How To Get Free Auto Captions on CapCut PC (No Pro Needed), by StreakRants on YouTube. 1 min 23 s.
- Video length
- 1 min 23 s
- Time to do it
- 10 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 10
What you need
Steps
Open CapCut on your computer and create a new project. Import your video file into the media panel and drag it onto the timeline.
Click the Text tab and try Auto captions. If CapCut asks you to pay for Pro, close that panel. You will make the captions yourself instead.
In your browser, open a free caption generator like Captions Crate. These tools run in the page and hand you an.SRT file at the end.
Upload your video to the tool, pick the spoken language, and start the automatic transcription. Wait for it to finish.
Read through the generated text and fix names, numbers and misheard words. Then export the result as an.SRT file.
Return to CapCut and open the Text tab. Choose Local captions or Import captions to load a subtitle file from your computer.
Select the.SRT file you downloaded and confirm. The captions appear as their own track above your video.
Play through the timeline and adjust the caption track if the timing drifts. Split or merge lines where the breaks look awkward.
Style the captions once, then apply the change to all of them: pick a readable font, size, outline and screen position.
Export the video at your chosen resolution. The captions are burned into the finished file.
Tips and common mistakes
You can also drag the.SRT file straight into CapCut's media panel and drop it on the timeline, where it lands as a caption track.
Save the.SRT file as UTF-8 so accented letters and symbols import without garbled characters.
Keep each caption line short, around 32 characters, so it stays readable on a phone screen.
Browser-based tools keep the footage on your machine, but check the tool's privacy note before uploading sensitive video.
Questions
Do I need CapCut Pro for this?
No. You only use CapCut's free editing tools to import and style a subtitle file you already made. The paid auto caption feature stays unused.
Will the captions have a watermark?
No. Imported.SRT captions are plain text on a caption track, so nothing is added on top of your video.
Why are my captions out of sync after import?
The.SRT timing may not match the exact clip you placed on the timeline. Slide the caption track left or right until the words line up with the speech.
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