Caption 21 hears your video, picks the words that matter and lays them on your timeline in one of 30 designed styles. Real Resolve titles, animated, fit to width. No Fusion, no typing.
A connector line, a keyword, a context line. Each one measured from a real edit so the stack sits right on any frame, vertical or wide, HD or 4K. Everything below is playing its real entrance. Hover to replay.
Open the panel from Workspace. It captions only the part of the timeline you marked, on the timeline you are already editing.
It transcribes the speech locally and shows you the text first. Fix a word before it becomes a caption, not after.
Tap one style, or several to cycle. Captions land above your footage as editable Resolve titles, keyword chosen and fit to width.
Local transcription in the language actually spoken, 90+ languages. Nothing is uploaded, no API key, works offline.
Connector, keyword and context stacked with measured clearances. Long words shrink to fit; the block never collides.
The transcript comes back as an editable script with timestamps. Change a word, keep its timing.
Every caption is a native title on its own track. Move it, retime it, change the text in the Inspector.
Built a look you love in Fusion? Save it from your timeline and it becomes a style that works with any words.
Drag where the block sits. Mix keyword captions with plain running subtitles for talking-head edits.
Built a look in Fusion that you love? Save it from your timeline and Caption 21 measures it and turns it into a style that works with any words, entrance and all. Two of ours ship as examples.
Beta: works with two and three line titles. Some very custom comps may need a nudge.
The same clip, playing together. Left is the raw cut, right is what Caption 21 placed on it with one click.
Most caption panels need Studio. Caption 21 runs on both. Same styles, same engine.
Openers and title cards laid out by hand: hero word, credits, script accents. Click one and it lands at the playhead, text editable in the Inspector. Change the font for the whole poster from the panel.
Yes. Free Resolve has no plugin panels, so Caption 21 runs as its own small window that Resolve opens from Workspace › Scripts. Same styles, same engine. On Studio it docks inside Resolve as a Workflow Integration.
It transcribes the language actually spoken, automatically, in 90+ languages (Whisper). Captions are fully tested in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian captions are in beta. It can also translate to English if you tick it.
No. Transcription runs on your computer. The only internet call is the one-time licence activation.
Yes. Every caption is a real Resolve title clip on its own track. Change the text in the Inspector, move it, retime it, or run the panel again to replace them all.
Covers take any font installed on your machine. For captions, save your own Fusion title from the timeline into My Styles and it becomes a style that works with any words. Caption styles keep their own fonts on purpose: their fit-to-width is calibrated per font.
No. One payment, and every 1.x update is free. A future 2.0 may be sold as an upgrade with a discount for existing customers.
Two at a time. Deactivate one from inside the panel to move to a new machine.
Coming soon, for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and newer), on both Resolve Free and Studio. It already runs in our tests; we are finishing Apple's signing so it installs without security warnings. Windows 10/11 is available today. If you buy and it turns out you need Mac, the 7-day refund covers you.