Captions

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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.

Add captions

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

In manual mode:

Press Captions in the tool row.
Choose the Language (Auto (from the voice) works for most videos) and how to Write in: its own script, Latin letters, or a translation.
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…
When it’s done, the panel says what it heard, for example Heard Kannada with English: Kanglish.
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.

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: 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, 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.