More caption presets, translation, and transcript output

captions.animate went from 4 presets to 11. Alongside hormozi, mrbeast, tiktok, and pill you now get karaoke, word-pop, minimal, subtitle-block, neon, gold, and reveal. Pick a preset, place the captions at the top, center, or bottom, and override the font, colours, stroke, and active-word highlight with a style object when you want something of your own.

Transcript output#

Set captionData: true to also get the data back, not just the burned video. The response carries the word-level transcript with accurate timings plus standard SRT and VTT built from the same cues that were rendered, on output.data. So one call gives you the captioned video and a transcript you can reuse.

Emphasis and translation#

Two opt-in helpers run in our own stack at no extra cost. autoEmphasis marks the important words and paints them in the preset’s accent colour, the look creators use to make key words pop. translateTo translates the captions into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, or Dutch before they animate. Both fall back to plain captions if they can’t run, so a job never fails over them.

Bring your own transcript#

You can also bring your own transcript. Pass an SRT or VTT URL and Rendobar animates your timing instead of transcribing, and pass a font URL with style.font set to its family name to render captions in your brand font.

All of it is in the dashboard playground and the captions.animate reference.

The styling model was extended again in two-line caption phrases and styles.