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Captions & Accessibility

Every clip captioned. Zero effort from you.

85% of social video is watched without sound. Short Shorts AI burns word-accurate captions directly into every clip — so your message lands whether viewers have headphones in or not.

Burning captions into clip…

Captions that look custom — generated automatically

From raw transcript to styled, burned-in captions in every clip — no SRT files, no third-party tools, no manual sync.

Word-level timestamps extracted

Use cases

Captions unlock reach across every audience

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Silent scrollers

Capture the 85% of viewers watching on mute in public places, offices, and quiet spaces.

Accessibility

Make your content inclusive for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences without any extra work.

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Global audiences

Captions help non-native speakers follow along — expanding your reach internationally.

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Mobile-first viewers

Phones default to mute. Captions keep mobile viewers engaged through the whole clip.

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Podcast clips

Audio-only content finally works as video — captions carry the whole story.

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Educational content

Learners retain more with text reinforcement — captions double as on-screen notes.

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Corporate content

Webinars and interviews become accessible short clips with zero production cost.

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SEO & discoverability

Platforms use caption text as indexable content — boosting search visibility for your Shorts.

What you get

Caption quality that matches pro editors

Word-accurate timing

We use word-level timestamps from Whisper or YouTube captions — each word appears exactly when it's spoken, not a second off.

Styled for short-form

Captions are sized, positioned, and styled to match modern Shorts aesthetics — bold, readable at a glance, never obstructing faces or key content.

Fully automatic

No SRT upload, no manual sync, no caption editor. Captions are generated and burned into every clip without you lifting a finger.

Multi-language support

Whisper supports 99 languages — if your video has spoken audio, we can transcribe and caption it.

High contrast rendering

White text with a black outline ensures captions are readable on any background — bright beaches, dark stages, or anything in between.

Burned-in permanence

Captions are rendered into the video file itself — they appear everywhere: feeds, stories, embeds — no platform support required.

How it works

From transcript to burned-in captions

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Transcript with word timestamps

YouTube captions or Whisper speech recognition produces a full word-level transcript — every word tagged with its exact start and end time in the source video.

18,432 words with timestamps
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Caption segmentation & styling

The AI groups words into natural-reading segments that fit the screen. Font size, position (lower third), and style (Impact with outline) are applied to match pro short-form standards.

Caption segments styled
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FFmpeg burn-in render

FFmpeg overlays the caption ASS/SRT stream directly onto the video pixels — permanently part of the file. The final MP4 plays with captions on any device, any platform, any player.

Captions burned into MP4

Flexible workflow

Auto captions or custom style — your call

Ship captioned clips on autopilot, or dial in the exact look and feel you want.

Fully Automated

Auto Mode

Captions are generated, styled, and burned into every clip without any input from you.

  1. 1Submit your video URL — transcript is extracted automatically
  2. 2AI segments the transcript into clean caption blocks
  3. 3Default style (white Impact, black outline, lower third) is applied
  4. 4Captions are burned into every exported clip before publishing
Style Your Captions

Custom Mode

Choose your caption style, font, and position to match your brand.

  1. 1Pick a caption preset or configure font, size, colour, and outline weight
  2. 2Set caption position (lower third, centre, top) per platform
  3. 3Preview captions on a sample clip before processing the full batch
  4. 4Approve the style — captions are then burned into all clips automatically

Why Short Shorts

Short Shorts vs Opus Clip

Usage-based pricing means you pay $0.20 per published Short — nothing more. No subscriptions, no caps, no surprises.

Feature
Short Shorts
Opus Clip
Pricing model
Pay per published Short ($0.20)
Monthly subscription ($19–$199/mo)
Clips per $1
5 clips per dollar
0.25–2 clips per dollar
Monthly cap
None — pay only for what publishes
Hard cap based on plan tier
Auto-publish to X
Yes — full X/Twitter pipeline
Not supported
Auto-recharge
Configurable balance top-up
No
Scheduled publishing
Prime-time slots per platform
Manual only
Playlist monitoring
Auto-process every new upload
Manual trigger
Custom overlays
Full branding designer
Template-only on lower tiers
API access
Yes — programmatic clip generation
Enterprise only

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Every clip. Every viewer. Every device.

Don't let muted phones bury your best content. Burn captions in automatically and reach every viewer who would have scrolled past.

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