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Closed Captions or Subtitles?

February 3, 2024January 14, 2023 by Sarah Mercier

Several years ago, I was working on an elearning course to teach police officers about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I was at the stage where it was time to add captions to the videos we had curated. I had been using a tool called Descript to transcribe the videos, but there was one video that … Read more

How to Add Closed Captions to Your Videos

June 4, 2024September 2, 2022 by Sarah Mercier

Felix the cat video with caption that reads "Good work, Goldie. Keep it up!"

Goal: Add closed captions (CC) to a video without burning them in. This gives the user the ability to toggle CC on and off. What you’ll need: Descript, Handbrake, and your video in an .mp4 format. If you already have a caption file in an .srt format, skip down to the Embed captions in video … Read more