Guides for adding, syncing, styling, and fixing captions in CapCut.
Karaoke-style captions aren’t just about showing lyrics anymore. Have you noticed how some videos highlight each word perfectly with the beat, while others just dump a full sentence on screen? One feels alive. The other feels… flat. That difference matters. On platforms like TikTok and Reels, timing and movement are what keep people watching. Here’s…
You want captions, but you also want voiceover. Or your video has no human speech and needs narration. Or you’re creating content in multiple languages without recording separate audio tracks. CapCut’s Text to Speech (TTS) feature generates synthetic voice from text—but combining it with captions requires specific workflow knowledge to avoid sync disasters and robotic-sounding…
Auto captions are fast, until they get it wrong. When CapCut mangles your brand name, misses technical terms, or skips lines entirely, you need a backup that actually works. Manual captions aren’t just a fallback, they’re often the smarter choice when precision matters. The problem? Most creators try to avoid them because they imagine typing…
Your auto captions are done, but the text looks messy. Some words are capitalized, others aren’t. Brand names look off. The whole thing feels inconsistent. You want that clean, bold, all-caps style you see on TikTok and Instagram. It looks sharper, more intentional, and easier to read. The problem? CapCut doesn’t give you a simple…
Most CapCut captions sit flat on top of your video. But if you want your captions to look more cinematic, you can make them appear behind a person, product, shoulder, wall, or foreground object. CapCut does not have a simple “send captions behind object” button, so the effect has to be created with a workaround:…
Static captions make your words readable, but animated captions make people stop scrolling. Think about it: a line that gently bounces in, a phrase that slides smoothly from the side, or a key word or phrase that pops just at the right moment. These subtle motions don’t just look cool they keep viewers engaged, improve…
You already have the script. Maybe it’s a YouTube transcript, a podcast episode, a course lecture, or something a client sent over. The words are written. Edited. Final. Now comes the annoying part, turning all that text into perfectly timed captions in CapCut… without retyping everything or fixing a ton of auto-caption mistakes. Here’s the…
If you scroll TikTok or Instagram Reels, you’ve likely seen captions that move with life—text that flows in, wobbles subtly, and feels alive. These “smooth captions” or “bouncy text” give videos a polished, professional look and instantly grab attention. The challenge: CapCut doesn’t offer a preset called “smooth bounce.” The default Bounce animation is too…
You exported your video, and the captions play twice. Or they loop continuously throughout the video, repeating the same phrase while the audio has moved on. Or worse: the first caption appears correctly, then every subsequent caption is a duplicate of the first one, creating surreal nonsense that doesn’t match your audio at all. This…
You want your captions to do more than just display text. You want them to emphasize, guide attention, and brand your content. Color is the fastest way to signal importance: keywords in bright yellow, questions in curious cyan, calls-to-action in urgent red. But CapCut’s default caption styling is monochrome, and the color change tools are…