# Sound-Off-Ready Video Without Manual Captioning

> Auto-transcribe speech and burn in styled, animated subtitles from presets. Make sound-off-ready UA and social video without manual captioning. Free on Layer.

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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.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do Video Subtitles work on Layer?

Layer auto-transcribes the speech in your clip, then burns in styled, animated subtitles chosen from presets — no manual transcription or caption timing required.

### Why burn subtitles into the video?

Most social and ad placements play with sound off, and many don't support caption files. Burned-in subtitles guarantee your message lands on every platform, exactly as styled.

### Can I control how the subtitles look?

Yes. You pick from styled, animated subtitle presets, so captions match the energy of the creative instead of defaulting to plain text.

### Do I have to type the transcript myself?

No. The speech in the clip is transcribed automatically; you review the result and apply a style preset.

### How much does it cost to start?

Layer runs on consumption-based Creative Units with no seat fees. Plans start at $10/month for 300 CUs, 10% of unused CUs roll over, and it is free to start with no credit card required.

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Caption your first clip in minutes. Start free on Layer — no credit card required.

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