How to easily add captions to your videos

Maura N.

The Last Black Unicorn
I have recently stumbled upon a software that can be extremely helpful for content creators, podcasts and vlogs. Manually adding captions can be time consuming, however, a service called Descript provides an all-in-one audio and video editing. The service has both a free version and a paid version. Has anyone else tried it yet? Have you tried a similar software?

For those who haven't, you need to download the app for Windws from their website. Then, you need to select "New classic project" and you drag & drop your video there. The next step is to select the language of your video. After about one minute of waiting, your captions are done. This software is perfect for short TikTok clips too and it has a feature called "fancy caption". To properly use this feature, you will also need to select "word-level animation" and choose a bright colour such as yellow for "playhead color" option.


The free version of descript has a few limitations: you can't export full hd, only 720p. The export will have a watermark and you have only 3 hours of transcript.
 

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