> Canonical: https://www.cliphi.com/tools/burn-captions-into-video

# Burn Captions into a Video

Paste or upload your video and Cliphi burns animated captions directly into the export, so they show on every platform.

## How it works

1. **Paste a link or upload your video** Drop in a supported video link or upload a file. Cliphi pulls the audio and reads what is said.
2. **AI captions every word** Cliphi transcribes the speech and lays animated captions over the video, synced word by word.
3. **Style it, then post** Pick a caption style and tweak the font, color, size, and position, or keep the default. Then download or publish to your socials.

## Why Cliphi

- **Travels to every platform** Download the clip once and post it to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The captions come with it every time, looking the same, with nothing to re-upload or re-sync.
- **Hardcoded, still styled** Burned in doesn't mean plain. Cliphi animates the words and lets you set the style, font, color, and position before it renders them into the picture.
- **Watchable on mute** Most short-form gets watched with the sound off. On-screen captions are usually the difference between someone watching and someone scrolling past.

## Captions that are part of the video

A separate subtitle file is easy to lose, and a lot of feeds ignore it or display it their own way. Burned-in captions are part of the picture, so they show up the same everywhere you post, on mute, with no extra file to upload. Cliphi transcribes your video and burns the captions straight into the export for you.

## Burned in, but still styled

Hardcoded does not mean plain. Cliphi animates the captions word by word and lets you pick the style and match the font, color, size, and position before it renders them in. The export is clean with no watermark, so the clip looks like you made it, not like you reposted it.

The captions come from \[accurate transcription\]\(/tools/audio-to-text\) that handles accents, several speakers, and noise, in around 99 languages. And because Cliphi is a clip tool, you can paste a long video and get \[captioned vertical clips\]\(/tools/youtube-to-tiktok\) with the captions already burned in, ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

Burned-in captions travel better too. Download the clip and post it across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, and the captions come with it every time, looking the same, with nothing to re-upload or re-sync per platform. That is the difference between captioning once and fighting each app's subtitle handling separately. If you ever want to change the wording or the style, you re-render rather than editing a fragile sidecar file.

## FAQ

### What does burned-in mean?

It means the captions are rendered into the video itself rather than added as a separate file, so they always show, the same way, on every platform.

### Can I change the wording later?

You re-render rather than editing a separate file. Change the text or the style and Cliphi bakes the new version in, so there's no fragile sidecar file to keep in sync.

### Which languages work?

Around 99 languages, the full set Whisper supports, with the language detected for you.

## Related

- [Add Captions to Video](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/add-captions-to-video.md)
- [Audio to Text](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/audio-to-text.md)
- [YouTube → TikTok](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-tiktok.md)

## About Cliphi

Burn captions into your video. Paste a link or upload a file and get captions baked in.

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