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Transcribe, import SRT, or add captions. Then edit, retime, and style every word.

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MotionCaption · Captions

Start with your words

Transcribe two ways

Transcribe free and offline on your machine with Whisper, or use cloud AI for the most accurate words and timing.

Tip: turn on auto-enhance and MotionCaption suggests emojis, highlights, and supersized words while it transcribes.

Import or add captions

Import SRT, TXT, or CSV files, or type captions straight into the panel. Already have text in your project? Pull it in from selected text layers in After Effects, or from the active captions track in Premiere.

Your captions stay yours. Export SRT or plain text anytime. New to captions? See why they matter.

Words and timing

Edit before you generate

Get the words and the timing right in a responsive panel, then generate the captions on your timeline.

Format captions to your needs

Set lines per caption and characters per line, so captions read the way you want.

Fix text easily

Click a word or double-click any caption to edit its text. Click a word and press Enter to move a phrase to the next line. Or switch to the transcript view for bigger rewrites.

Undo and redo everything

Undo every text, timing, and structure change with Z. Redo with X.

Find any caption fast

Live search highlights every match. Jump between them with arrow keys, and a counter shows where you are, like 3 of 12.

Smooth on huge projects

The grid stays responsive across thousands of captions, so jumping to caption 5,000 is instant.

Select your way

Select all, a range, individual captions, or a whole speaker (S1 / S2) at once, then generate just that subset instead of the whole project.

Reshape captions

Drag across words to merge them, or click a word to delete it. One click sets a word to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Capitalized. One double click ends every selected caption with ..., ?, or !, or strips punctuation from all of them.

Rewrite the whole script at once

Switch from the grid to a single flowing-text view, with timing and speaker breaks kept intact.

Retime, down to the frame

Drag a whole caption or a single word on the retime timeline. Every edit snaps to the frame rate of your comp or sequence, so words land on exact frames. Or type an exact start and end.

By hand or AI

Enhance every caption

Add emojis, highlights, supersize, auto zoom, B-roll, and chapters by hand on any plan, or let Pro's AI suggest them for you. Timing and speaker breaks stay intact.

Emojis

By hand·AI

Add emojis by hand, or let AI suggest animated emojis that fit each caption.

Highlights

By hand·AI

Highlight key words in your choice of color by hand, or let AI pick the words to emphasize.

Supersize

By hand·AI

Enlarge punch words with a click, or let AI suggest which words to size up.

Auto Zoom

By hand·AI

Punch in on key moments from your markers or cuts, or let AI suggest them.

B-roll

By hand·AI

Add B-roll, or let AI suggest clips that match each caption.

Chapters

By hand·AI

Mark chapters by hand, or let AI generate them from your captions.

Remove silences, filler & repeats

Cut dead air, filler words, and repeated takes from your timeline. Review every cut, then ripple-delete and keep captions in sync.

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