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Video Captions & Accessibility

Use the Cincopa SRT and captions editor

Review transcript text, timestamps, and speakers, then choose whether to save a draft or publish captions to the player, SEO, and VideoGPT.

Open or upload a transcript

Open the video's caption or transcript controls from its asset settings, or select its transcript in Account Settings → Auto Transcribe & CC. Generate a transcript first if one is not available. See transcript management and transcription for individual videos.

To add prepared captions, choose the language in the asset's closed-caption controls and upload an SRT or VTT file. The SRT editor also provides an Upload action for importing or replacing a transcript. Review the selected language and current transcript before replacing a file.

Correct text and timing

  • Select a row in the transcript table. Its text appears in Edit Text.
  • Correct spelling, recognition errors, or wording so it matches the recording.
  • Review the segment's start and end timestamps and adjust them where needed.
  • Use Create line, Delete line, Insert before, Insert after, or Merge with next to repair segmentation.
  • Play the video preview to check that the text and timing match the audio.
Cincopa SRT editor with timed transcript lines, speaker selection, text editing, and video preview
Cincopa SRT editor with timed transcript lines, speaker selection, text editing, and video preview

Add speaker names

Use Speakers List to add or rename speakers. Select a transcript row and assign its speaker with the Speaker dropdown. Check the assignments throughout the video, especially when people interrupt or change turns.

The publication dialog's Include speaker's name option controls whether those labels appear in the published transcript.

Save a draft or publish

Use Save Draft to keep work for review. When ready, click Publish, choose the appropriate option, and click Save:

  • Save draft: store the edited transcript without publishing it.
  • Publish only for VideoGPT and SEO: make the transcript available for those uses without displaying subtitles in the player.
  • Player and SEO/VideoGPT: publish visible player captions as well as the transcript used for SEO and VideoGPT.
Transcript publication choices for a saved draft, SEO and VideoGPT, or player captions
Transcript publication choices for a saved draft, SEO and VideoGPT, or player captions

After publication, test the actual player and its caption-language selector. A transcript saved only for SEO and VideoGPT is not a visible caption track. Review accuracy before exposing the text to viewers or using it as knowledge for VideoGPT.

Download and manage captions

Use Download for offline review or translation. Back up a transcript before replacing or deleting it. Where the asset's caption list provides Edit or Delete controls, check that you are changing the intended language.

The editor may offer Switch to the old version for access to the previous interface. For account-wide transcription defaults, use Global Settings; those defaults are separate from saving this transcript.