26 - Captions

About this video

This CapCut lesson adds captions after color, graphics, and mix are finished, especially at the beginning of a video to grab attention even when viewers have volume off. From Text in the upper left, the creator selects Auto Captions, sets the source language to English, skips translation, and generates. CapCut reports speech recognized and places captions on the top layer for the entire video, demonstrated on a ‘Getting Sweet with Sam’ clip about banana split sundaes and ice cream cookie sandwiches. With all captions selected, he changes the preset style, tries options described as black on white and yellow and black, switches the font from System to Rubic, and enlarges it to size 7. In the Details panel switched to Captions, individual captions can be split by clicking and pressing Enter to control how long phrases stay on screen, and words can be trimmed, such as removing a repeated phrase. Under Text and Animation, he applies fade in and fade out, tries flutter in, and speeds the animation up; shortening captions can create a word-by-word, short-form style. He notes Apply to All under Text applies style to all captions, while animation applies only to what is selected.

Key takeaways

• In CapCut, auto captions are generated from Text > Auto Captions by choosing the source language and hitting Generate, and they appear as a separate captions track on the top layer.
• Selecting all captions first lets a preset style, font, and font size change apply across the whole video at once.
• Captions can be refined in the Details/Captions list, where pressing Enter splits a caption and trimming removes unwanted words.
• Caption animation is controlled separately under Text > Animation, with in and out effects such as fade or flutter and adjustable speed.
• Breaking captions into shorter pieces, even single words, creates the fast, flashy style the creator associates with short-form content.

Episode details: published January 7, 2026 · 5:20 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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