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Captions and subtitles for short videos

Words on screen for people watching with the sound off: which kind of caption to use, where it sits over the picture and how to check it before a clip goes out.

Captions let people follow a clip when the audio is off or hard to hear. On a vertical clip they also share a narrow frame with the speaker's face and with the buttons and text the app lays over the video, so where they sit matters as much as what they say.

The guides on this shelf start with the choice between open captions, burned into the picture and the same in every app, and closed captions, a separate track the viewer switches on. Then they turn to the review that catches what automatic transcription gets wrong: names, numbers and negatives first, then the timing at each end of the cut, then the contrast over the real footage. Each guide lists the pages it quotes, with the day they were checked.

Snipri burns animated captions into every clip it cuts, word by word, in the style you pick, and you can correct any word in the editor before you download. The review steps here apply whichever tool wrote the captions, and the podcast clip maker shows them on a real episode's clips.

Try it on your own footage

Snipri is AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. It turns one long video into captioned vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and you pay by the video, not by the clip. Your first 2 videos are free, up to 1 hour each, no credit card needed.

Clip a video
  • A scene from Meridian, reframed to vertical and captioned word by word by Snipri: a young detective at his desk says "Well, in that case, maybe you don't want to go out there, boss." and smiles.
  • A scene from Tears of Steel, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri in condensed capitals: a grey-haired man in a plaid shirt on a balcony, captioned "Last night."
  • A scene from Tears of Steel, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri on a dark panel: a man with a mechanical eye points ahead and calls "Action!" into a radio.
  • A scene from Meridian, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri with an orange highlight: an older detective in suspenders at his desk, captioned "Nah, not this time."

Scenes from “Meridian” by Netflix (Netflix Open Content, CC BY 4.0) and “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation (mango.blender.org, CC BY 3.0), cut, then reframed and captioned by Snipri, without sound.