# Captions

> Add captions written from the speech in your video, timed word by word, in one of Muvomi's caption looks. Edit them, and export burned in or as SRT.

**Where:** Video editor › Captions, or Home › Open a tool: Captions · **Cost:** 10 credits a recording

Captions are written from the speech in your video, timed word by word, and drawn in the picture in one of 87 caption looks. They follow your cuts, and export burned into the video, as an SRT file, or both. Captions can be written in 51 languages, in a language’s own script, in Latin letters such as Hinglish, or translated. See [Caption languages](https://docs.muvomi.com/sound/caption-languages/).

## Add captions

**In AI mode**, ask: *“Add captions”*, or *“Add captions in Hinglish”*.

**In manual mode:**

1.  Press **Captions** in the tool row.

2.  Choose the **Language** (**Auto (from the voice)** works for most videos) and how to **Write in**: its own script, Latin letters, or a translation.

3.  Press **Auto-caption this video** to caption every clip with sound, or select a clip and press **Auto-caption selected clip**. The panel shows *Listening to your video…*

4.  When it’s done, the panel says what it heard, for example *Heard Kannada with English: Kanglish.*

5.  Press **Choose a caption look** and pick one.

Your captions appear in a **Captions** lane under the tracks. Click a caption there to jump to it in the panel.

## Caption looks

The look picker plays a sample of each look. Search by name, group or idea (*“highlighter”*, *“bounce”*, *“retro”*), or filter by group. Every look draws the scripts of India and the world, right-to-left ones included, and the export matches the preview.

| Group | Looks |
| --- | --- |
| **Follow the voice**  
16 looks | Follow along, Pop, Tracker, Marker, Underline, Karaoke, Glass, Zoom, Focus, Bouncing ball, Pointer, Progress line, Heavy word, Brackets, Lift, Slant block |
| **Multicolour**  
10 looks | Punch, Two lines, Candy, Neon, Sunset, Split, Colour blocks, Keynote, Misprint, Ombre |
| **Big type**  
11 looks | One word, Trio, Letter tiles, Tower, Kicker, Hollow, Long shadow, Echo, Swerve, Slam, Big keyword |
| **Boxes and labels**  
11 looks | News bar, Paper labels, Chips, Speech bubble, Label maker, Sticky note, Caution tape, Ribbon, Viewfinder, Lower third, Closed caption |
| **Entrances**  
11 looks | Typewriter, Mask rise, Flip board, Drop in, Blur in, Slide in, Reveal, Swing, Assemble, Ink wipe, Stretch |
| **Editorial**  
7 looks | Italic turn, Small caps, Pull quote, Headline, Serif accent, Newsprint, Cinema |
| **Playful**  
8 looks | Comic, Sticker, Wave, Handwritten, Jitter, Block 3D, Cut-out, Chalk |
| **Screen and retro**  
5 looks | Pixel, Terminal, VHS, Glitch, Dot matrix |
| **Essentials**  
8 looks | Studio bold, Classic, Soft box, Clean, Light, Impact, Bright strip, Fine outline |

You can watch every look play on [muvomi.com/caption-templates](https://muvomi.com/caption-templates).

## Customise captions

Open **Customize captions** in the panel:

-   **Highlight each word as it is spoken**, and the **Highlight color** (or **Use template colors**)
-   **Position**: bottom safe area, centre, or top safe area
-   **Text size**: 60% to 160%
-   **Text color**

## Edit words and timing

Every caption is listed in the panel with its start time, its text, and **Start** and **End** fields in tenths of a second. Click a time to jump there.

-   **Fix a word** by editing the text. If the caption keeps the same number of words, each word keeps its timing.
-   **Remove** a caption with its ×.
-   **Add caption at playhead** adds a two-second caption you can type into.

Captions break into lines at sentences, commas and pauses, about 34 characters and at most 7 words a line, without ending a line on a small word like *the* or *of*.

## Download captions

Press **Download SRT** or **Download VTT** in the panel. Or choose **Captions** in the [export dialog](https://docs.muvomi.com/edit/exporting/#settings): **Burned into the picture**, **As a file (.srt)**, both, or none. SRT and VTT files carry the words and timing only; looks and highlights exist in the exported video.

## Cost

Listening to a recording is a captions job, 10 credits, and includes the first writing in Latin letters or a translation. Each recording is listened to once: changing the language or writing later works from what was heard, without listening again. Editing captions, changing the look, downloading SRT or VTT and exporting are free.

Asking the editor’s AI for captions is one [AI edit](https://docs.muvomi.com/edit/editor-ai/#cost), which includes the captions job.

## Limits

-   Up to four recordings are captioned per press. Select a clip to caption the rest.
-   Up to 500 captions in the Captions panel.
-   Recordings up to 100 MB.

## Troubleshooting

| You see | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| *Add a video or audio clip with sound to create captions.* | Add a clip that has sound. |
| *No speech was found in this part of the recording.* | Check that the clip has speech and isn’t muted. |
| *Some clips were not captioned in this pass.* | Select a clip that wasn’t captioned, and caption it. |
| *The clip changed while transcribing.* | Try again. What was heard is kept, so it won’t be charged again. |
| *This recording is being listened to by another request.* | Wait ten minutes and try again. |