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By choosing the video subtitling software, tools, or editor that best fit your needs and working style, you can save a lot of effort and energy to complete your captions and subtitles in a shorter amount of time.

In this article, we have reviewed video captioning tools, subtitle software and machine transcription tools, which are organized in three categories: transcription tools, captioning platforms (browser-based), and captioning software (must be downloaded) to help you choose the one that works best for you.

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Included in each review is a benefits and shortcomings summary for each of them to help you quickly decide which captioning tool has the features that you are looking for. And it may end up that you decide to use more than one of the subtitling tools listed below in your workflow.

One more point before we get started. You may have questions about closed captions vs. open captions since we are focused on closed captioning tools. Closed captions means you can turn them on or off while watching a video. Open captions are added to the actual video and cannot be hidden. Closed captions are generally more beneficial to both audiences and content creators in terms of SEO, but both open and closed captions are great for accessibility. Open captions are good for online video, particularly if you know most of your audience is watching your videos with the sound muted, but it can get complicated if you are subtitling for multiple languages. Check out our discussion at the end of the article for more information.

Otter.ai is a sleek, modern app you can use in your browser and is incredibly generous for free users. Each free account gets 600 minutes of high quality, professional AI machine transcription every month. The output is very accurate compared to most of the machine-transcription tools available online.

For people who want to create their own captions and subtitles instead of using machine transcription, there are a lot of options. We will start with online platforms, which do not require downloads, software updates, or any installation. You can just log in to a website and start adding captions and subtitles to your video online. Then when you are finished, you can publish or download your results directly from the site.

What is cool about this tool is that it supports automatic transcriptions for more languages than Youtube, at the time of writing, they provide 31 languages for automatic transcription including English, Japanese, Mandarin, Hebrew and more. I have tried English and Mandarin and they are both decently accurate.

The following closed captioning/subtitling software requires you to download the software before you start working on your captions. This may be what you need if you prefer to work on captions without having to upload your video. Keep reading to find the best closed captioning software and subtitle maker that fits your needs.

AHD Subtitles Maker is another subtitle software that allows you to move/trim/adjust your captions (visualized as timestamp bars) directly on the video timeline. It also gives you relatively more flexibility to style your captions and supports a variety of export formats.

In this article, we focused on closed captioning tools. There is an important distinction between closed and open captions since they are powered by very different technologies and provide different benefits respectively. Open captions (captions that cannot be hidden from the screen) can be great when you are only using one language, but imagine if your video was distributed internationally. How do you fit 10 languages on the screen and still have a video to watch?

For closed captioning tools, we have reviewed many online video caption editors, which means there are no downloads required or software updates to install. You can just go to a website, log in and start adding captions/subtitles to videos online and publish/download your results directly from the app.

When it comes to actually captioning your video or adding subtitles to the video, you can use either cloud-based closed captioning/subtitling tools or closed captioning/subtitle software and programs that have to be downloaded to your Mac, Windows, or other Operational System compatible machine. Some options we reviewed in the article are:

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Microsoft Stream that comes as part of Office365 has a good stab at transcribing and captioning any video you upload. It gets it a bit wrong but all the timing information is there and you can download and edit the vtt file as well as converting the vtt file to another format that you can use in your video editor. If you have Office365 I would definitely check it out.

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