AI captions in 26 animated styles
Every Scenes AI video can have word-level animated captions burned in, in any of 26 styles — and the style is chosen automatically to suit the format, so a Short gets punchy word-by-word captions while a story gets something calmer. Each render also produces SRT and VTT subtitle files you can upload separately.
Twenty-six styles, picked for you
You can choose one, but you do not have to — the default follows the kind of video you are making.
- Styles include tiktok, hormozi, karaoke, cinematic, typewriter, neon, glow, fire, lightning, bounce, wave, shake, glitch, explosive, 3d and gradient.
- YouTube Shorts default to a bold word-highlight style; Reels default to karaoke; stories default to a restrained cinematic style; poems fade.
- Font, size, colour, highlight colour and position are all adjustable if the default is not what you want.
- On vertical video the caption size increases and the position moves to centre automatically, because bottom-anchored captions get covered by platform UI.
Timing that actually matches the speech
Word-level timing comes from running the finished audio through speech recognition, not from estimating durations from character counts. That applies to narration generated by a speech engine and to dialogue the video model produced itself, so lip-synced scenes get accurate captions too. Captions are paged rather than dumped on screen — six words at a time by default.
Subtitle files, not just burned-in text
Burned-in captions are right for social. Uploaded video usually wants a sidecar file as well.
- Every render produces both SRT and VTT files alongside the video.
- Both use the same word-level timing as the burned-in captions, so they cannot disagree.
- Useful where captions must be toggleable, or where a platform requires a subtitle file for accessibility compliance.
Captions in the language you chose
The language you pick governs everything the audience hears and reads, captions included. Where a scene contains quoted non-English dialogue, the video engine is explicitly told the language so it does not translate it back to English — which would leave the captions and the audio saying different things.
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