Auto captions and subtitles
The problem: Typing and timing captions by hand eats hours on every talking video
These tools transcribe your audio and place timed captions for you, either burned into the video or as editable text in your editor. You still read them over before export
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Real people doing this
The maker of podcli renders vertical clips for the Deeptech Decoded podcast with it and fixes what shows up in those real renders, like the crop landing on a wall when a clip switches from full screen to split screen
nmbrthirteen, the maker of podcli · GitHub pull request, Oct 2026
Uses ffmpeg-skill on talking head videos with a webcam or screen recording picture in picture, which also get reframed, captioned, loudness normalized and exported for a platform, and asked for that whole job to fit in one project file
rymalia, GitHub user · GitHub issue, Oct 2026
Had Codex drive Jianying, the Chinese version of CapCut, through VectCutAPI to mass produce quote videos for Douyin. Once the first template worked, 7 more videos took 4 minutes, and each new one takes under 2 minutes. Anything off gets fixed by hand in the draft
@Sixtimenight, creator, in Chinese · jxxy.net, Aug 2026
Connected Claude to Premiere Pro so the AI cuts silences and flubs, adds synced captions and music, and a person does the final check. They delivered 4 short dramas to paying clients this way
Macky, runs a video company in Japan, in Japanese · note, Aug 2026
“The biggest improvement came from giving it an actual editing brief”
Used Codex and FFmpeg to turn two How I AI recordings into 8 captioned vertical Shorts, then had it upload them in YouTube Studio after she approved each one
Claire Vo, host of How I AI · clairevo.com, Sep 2026
11 tools that help
Demo clipffmpeg-skill
Solves Captions, 9:16 crops, silence removal and exports done on your own computer by an AI
VideoVectCutAPI (CapCut/Jianying API)
Solves Making lots of CapCut videos with subtitles, voiceover and effects without editing each one by hand
MCP Bridge for Adobe Premiere Pro
Solves Cutting pauses, building rough cuts and doing timeline busywork in Premiere by asking an AI
Demo clippodcli
Solves Turning a long podcast episode into vertical clips with face tracking and captions
PremierPro MCP Server (ayushozha)
Solves Handling Premiere timelines, audio, captions, graphics templates and exports from an AI chat
Premiere Pro MCP Server (170+ tools)
Solves Editing, adding effects and captions, and exporting in Premiere from Claude
VideoKinocut (formerly mcp-video)
Solves Repurposing long videos into Shorts and Reels with quality checks before export
DaVinci Resolve MCP Bridge (Free-version)
Solves Using AI with Resolve Free, including local transcription, without paying for Studio
CapCut MCP Server — Extended
Solves Making talking head CapCut edits with styled captions and animation presets
cutcli cookbook
Solves Turning a prompt or template into an editable CapCut draft
HyperFrames (HeyGen)
Solves Making motion graphics, captions and callouts with AI and rendering them to MP4
Ideas to try
These are our ideas, not reports from real users. Know one?
- Burn captions into every Short in a folder with one request, then check the first one before running the rest
- Ask the agent to keep captions away from faces and screen content, the way you would brief a junior editor
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