Yes. MotionCaption runs inside Premiere (2023+) and After Effects (2023+). In Premiere it installs its own caption MoGRT and imports it into your project, so you transcribe, pick one of the 80+ caption looks in the panel, and generate on your timeline. There is no separate template to find. A few After Effects presets and tools require After Effects 24.3 or later.

MotionCaption brings its own. It installs the caption MoGRT and imports it into your project, and all 80+ Premiere caption looks render on that one template. You pick a look in the panel and generate. There is no separate template to build, buy, or download.

Each host has its own library. 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.

Each host has its own set. The panel looks the same in both, and Premiere captions run on a MoGRT that installs with the plugin. In Premiere you get 80+ caption presets on that one template, with text styles, boxes, highlights, animations, effects, and a one-click PNG bake for instant preview. The caption work all runs in Premiere: transcription, presets, text styles, highlights, emojis, Auto Zoom, and Retime, all driven from the MotionCaption panel. Premiere also puts the whole caption track on one MoGRT clip, splits it per caption when you want, and bakes it to a PNG sequence for instant playback. B-roll transitions, layer styles, User Presets, the palette manager, the easing editor, and the batch tools for caption layers run in After Effects.

Because generation writes the whole caption track in one pass, and your timeline holds one clip instead of one clip per caption. Edit the look once and every caption follows. When you want a caption moved, retimed, or styled on its own, switch Captions Layout to Separate Captions and MotionCaption splits that clip per caption. For playback, Bake renders the caption track to a PNG sequence so it scrubs instantly.

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 7-day free trial, no card needed, including 50 AI credits for the cloud tools. After that, buy once and keep the core features for life, or subscribe to Pro for cloud AI and stock media.

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

Credits pay for the cloud AI features only. Presets, styles, animations, effects, editing, retiming and transcription on your own machine need none. Cloud transcription costs one credit per minute, so a 10-minute video costs 10. The panel shows an estimate and asks before any large spend. Pro includes 800 credits a month, and credit packs top you up.

No. Captions, the preset library, styles, animation, effects, editing and transcription on your own machine are all in the one-time licence, with no recurring fee. Pro adds the cloud AI on top: cloud transcription, translation, emoji suggestions, and stock media search. You can make finished animated captions without ever subscribing.

No. It comes with 800 AI credits to use in your first 90 days, as many as one month of Pro and about 13.3 hours of cloud transcription. Those starter credits do not renew and they run out at the end of that window. Credits you buy in a pack are different: they are yours and they never expire. After the starter, top up with packs from $4.99 for 200 credits, or subscribe to Pro for 800 a month. Everything that needs no credits stays unlimited for life.

The one-time purchase includes 1 year of updates and priority support. After that, $24.99 a year keeps both coming, and it is optional. The licence never expires: stop renewing and the version you own keeps working, and you can renew whenever you want. Pro always has the latest version while it is active.

It depends on your audio, so the honest answer is a range rather than a published number. What you do get: 100+ languages, a timestamp on every word, and two-speaker separation. Every word stays editable, and the Retime timeline snaps each one to a frame, so fixing the few any transcriber misses takes seconds.

No file needed. Cloud transcription returns a start and end time for every word, so word-by-word captions come straight out of the transcript in both After Effects and Premiere. In Premiere those per-word timings go into the caption MoGRT, and the word highlight and type-on looks animate from them. Transcription on your own machine also gives per-word timing, and cloud gives the more precise timing of the two. You can still import an SRT, TXT, or CSV when you already have one. Cloud transcription costs one credit per minute.

Yes. Every preset carries settings you can edit and save: text styles, highlights, backgrounds, animations, effects and transitions. In After Effects they arrive as native text layers, so anything After Effects can do to a text layer, you can do to a caption. In Premiere you restyle from the MotionCaption panel. Open Properties and you get the caption MoGRT's own controls for text and stroke color, leading, shadows, word and line highlights, boxes, and glow, written straight to the caption clips on your track.

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.