Adjusting captions in the timeline

You can drag the edges of the captions to reposition them on the timeline. The waveform can help as a visual guide to the audio.

Click and drag in the middle of the caption to reposition the entire caption.

Captions will turn red if they exceed the limits for minimum or maximum durations, or if they overlap. Placing your cursor at the start or end of a caption will display it’s exact start or end time.

You can trim captions with the keyboard shortcuts [ and ]. Position the playhead to the point at which you'd like to trim or extend the caption, and hit [ to change the caption's in-point, or ] to change the caption's out-point.

Ripple edit is a tool for adjusting many captions simultaneously. This can be useful when importing captions from other sources, or if a project's original video has changed, and you need to re-time your captions to fit a new edit.

To use Ripple edit, click anywhere outside of the spreadsheet view, and hit the R key. That toggles Ripple edit on, and you'll see a notification confirming this.

Now, drag a caption in the timeline. Every single caption to the right of the caption you're dragging will be moved as well. To move all the captions in the timeline, simply drag the first caption.

Once you're finished, remember to hit R again to toggle Ripple edit off.

Whilst hovering the cursor over a caption intersection and holding down Cmd (Mac) / Control (Windows), you can perform a “roll edit”, which means you resize two neighbouring captions at once by adjusting the end time of the former, and the start time of the latter in one move.

You can right-click on the timeline to:

If you make a mistake or want to revert a recent change, you can use the undo and redo functions in the top right. These actions are also available as keyboard shortcuts at any time.

If you want to prevent further adjustments to caption timings, you can lock the timeline on the project page.