Upload a video and its .srt or .vtt file and get back an MP4 with the captions rendered into the picture. Burned-in captions play on every platform, including the ones that ignore a separate subtitle track or autoplay muted in a feed. Native ffmpeg, no signup, no watermark.
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Drop in an MP4, MOV, WebM, or MKV up to 500 MB, then the matching .srt or .vtt. Timings are taken from the subtitle file exactly as written, so check them before uploading.
Outlined text suits most footage. The boxed style is easier to read over busy or bright video. Move captions to the top when the lower third of your frame carries a UI or a lower-third graphic.
The server re-encodes the video with the captions rendered into every frame and hands back an MP4 that carries them everywhere it plays.
Run the recording through the subtitle generator first. It transcribes the audio on our server, lets you fix any line, and exports the .srt this tool expects. If you only need the words rather than timed cues, use video to text instead.
A soft subtitle track is a separate stream the player can toggle, which is ideal when your viewer controls the player. Burned-in captions are pixels: nothing to enable, nothing to lose in a re-upload, and they survive platforms that strip subtitle streams or autoplay muted. The tradeoff is that they cannot be turned off or translated later, so keep the original file if you may need another language.
No. Burning captions writes them into the picture, which is the point: they cannot be lost or disabled anywhere the video plays. Keep your original file and .srt if you might need a clean version or another language later.
The file is normalised to SRT before rendering, so anything that is not a readable .srt or .vtt fails immediately rather than producing a video with no captions. Check that the file opens as plain text and has timecodes in it.
The timings come from your subtitle file, and the video is re-encoded without changing its timeline, so whatever sync the file has is preserved exactly.
Generate one from the recording itself with the subtitle generator, which transcribes the audio and lets you edit each cue before exporting .srt or .vtt.
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