Add captions and subtitles
Word-level captions timed from the transcript — karaoke highlighting, styling by prompt, burned into MP4s or carried to your NLE.
Because Eddie has word-level timing from the transcript, its captions land on the beat — each word can highlight as it's spoken.
Add captions
Prompt: "Add captions." Eddie builds a caption track timed to the transcript and shows it live in the player. Or click the one-click ✨ Generate button on the empty Captions lane of the timeline.
Style them
Ask for the look you want:
- "Bigger captions" / "captions at the bottom".
- "Highlight each word as it's spoken" — karaoke style.
- With a brand kit attached: "use our brand font for the captions."
Captions reflow automatically to fit vertical and square canvases — see Crop and reframe.
Every language, in-script
Because Eddie transcribes 100+ languages, captions render in the right writing system too. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai wrap at the correct character boundaries with bundled Noto fonts — no spaces jammed between characters, no boxes for missing glyphs. Karaoke highlighting follows the script.
Hindi and Devanagari: captions in Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit (the Devanagari script) now burn into MP4 exports with real glyphs, not boxes ("tofu") — a bundled Noto Sans Devanagari face fixed that. One narrower gap remains: a few vowel signs that visually sit before their consonant (the ि in हिंदी, the ो/ौ in words like कोई) still draw in storage order rather than visual order, so those specific words can look glyph-scrambled in a burned-in MP4 even though everything else — including most other matras — renders correctly. Export to your NLE for pixel-perfect Devanagari today. Other Indic scripts (Bengali, Tamil, and the rest) aren't covered by either fix yet and may still show tofu in a burned-in MP4.
Right-to-left caveat: Arabic and Hebrew transcribe fine and appear in the transcript and editor, but Eddie currently won't burn RTL captions into an MP4 (the karaoke overdraw misaligns) — so it declines rather than ship them crooked. Export a timeline to your NLE to finish RTL captions there.
Captions vs. subtitles
- Captions here are the on-screen, styled, animated text — great for social.
- For a separate subtitle file, export to your NLE: caption timing travels with the edit, and your editor can produce SRT from there.
In export
- MP4 — captions are burned into the video, karaoke highlight and all.
- NLE export — caption timing carries into Premiere / Final Cut / Resolve so you can finish styling there.
Pair with remove filler and silences for a clean social cut, then render an MP4.