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Captions

PointerCam writes captions from your voice on your own computer, timed word by word. Edit any line, style them, and light each word as it is spoken.

Mac appChrome
Where to find it
  1. Video editor
  2. Pro
  3. Audio & Captions
  4. Captions

Make captions#

  1. 1In Simple, find Captions under Done for you and press Transcribe.The first time, PointerCam downloads the speech model into your browser or app. After that it runs at once.
  2. 2Wait while it works.It keeps going if you leave the tab. One video is transcribed at a time.
  3. 3Read the transcript in Audio & Captions › Captions. Click a line to jump there, and type to correct it.

No voice on the take? Press Import to bring in an .srt or .vtt file written elsewhere, or Write a line at the playhead.

How they look#

In Simple, the rows under Captions set the Size (S, M or L), the Plate (Dark, Light, or Glass: dark words on frosted glass), the Words (the whole Line, or One at a time) and the Place (Bottom, Middle or Top). Pro has the numbers:

  • Size and Width: the type size and how wide a line may run, as a share of the picture.
  • The same type, background, shadow and arrival as callouts.
  • Placement: Bottom, Middle or Top, with a margin, or drag the words anywhere on the preview.

One word at a time#

One word at a time shows each word alone as it is said, coming into focus, as short-form videos do. It needs the word timings a transcript made here has; the subtitle file keeps whole lines.

Light the words as they are spoken#

Off
A plain caption block.
Tint
Colours the word being said.
Select
Sets the word being said in white on a coloured block, which moves along the line from word to word.
Read-along
Dims the words not spoken yet. Unspoken opacity sets how faint they are.

Keep them out of the picture#

Switch off Burn into the video and the words stay out of the picture. They still export as a subtitle file, which a viewer can switch off and a search engine can read. See Save a subtitle file.

Engines#

On this machine
A Whisper speech model installed in this browser or app. You can remove a model to free room.
Connected
A speech model you already run on your own computer, reached at its local server address.

Read next

Save a subtitle file for YouTubeSave your captions as an .srt beside the exported video, for YouTube’s own captions, or as .srt or .vtt from the Captions section.Volume, muting and the mixYour voice, the tab or system audio, music and sounds each have their own level under Audio & Captions › Sound, with one master level over the whole mix.Add text, arrows and boxesCallouts point things out on the video for as long as you choose: text, an arrow, a box or an icon. Add one at the playhead, then drag it into place on the preview.

Something not working the way this page says? See Troubleshooting, or start from Getting started.