In today’s rapidly changing video landscape, subtitles are crucial for accessibility, engagement, and audience growth. Even if your viewers are muting, or they speak a different language, subtitles help everyone understand your message. It’s super easy and fun to add subtitles in your videos using CapCut. This blog will guide to process on adding subtitle in CapCut APK– manually or automatically – in full customization to match your content.
Why Subtitles Matter
But captions are more than just words on the screen, they fulfill numerous crucial roles:
Accessibility: Assist viewers who are deaf in understanding your content.
Global Reach: Enable viewers from foreign countries to view your video regardless of the voice-over language.
Mute Watching: Let your videos work even if people are muted.
Increased Engagement: Audiences are more likely to stick around if they can follow the dialogue visually.
SEO Advantages: Thanks to search engines, subtitled content is more accessible and search-friendly.
How to Add Subtitles in CapCut Manually: Step by Step
How to Add Subtitles in CapCut: Adding subtitles manually adds a lot of personalization. Here’s how to do it:
- Open CapCut and Add Your Video
- Open the CapCut app on your phone.
- Tap the “+” icon to create a new project.
- Select the video you’d like to edit and tap “Add”.
Add Text for Subtitles
- Swipe to the toolbar at the bottom and choose “Text”.
- Tap “Add text” to enter a box for typing.
- Add the subtitle you would like to show.
- Change the Look of Subtitles
- Format the font, its ampleness, its fill color, stroke, and background.
Apply effects such as bold, shadow, or glow for that finishing touch.
Adjust Position & Duration
- Drag the text box anywhere onto the screen.
- Resize it until it’s readable.
Determine the timing of your subtitle by placing your text layer at the beginning of your subtitles and dragging both ends of the text layer on the Timeline.
Repeat for More Subtitles
- If you have more lines, simply follow the steps for each additional subtitle.
- For translations / multi-language support, multiple text layers should be created and positioned accordingly.
Preview & Export
- Playback your video to make sure everything is in sync with your audio.
- Make final tweaks, then export your project or share on social media.
Auto-Captioning in CapCut
Want to save time and effort? CapCut has an Auto Caption tool that automatically creates subtitles for your video based on its audio.
Here’s how to use it:
- Select the “Text” tab again.
- Tap on “Auto-Captions”.
- Choose your language.
- If it is a part of the video, then pick “Generate from Video”.
- Click “Generate from Voiceover” if you’ve provided a voiceover.
- CapCut will transcribe your audio and add timed captions to your video automatically.
Once captions are generated:
- Tap any caption to type the text manually.
- Personalize the font, size, style, and color to complement your video.
- Adjust the captions as necessary to fit better on screen.
- Auto captioning can save you time and make you confident that your captions are running in tune with the audio content, even when working with long or multipartner videos.
Final Thoughts
CapCut is not just a mobile editing application, it is a full creative suite for video creators. Whether you’re creating educational content, humorous snippets, or movie clips, subtitles enable you to send your message clearly and show your work to more people.
With CapCut’s text and auto-captioning tools, you can:
- Create more diversity and professionalism in your videos.
- Improve user engagement and retention
- Boost visibility on social media such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram