Translated Subtitles For Any Export

You can now export subtitle files, and burn in captions on Social clips, in any language your transcript has been translated into.

What It Is

If you've used AI Translate to turn a transcript into another language, that translation now carries all the way through to subtitles. The Subtitles export (.srt or .vtt) has a Language choice, and it starts on whatever language the globe is showing. Pick German, and you get a German subtitle file. Every line keeps the exact timing of the original, only the words change.

The Problem It Removes

Before this, a translated transcript helped you make selects in your own language, but the subtitle file still needed separate handling. Now the same translation that let you work through a recording in your language can also become the caption track your client or audience actually reads, with no extra pass through another tool.

How It Works

Say you're cutting a panel recorded in French for a client who needs English subtitles on the final video, plus a few Spanish-language social clips for a separate market. You run AI Translate once, picking English and Spanish. In Select, Arrange or Review, the globe button switches the view between Original Language and either translation. When you get to the Subtitles export, the Language choice is sitting right there, already defaulted to whichever language the globe was showing. In the Social suite, the Subtitles step has its own Caption language choice, so a clip can burn in Spanish captions while the source audio stays French. If you trim a word on the original line, that trim carries into the translated view automatically, and you can still drag word-level timing directly inside a translated view since it maps back to the exact source words.

Who It Helps Most

This is for anyone delivering to an audience that doesn't share the recording's language: agencies producing social clips for multiple markets, documentary editors delivering subtitled cuts to international clients, podcast teams clipping for audiences abroad, or marketers repurposing one talking-head recording into captioned clips for several languages at once.

Good To Know

• Playback, timecodes, the original Transcript, the timeline XML export, and the word-timed JSON always stay in the recording's own language.
• If you edit a line after translating it, that line reverts to the original language until you translate it again.
• You can delete a translated language from the globe menu, except for Original Language and whichever translation is currently open.

Try it with your next translated project in ScriptCut.