Free tool
Add subtitles in Clipchamp
To add subtitles in Clipchamp from your own file, put them into the video first: Clipchamp’s help covers its autocaptions and describes no way to import an SRT. The free generator below makes the SRT, and the VTT that Microsoft 365’s video player accepts.
- Free
- SRT and VTT downloads
- Nothing is stored
Drop your video or audio file here, or Choose your video or audio file
MP4, MOV, MKV or WebM video, or MP3, M4A or WAV audio. Up to 30 minutes of each file, 3 free files a day. The language is detected automatically.
Recording calls and webinars to edit later? NoteOwl transcribes them on your Mac, unlimited, and saves SRT files with each speaker’s name.
How it works
How do you make subtitles for a Clipchamp video?
Drop the video, or just its audio, on the generator. The speech is transcribed in short pieces and turned into timed subtitles you can read through on the page. Take the SRT to an editor that imports it, or the VTT to the Microsoft 365 video player.
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Choose the file
The raw clip if the subtitles go into the picture before Clipchamp; the exported video if they go beside it in Microsoft 365.
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Drop it on the page
Files are subtitled for their first 30 minutes; each subtitle shows its start and end.
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Download SRT or VTT
SRT for a video editor, VTT for a Microsoft 365 upload.
Can Clipchamp import an SRT file?
Not according to Microsoft’s help. Its Clipchamp pages explain autocaptions and how to download them as an SRT, but none describes bringing a subtitle file in. So an SRT you already have goes into the picture before Clipchamp, or beside the finished video where it’s played.
Use autocaptions
Clipchamp captions the speech itself. Turn them on from the captions icon or the captions tab.
Burn your own in first
Add the SRT to the clip in an editor that imports subtitle files, export it, then edit that video in Clipchamp.
Upload a VTT for work videos
In the Microsoft 365 video player, add the VTT from this page under Video settings.
How do you turn on autocaptions in Clipchamp?
Select the captions icon, or open the captions tab, and turn autocaptions on. To keep them as a file, Microsoft’s help says the personal version saves an .SRT with the download captions button; in the work version, open the transcript tab’s more options menu (...) and choose download as .srt.
That download is an ordinary SRT. Fix a misheard name in the SRT editor, or turn it into WebVTT with SRT to VTT for players that want VTT.
How do you put your own subtitles into a Clipchamp video?
Do it before the clip reaches Clipchamp. Make the SRT here from the raw clip, add it in a video editor that imports SRT files and burn them into the video, then import the subtitled video into Clipchamp and edit as usual.
Working in Premiere Pro? Its page shows the import step by step: captions in Premiere Pro.
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Make the SRT from the raw clip
Its times then match that clip, whatever you cut later in Clipchamp.
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Open the clip in an editor that reads SRT
CapCut on the web or desktop, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro all import SRT files.
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Export with the text in the frames
Burned-in subtitles become part of the picture, so every viewer sees them on every platform.
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Import into Clipchamp
Edit the subtitled clip like any other video.
How do you add captions to a video in the Microsoft 365 video player?
Download the VTT here, open the video’s player page and select Video settings on the right-hand side. Expand Transcripts and captions, select Upload, pick the language and use Select file. Microsoft’s help describes this for the video player formerly called Stream.
- The first line must read WEBVTT
- This page’s VTTEvery VTT download starts with it
- VTT format only
- This page’s VTTUse Download VTT, not SRT
- 4 MB at most
- This page’s VTTWell under: a subtitle file is plain text
- One caption file per language
- This page’s VTTOne VTT for the language spoken; the generator doesn’t translate
- No upload while automatic captions are selected
- This page’s VTTChoose your own file instead of automatic captions
| Rule | This page’s VTT |
|---|---|
| The first line must read WEBVTT | Every VTT download starts with it |
| VTT format only | Use Download VTT, not SRT |
| 4 MB at most | Well under: a subtitle file is plain text |
| One caption file per language | One VTT for the language spoken; the generator doesn’t translate |
| No upload while automatic captions are selected | Choose your own file instead of automatic captions |
Can subtitles for a recorded meeting name each speaker?
NoteOwl does that on a Mac. It transcribes recordings you import with on-device AI models, unlimited, and saves an SRT in which every subtitle begins with the speaker’s name. It also records meetings without a bot. Nothing leaves the Mac.
FAQ
Questions about subtitles in Clipchamp
Can I edit Clipchamp’s autocaptions as an SRT?
Once downloaded, yes. The .srt from the download captions button, or from download as .srt in the work version, is an ordinary subtitle file you can correct in any SRT editor and upload elsewhere.
Does the Microsoft 365 video player accept SRT files?
No. Its help says an uploaded caption file must use the VTT format and start with a line reading WEBVTT. Download the VTT from this page, which meets both rules, or convert an SRT you already have.
Why can’t I upload my caption file in Microsoft 365?
Microsoft’s help gives two reasons: the player takes one caption file per language, and it won’t take one while the video is set to generate automatic captions. The file must also be a VTT of 4 MB or less.
Do burned-in subtitles work everywhere?
Yes. Once they’re in the picture they show wherever the video plays, with no caption file to upload. The trade-off is that viewers can’t turn them off, and the words can’t be changed without exporting the clip again.
Are speaker names in the subtitles?
No names: each subtitle holds the spoken words and their timing. For subtitles that say who is talking, NoteOwl on a Mac labels every speaker.
Does my video get uploaded?
No, the video file stays on your device. The page sends short pieces of its sound to a cloud AI transcription service, which transcribes and discards each piece; the subtitle file is written in your browser, and NoteOwl keeps nothing.
How much video can I subtitle?
3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes. A longer recording is subtitled up to that point; for full-length meetings, NoteOwl transcribes on your Mac with no cap.
Keep exploring
More subtitle generator tools
- Subtitle generatorA free AI subtitle generator: drop in a video or recording and download SRT or VTT subtitles timed to the speech, two short lines per cue; only the sound is sent, nothing is stored
- Subtitles for LoomLoom says it can’t take a subtitle file: fix its own captions through the transcript, or caption your own copy of the recording with an SRT made here
- Subtitles for YouTubeMake an SRT file from your video free in the browser, then upload it in YouTube Studio under Subtitles, step by step
- Subtitles for CapCutMake an SRT with short lines for vertical video, then import it in CapCut on desktop or the web
- Subtitles for Premiere ProMake an SRT from your footage, import it into Premiere as a caption track, restyle it and export it burned in or as a file
Subtitles with names, from recordings on your Mac
Free to download. Runs entirely on your Mac.
macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) · 16 GB memory minimum, 24 GB recommended
About NoteOwl
NoteOwl is private AI meeting notes and memory for the Mac. It captures meetings without a bot joining the call, labels every speaker, writes summaries and action items, and builds a memory of every conversation that you can chat with — fully offline, because the speech recognition and the AI run on the Mac itself. Dictation into any app is free; Pro is a one-time purchase.
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