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
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Chaim Mehlman
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Raúl
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
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
Thank you so much – I spent ages trying to work this out!
Alex Harkness
Peter is it possible to burn-in the captions when exporting via Compressor?
Peter Wiggins
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
just curious whether the captions can be hidden/shown during playback on YouTube.
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