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Captions & subtitles
Karaoke-style captions
Karaoke-style captions highlight each word at the moment it is spoken, the style popularized by social-video editors.
The effect depends entirely on word-level timestamps — approximate segment timing makes the highlight drift. It measurably lifts retention on short-form video, which is why every clip tool now offers it.
Related terms
Word-level timestampsWord-level timestamps attach a start and end time to every individual word in a transcript, rather than to who…
Burned-in captionsBurned-in (or hardcoded) captions are rendered into the video frames themselves during export, becoming pixels…
Forced alignmentForced alignment is the process of taking an existing transcript and an audio recording and computing exactly …
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