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Yes. MotionCaption works inside both After Effects (2023+) and Premiere (2023+). A few After Effects presets and tools require After Effects 24.3 or later.

No. 330+ animated caption presets (After Effects). 80+ animated caption presets in Premiere, all on one MotionCaption MoGRT. In Premiere every caption rides on one clip, so generation is fast and the timeline stays light, and you can split that clip to style any caption on its own. After Effects carries the larger library of presets, animations, effects, transitions, styles, and highlights.

No. The panel looks the same in both, and Premiere uses a MoGRT. In Premiere you get 80+ caption presets, any MoGRT you build yourself, text styles, boxes, highlights, animations, effects, and a one-click PNG bake for instant preview. Some features are After Effects only, including B-roll transitions, layer styles, User Presets, the palette manager, the easing editor, and the batch tools for caption layers. The caption work itself all runs in Premiere: transcription, presets, text styles, highlights, emojis, Auto Zoom, and Retime. You can also bring your own MoGRT and caption with it.

They are good tools built for a different workflow. CapCut and Submagic run in the browser or their own app, so your video leaves your edit and comes back as a finished file with the captions baked into the picture. MotionCaption runs inside After Effects and Premiere, so captions arrive on the timeline where you already work. In After Effects they are native text layers, so you can restyle, retime, and animate them with anything After Effects offers. In Premiere they come as a MoGRT, which keeps the whole caption track on one clip, so the timeline stays light and captions land fast. Split that clip whenever you want a caption styled on its own, or bake the track to a PNG sequence for instant playback. Pricing works differently too. MotionCaption is a one-time purchase for the core features, with an optional Pro subscription for the cloud AI tools.

Yes. Only emojis, media libraries, and AI features (cloud transcription, emoji suggestions, translation, etc.) require an internet connection.

MotionCaption is a paid plugin with a free trial. The trial lasts 7 days, needs no credit card, and includes 50 AI credits so you can try the cloud AI tools. After that, buy MotionCaption once and keep the core features for life, or subscribe to Pro for cloud AI and stock media. Every purchase comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Your projects and any styles you saved stay in your After Effects and Premiere files. To keep using the panel, buy MotionCaption (one-time) for core captioning, or subscribe to Pro for cloud AI and stock media.

Credits only pay for cloud AI features. The caption workflow itself is unlimited: presets, styles, animations, effects, editing, retiming, and local Whisper transcription all run with no credits on a one-time license. Cloud transcription is billed one credit per minute of audio, so a 10-minute video costs 10 credits and a full hour costs 60. Other AI features start at one credit and scale with how much you process. For example, AI highlight uses about one credit per 120 words. The panel always shows an estimate and asks you to confirm before any large spend. Stock search is included with Pro and uses zero AI credits. Pro includes 800 AI credits per month. Buy AI credit packs anytime you need more.

MotionCaption (one-time) comes with 150 AI credits, about 2.5 hours of cloud transcription or roughly 18 one-minute shorts with the full AI treatment. That grant is one time and does not renew each month. After it, top up with credit packs from $4.99 for 200 credits, or subscribe to Pro for 800 credits a month. The rest of the plugin needs no credits at all: offline Whisper transcription, every caption preset, styles, animations, effects, and retiming stay unlimited for life. Stock media search is the one extra that needs Pro.

The one-time purchase includes 1 year of updates and priority support. After that, $24.99 a year keeps new versions and priority support coming, and it is optional. The licence itself never expires: if you stop renewing, the version you own keeps working and you can renew again whenever you want. Pro subscribers always get the latest version while the subscription is active. MotionCaption runs on After Effects 2023 or newer and Premiere 2023 or newer, on Windows and macOS.

Accuracy depends on your audio, so the honest answer is a range rather than a single published number. Here is what you do get: cloud transcription in 100+ languages, a timestamp on every word, and two-speaker separation when you tick Separate speakers. Every word stays editable in the panel afterwards, and the Retime timeline snaps each word to a frame, so fixing the few words any transcriber gets wrong takes seconds. Cloud transcription costs 1 AI credit per minute of audio. Local Whisper runs offline on your own machine and spends no credits.

Yes. Presets include settings you can edit and save, such as text styles, highlights, backgrounds, animations, effects, transitions and more. In After Effects you get native text layers with full layer control. In Premiere, captions use a MoGRT with a wide set of style controls, and you can also load a MoGRT you built yourself and caption with that. A MoGRT exposes a fixed set of controls, so After Effects still goes deeper.

Heavier projects take longer to generate. For long videos, generate captions in a new or lighter project to keep it fast.

Yes. Your license runs on up to 2 devices at once. Open MotionCaption on the device you no longer use and click Deactivate, then activate on the new device with the same license. If you no longer have access to the old machine, contact support and we will reset your activations for you.

14-day money-back guarantee. Send a message through the contact form within 14 days of purchase and we'll refund you in full. Want to confirm fit first? Start the free trial, no card needed.