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How to Export from Final Cut Pro X with Burnt-in Captions

January 28, 2019 9 Comments

How to Export from Final Cut Pro X with Burnt-in Captions

Exporting burnt-in captions from Final Cut Pro X is easy, but the process isn't immediately obvious.

In this tutorial below we show the steps needed to export burnt-in captions from FCPX. We also highlight some options available should you want to output anything different to the default style. 

 

Although the ability to add captions was added in FCPX 10.4.1, it wasn't until 10.4.4 that the option to burn them in on export became available.

Find the Tracking Callouts plugins we mentioned here

Find Spherico's X-title Caption Convert here

Find FxFactory's Caption Burner here

 





9 Responses

Luke G.
Luke G.

September 30, 2021

Best, easiest advice and direction I’ve ever gotten… problem solved and I didn’t even need to write anything down to do it.

Chaim Mehlman
Chaim Mehlman

March 29, 2021

Many thanks for this tip!! If I’d found it earlier I would have still had some hair left.

Suzanne
Suzanne

June 16, 2020

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Raúl
Raúl

June 16, 2020

Hi. I work for a transcription company (https://traduccionexperta.com/servicios/transcripcion/) and I would like to know whether is it possible to use SRT files or not for this procedure.
Thanks a lot and best regards.

Colin
Colin

June 16, 2020

Thank you so much for this video. I’d never done captions, so imagine my surprise upon viewing the rendered footage to se no captions. Quick search and et voila, your youtube video appeared. It’s rendering right now.

Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper

March 05, 2020

Thank you so much – I spent ages trying to work this out!

Alex Harkness
Alex Harkness

August 18, 2019

Peter is it possible to burn-in the captions when exporting via Compressor?

Peter Wiggins
Peter Wiggins

February 10, 2019

Terry,
YouTube will build its own captions anyway, but you can upload your caption file on export to Youtube through YouTube’s Creator Studio.

Terry
Terry

February 10, 2019

just curious whether the captions can be hidden/shown during playback on YouTube.

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