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Shorts and reels
Loud, word-by-word captions sized for a tall frame, kept inside the centre column when you cut vertical from a wide shot.
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Captions
Animated captions that stay editable. Captions listens to your sequence on your own machine, times every word to the voice, and places one caption clip per line on a free track in Premiere Pro, or a Captions comp in After Effects. Pick a style, watch it play on your own words, then create.
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Download Captions ✦ Free to start
Captions is free to start. Five styles are free to use, no card needed. The full library of 111 styles, Review, and Bulk come with Filmit Studio, along with our whole suite of plugins, effects, and transitions.
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Watch the Demo
See Captions in Action
Premiere Pro
Demo coming soon
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After Effects
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Style Library
111 looks. One click each.
Every style is a whole caption design: a font, colours, an outline or a plate, and one animation. Click any style to play it, then change the lines, the position, and the frame.
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This is a web preview of the real styles. In the panel, the Style Library plays each one on your own captions, over your own frame.
Get Started
How to get Captions
Three steps and you are up and running with Captions, right inside your editor today. Free to start.
1
Create your account
Sign up free at filmit.io. No card needed.
2
Install Filmit Studio
Download the free desktop app for Mac or Windows. It manages every tool for you.
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Install Captions
One click from the tools list, and it opens inside your editor. Start a 7-day trial whenever you want everything unlocked.
The Problem
Captions should not take longer than the cut.
Most people watch with the sound off, so every video needs captions. Getting them styled, timed, and on brand is where the hours go.
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Styling every caption by hand
Getting the words on screen is the easy part. Making them look like your brand means restyling, repositioning, and re-checking, one caption at a time.
✓ One style and one layout for the whole sequence
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Word-by-word means keyframes
The read-along look, where each word lights up as it is spoken, is hundreds of tiny keyframes if you build it yourself. Then the edit changes.
✓ Every word is timed to the voice for you
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Round trips to another app
Export the video, upload it, style it in a browser, download a file with the captions burned in. Change one word and you do the whole trip again.
✓ Captions never leave your timeline, and stay editable
Features
From spoken words to finished captions.
Captions is not a subtitle file with a font on it. It is a full caption workflow inside Premiere Pro and After Effects: get the words, set the look, and build real clips you can keep editing.
Transcribed on your machine
Captions listens to your sequence with Whisper, right on your computer. Nothing is uploaded, there are no per-minute fees, and the engine is shared with the other Filmit tools, so it is a one-time download.
Starts from what you have
Already made a caption track in Premiere Pro? Captions reads it and keeps your line breaks if you want. You can also paste a script or import an .srt file.
111 styles, 22 animations
From a quiet fade and a subtitle plate to read-along, boxed words, typewriter, and loud creator styles. Browse them in the Style Library and star the ones you reach for.
Every word lands on time
Precise word timing lines each word up with the voice, so the highlight arrives when the word is said. Want it a touch earlier? Nudge Word timing by ear with the sound playing.
See it before you commit
The preview plays the real look on your own captions, over the frame under your playhead, with safe margins, a snapping grid, and a zoom for judging an outline or a shadow.
Layout that fits the frame
One, two, or three lines. Nine positions, or drag the captions where you want them. A Vertical 9:16 frame keeps them inside the centre column of a wide shot.
Editable after you create
In Premiere Pro every caption is a Motion Graphics clip you adjust in the Properties panel. In After Effects one Caption Controls layer restyles every caption at once.
Change your mind later
Update all captions applies a new style or layout to the captions already on your timeline. Remove captions takes every one of them off again.
Premiere Pro & After Effects
One panel for both apps, on Mac and Windows, matched to each app's look. It needs Premiere Pro 2025 or After Effects 2025, or newer.
How it works
Get the words. Set the look. Create.
The panel reads top to bottom, and so does the job: three stages from a sequence with a voice in it to captions on your timeline.
Stage 1 · Captions
The words, timed to the voice.
Transcribe listens to your sequence on your own machine and times every word. Or start from what you already have: the caption track on your Premiere Pro sequence, a pasted script, or an .srt file.
- Runs on your machine, audio is never uploaded
- The whole sequence, or only In to Out
- Teach it names and unusual words before it listens
- Leaves out sound descriptions like (music) if you want
Stage 2 · Layout and Style
Set it once for the whole sequence.
Choose how many lines a caption may use, where it sits, and how big the type is, then pick a style. The preview plays it on your own words, and Customize is there when a style is nearly right.
- One, two, or three lines per caption
- Nine positions, or drag the captions into place
- Vertical 9:16 keeps captions in the centre column
- Customize the font, colours, outline, spacing, and animation
Stage 3 · Timeline
One editable caption per line.
Create places one animated caption clip per caption on the first free track above your edit, so nothing you cut is touched. In After Effects you get a Captions comp. Change the look later and Update all captions restyles them in place.
- Captions go on their own track, above your edit
- Each caption is a clip you can move, trim, or retype
- Update all captions applies a new style or layout
- Remove captions takes every one off again
Line up with the voice
Recut after captioning? They follow the voice.
A caption track made before the last round of changes plays early or late. Captions notices, and fixes it for you.
Out of step in. In step out.
When you read captions from Premiere Pro, the panel listens to the sequence. If the captions are out of step with the sound, it moves every caption, and every word, to where it is spoken.
Your text stays exactly as you wrote it. The result is remembered for that sequence, and one link under the caption source switches back to the caption track's own timing.
No retyping, no nudging captions down the timeline one at a time.
Whole projects
Fix a name once. Caption everything.
Two tabs for the days when it is not one video, it is forty. Both come with Filmit Studio.
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Review
The doubtful words, in one list
Review lists the words the transcription was unsure about, and names spelled more than one way. Type the right spelling and fix it across this sequence, or across every sequence on your Bulk list.
- Click any caption to retype it
- One fix corrects a name everywhere it appears
- Remembers the fix for every future transcription
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Bulk
The same look on every sequence
Bulk puts one layout and one style on many sequences in Premiere Pro, or comps in After Effects, one after another. Transcribe them all first, check the words in Review, then create.
- Pick from a tick-list with search and a bin filter
- Add a whole bin, or drag in your selection
- Uses a Premiere Pro caption track when a sequence has one
Review and Bulk run entirely on your machine. Nothing is sent anywhere.
How it compares
Caption forty videos, not one.
Premiere Pro's own captions and browser caption apps work one video at a time. Captions has Bulk: one look across every sequence you pick, with the words checked first.
Captions Premiere Pro built-in captions Browser caption apps
Animated, word-by-word captions Captions111 styles and 22 animations, every word timed to the voice Premiere Pro built-in captionsStyled text, with no word-by-word highlight animation Browser caption appsYes, in the app's own templates
Editable after you create CaptionsOne editable clip per caption, and one click restyles them all Premiere Pro built-in captionsA caption track you can edit Browser caption appsUsually a rendered video or a subtitle file
Your footage stays with you CaptionsTranscribed on your own machine Premiere Pro built-in captionsTranscribed on your own machine Browser caption appsUploaded to their servers
After Effects CaptionsThe same panel, building a Captions comp Premiere Pro built-in captionsPremiere Pro only Browser caption appsOutside your editor
Many videos at onceThe big one CaptionsBulk: one layout and one style across every sequence or comp you pick Premiere Pro built-in captionsOne sequence at a time Browser caption appsEach video is its own upload and project
Fix a name everywhere CaptionsFixed once across every sequence, and remembered for next time Premiere Pro built-in captionsFind and replace, one sequence at a time Browser caption appsOne video at a time
Cost of a long video CaptionsNo per-minute fees, and five styles are free Premiere Pro built-in captionsIncluded with Premiere Pro Browser caption appsUsually a monthly plan with minute or export limits
Bulk and Review come with Filmit Studio. Compared with Premiere Pro 26.3 and the usual workflow of browser-based caption apps. Features vary by app and plan.
Stays editable
Real clips, not a burned-in render.
What Captions builds is yours to keep adjusting, with the tools you already know.
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Premiere Pro
One Motion Graphics clip per caption
Click any caption on the timeline and change its text, font, colours, or animation in the Properties panel. Move it, trim it, or delete it like any other clip. The captions sit on their own track, so your edit underneath is never touched.
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After Effects
A Captions comp with one control layer
Every caption is a layer in a Captions comp, and one Caption Controls layer restyles them all at once. From there it is ordinary After Effects: retime a caption, add effects, or animate on top.
Free to start
Five styles, free to use.
Without a subscription, Captions still works. Transcribe, lay out, and create with the five styles below. Every other style still plays in the Style Library, so you can see exactly what Filmit Studio adds.
Five free styles
CleanSubtitleSoft RiseRead AlongBold Social
Two quiet line styles, two word-by-word styles, and one loud one for shorts.
Make them yours
FontWeightColoursOutlineSize
Change a free style to match your brand, and save one style of your own.
The whole workflow
Local transcriptionPremiere caption tracksLinesNine positionsVertical 9:16
Create, update, and remove captions as often as you like.
A Filmit Studio subscription adds the full library of 111 styles, the rest of Customize, more saved styles, Review, and Bulk. It unlocks as soon as your licence is active.
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Built for anything with a voice.
If someone is speaking in your video, Captions gets the words on screen in a look that fits the piece.
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Podcasts and interviews
Read-along captions that follow the conversation, with names fixed once in Review and spelled right from then on.
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Documentary and brand films
Quiet subtitle plates and serif fades that sit under the picture without shouting over it.
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Courses and tutorials
A whole series captioned in one look with Bulk, so lesson twelve matches lesson one.
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Ads and social cut-downs
Captions in your brand font and colours, saved as your own style and ready for the next version of the spot.
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Finished caption tracks
Already captioned in Premiere Pro? Keep the text and line breaks you approved, and turn them into animated captions.
Setup
From a voice to captions in four steps.
No upload, no export, no second app.
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Open your sequence
Open the sequence in Premiere Pro, or the comp in After Effects, and open the Captions panel.
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Get the captions
Click Transcribe, or From Premiere to use the caption track that is already there.
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Pick the look
Set the lines, position, and size, then choose a style and watch it play on your own words.
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Create
One click places an editable caption per line on a free track. Restyle them any time with Update all captions.
FAQ
Common questions
Everything you need to know about Captions.
No. Captions transcribes with Whisper on your own machine, so nothing is uploaded and there are no per-minute fees. Review and Bulk work the same way. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, as one panel on Mac and Windows. It needs Premiere Pro 2025 or After Effects 2025, or newer.
Yes. To change all of them, pick a new style or layout in the panel and click Update all captions. To change one, click its clip on the Premiere Pro timeline and edit the text, font, colours or animation in the Properties panel. In After Effects, one Caption Controls layer restyles every caption in the Captions comp.
No. Every caption is its own clip on your timeline, on the first free track above your edit. You can move, trim, retype or delete each one, and Remove captions takes them all off again.
Yes. From Premiere reads the caption track already on your sequence and keeps your line breaks if you choose As captioned. Once the animated captions are on the timeline, hide the native caption track so the text does not show twice.
Yes. That usually means the cut changed after the captions were made. When you read captions from Premiere Pro, the panel listens to the sequence and, if they are out of step, moves every caption and every word to where it is spoken. Your text stays as it is, and one link switches back to the caption track's own timing.
Press Sound under the preview and move Word timing until the highlight lands with the voice, then click Update all captions. Precise word timing, on by default, lines each word up with the audio for you.
Yes. Captions follows the frame of your sequence, and tall frames get larger type automatically. In a wide sequence, the Vertical 9:16 frame keeps captions inside the centre column, ready for a vertical crop.
English works out of the box. Other languages need a multilingual Whisper model, and Settings lists the languages and tells you where the model goes. With one installed, Captions can also translate speech to English.
Free: five styles (Clean, Subtitle, Soft Rise, Read Along and Bold Social) with your own font, colours and outline, the whole Layout section, local transcription, and one saved style of your own. A Filmit Studio subscription adds the full library of 111 styles, the rest of Customize, more saved styles, Review and Bulk.
Yes. The full Captions library is included with your Filmit Studio subscription at $20/month, along with every other Filmit tool, effect and course. Try it with a 7-day free trial.