Subtitles for After Effects
Subtitles for After Effects, as Editable Layers
Export your captions as an After Effects script that rebuilds every line as a native, editable text layer with its original timing. No manual keying, no retyping, no plugins. Restyle and animate the captions in After Effects with full control.
How It Works
Captions in After Effects in Three Steps
Skip typing and timing subtitles by hand in After Effects. Generate them once, then bring them in as timed text layers.
Upload Your Video
Drop in an MP4, MOV, MKV, or WebM file. The spoken language is detected automatically, or you can set it yourself.
Generate and Refine
The speech is transcribed with word-level timing. Edit or regenerate any line, and translate the captions if you need a localized version.
Export the Script
Export the After Effects script and run it in After Effects to build every caption as a timed text layer.
Capabilities
Captions That Land in After Effects Ready to Animate
Native text layers with the timing already set, so you spend your time designing captions instead of transcribing them.
Editable Text Layers
Each caption comes in as a real After Effects text layer, not a burned-in image, so you can restyle, animate, and reposition it freely.
Original Timing Preserved
Every layer is placed on the timeline at the exact in and out point of the line it came from, so the captions are already in sync.
No Manual Keying
Skip typing captions and setting keyframes by hand. The script builds the whole caption track for you.
Word-Level Accuracy
The captions are transcribed with word-level timestamps, so each line starts and ends on the right frame.
Translate First
Translate the captions into any of 21 languages before exporting, and bring a localized caption track into After Effects.
Other Exports Too
Also export SRT, VTT, a transparent overlay, or a burned-in video from the same project.
How It Works
From Export to Editable Layers
The export is a standard After Effects script, not a flat file. Running it rebuilds your captions as native layers you fully control, so you start from design instead of data entry.
Run the script
Open After Effects and run the exported script from the Scripts menu. There is no plugin to install.
Editable text layers
Each caption is created as a real text layer, not a burned-in image, so you can restyle it freely.
Timing preserved
Every layer is placed on the timeline at the exact in and out point of the line it came from.
Restyle and animate
Change fonts, colors, and position, and add motion, just as with any text layer you built yourself.
Exports
Export to Any Format
The After Effects script is one of several exports from the same project, so you can hand editors a sidecar file or a transparent overlay too.
After Effects (.jsx)
Export captions as an After Effects script that rebuilds every line as editable text layers with the original timing.
SRT file
Standard SRT sidecar file, ready for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, YouTube, and every major editor and platform.
VTT file
WebVTT sidecar file for web players and HTML5 video, with styling cues supported.
Transparent overlay (MOV / WebM)
Export the captions on their own as a clip with a transparent background, ready to drop as an overlay onto any timeline.
Video with burned-in subtitles
The full video exported with styled captions baked in, sized for landscape, square, or vertical.
Export your first captions to After Effects free, right in the browser.
Try For FreeMade for Motion Work
Motion Designers
Bring captions into After Effects as text layers and design them to match the rest of your composition.
Animated Captions
Build kinetic, word-by-word caption animations on top of layers that already carry the right timing.
Ads and Promos
Style captions to the brand and animate them into high-end promos and product videos.
Title and Lower-Third Design
Use accurate, timed text layers as the starting point for titles, lower thirds, and callouts.
Social Video
Design punchy captions for vertical social edits without transcribing the audio by hand.
Agencies and Studios
Turn a transcript into an editable caption track in minutes, so artists start from design, not data entry.
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FAQ
Common Questions
Generate the captions in Voice Creator Pro, export the After Effects script, and run it in After Effects. Every line becomes a timed, editable text layer you can restyle and animate, so there is nothing to type or key by hand.
It is a script that creates one editable text layer per caption, each placed on the timeline at the exact in and out point of its line. The layers carry the caption text, so you can style and animate them like any other text layer.
No. The export is a standard After Effects script, which you run from the Scripts menu. It uses built-in scripting, so no third-party plugin is required.
Yes. Because each caption is a native text layer, you have full control over font, color, position, and animation, exactly as if you had created the layer yourself.
It works with any recent version of After Effects that supports running scripts, which covers the standard Creative Cloud releases.
Yes. Translate the captions into any of 21 languages first, then export the After Effects script to bring a localized caption track into your composition.
Yes. Voice Creator Pro Cloud has a free tier you can start with no credit card. For heavier use there are paid Cloud plans, or the desktop app for unlimited offline generation.
Get Started
Bring Your Captions into After Effects
Generate accurate, timed captions and export them as editable After Effects layers. Start free in your browser, or work offline with the desktop app.