Adding Captions on Mobile

What's in this article:

• Transcribing your video
• Languages supported by the captions feature
• Making text edits
• Customize caption style 
•  Positioning captions on your content 
•  Resizing captions 
• Caption duration

Why Captioning on Slate

Captioning has become a must-have for video content on social channels, with more than 50% of Millennial and GenZ watching most of their videos with subtitles on, and even more with audio muted.  Create high-quality, professional videos that stand out in today’s crowded digital landscape by adding customized branded captions in Slate. Adding captioning to your videos hasn't always been easy or accessible, with content often having to go through video editors and producers to add branded captions. Slate puts that power in your social producers hands to add captioning to any video you are wanting to create.

Key benefits of captioning on Slate: 

• Fast & Easy to Use: Add, remove, or edit the transcript while auto-syncing with your video
• On Brand by Default: Never lose your brand footprint by having captions in your own font, color, and style

Transcribing Your Video

1. Open the Slate mobile app
2. Select the video(s) you want to add captions to from the 'Media' drawer
3. Scroll to and press the 'Captions' button in the bottom navigation bar to start the transcription process
4. Select the language your speaker is speaking
5. Select how many words you would like to appear on screen at a time
   
6. Once transcribed, captions will be added on top of your media where you can make any edits you need
   

Languages Supported

• English
• Spanish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Dutch

Making Text Edits

1. Once your captions are transcribed, tap the caption text or the captions button
2. Scroll through your captions to proof. If needed, tap the word or phrase that you want to make an edit on
3. Retype the word or phrase as you would like it to show up on your content

Customizing Caption Style

1. Once your captions are transcribed, tap the caption text or the captions button
2. Customize the font style (type, color, highlight, etc.) as you would with traditional text boxes in Slate

Positioning Captions

1. Transcribe your captions
2. Pinch to move the position of your captions

 Resizing Captions

Once your captions are transcribed, there are two ways to resize them:

1. Resizing the text itself

1. Tap the transcribed caption text or the captions button
2. In the caption editor, use the slider size bar to resize

• This option will resize the font itself and potentially change how the words fall within each caption group. Resizing fonts this way allows you more control to format text lines within a caption group.

OR

2. Resizing the captions box

1. Transcribe your captions
2. Pinch to move the position of your caption

• This option will resize the “box” the captions live in as a whole. This will not change any formatting, only the size.

Caption Duration

Inside the timeline view, you can control when and where each captioning segment appears

1. Once captions are applied, tap 'Timeline' from the bottom toolbar
2. Select 'Captions'
3. Use your fingers to pinch and zoom on the timeline and control any text duration by dragging on the sides of each text box