Most of your video's audience never hears it. Feeds autoplay muted, and a creative that depends on VO or dialogue loses its message the moment sound is off. The fix — captions — is traditionally a manual grind: transcribe the audio, time every line, style the text, and redo it all for each new variant.
Video Subtitles automates the whole job. Layer transcribes the speech in your clip, then burns in styled, animated subtitles selected from presets. The result is sound-off-ready video for UA and social — accurate captions with real visual energy, produced in a fraction of the time manual captioning takes.
Key Capabilities
Automatic transcription Layer listens to the clip and transcribes its speech for you. No typing out VO lines, no hunting for timestamps — the words and their timing come straight from the audio.
Styled, animated presets Choose from subtitle presets with distinct styling and animation, so captions carry the creative's tone — punchy for a UA hook, clean for a feature explainer — instead of reading like an afterthought.
Burned-in delivery Subtitles are rendered into the video itself, so they display identically on every platform and placement, including the many that ignore or don't support separate caption tracks.
Works on any clip in your workspace Caption AI generations, lip-synced character lines, edited timelines, or uploaded footage. It's one step inside the same workspace, with 149+ AI models across image, video, 3D, and audio a click away.
Built for variant volume Because transcription and styling are automated, captioning ten variants costs minutes, not an afternoon — keeping subtitles from becoming the bottleneck in creative testing.
How It Works
Pick your clip Select a video with speech — a generated character line, a VO-driven ad cut, or uploaded footage.
Auto-transcribe Layer transcribes the audio and lays the caption timing out for you. Review the text before styling.
Style and burn in Choose a subtitle preset and Layer renders the animated captions into the clip, ready to publish anywhere.
Built for Game Production
UA ads that work on mute Paid social placements overwhelmingly play silent. Burned-in subtitles ensure the hook, the offer, and the call to action land whether or not the sound is on.
Social content at cadence Community clips, update explainers, and event promos all need captions to perform in feeds. Automated subtitles keep a daily or weekly posting cadence sustainable.
Character VO that reads as well as it sounds Pair subtitles with lip-synced character lines and text-to-speech so spoken creatives deliver their message twice — in audio and on screen.
Consistent captions across a campaign Preset styling keeps every variant's captions visually consistent, so a campaign looks like one campaign across networks and formats.
Layer helps 300+ game studios and entertainment brands — including Zynga, SciPlay, Huuuge Games, and Machine Zone — ship video that performs everywhere. Start free and make your next clip sound-off-ready.