and on-brand.
To generate an SRT (SubRip Subtitle) file from a video, import your video into a Descript project to automatically transcribe the audio. Make any necessary edits to the transcript that will be used in your subtitle file. When you’re finished, go to the Export tab (found in the Publish menu). Select the option to export Subtitles and choose an SRT file, which contains timed captions synced to the audio in your video.
You can add captions to your videos for free by transcribing it yourself and manually syncing it with your audio. Or you can use Descript’s AI transcription and caption generator to add visually-appealing subtitles to your videos in seconds.
Soft captions, also known as closed captions or subtitles, are standalone captions typically stored in SRT or VTT files that can be uploaded separately to video editing or hosting platforms. Viewers can toggle them on or off through their video player's settings, making them suitable for platforms that support caption files, like YouTube.
Hard captions refer to captions that are burned into the video itself and always display by default. These captions cannot be turned off or adjusted by viewers. Hard captions are ideal for situations where captions are best embedded and always visible, such as on social media platforms where the majority of viewers watch videos with the sound off.
