Remotion Captions — effect skill for captions & subtitles
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Transcribe speech and burn in animated captions with Remotion, or import an existing SRT file.
- Type: Effect · Captions & subtitles
- Slug:
remotion-captions - Status: live
- Publisher: Remotion (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills/tree/main/skills/remotion-captions
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: Node.js, Remotion 4
- Cost: Free — local render (Remotion company license for larger for-profit teams)
- Adoption: 216,400 installs, 5,750 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Covers the three caption paths in Remotion: generating captions by transcribing audio, displaying and animating them on screen, and importing existing .srt files. Each path has its own reference file, and a post-creation section explains how to adjust captions once they exist.
Use when
- Adding subtitles or animated captions to a Remotion video
- Transcribing a voiceover into captions
- Importing an SRT file
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-captions -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-captions -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-captions -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-captions -a gemini-cli
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/remotion-captions.mp4 — Official preview of Remotion's TikTok template: speech transcribed with Whisper.cpp and burned in as animated word-by-word captions (credit: Remotion, https://www.remotion.dev/templates/tiktok)
Used for
- UGC video ad: A creator-style ad: a person talks to camera about your product, with b-roll, captions and an end card.
- Long video or podcast into shorts: Find the best moments in a long video, cut them, reframe to 9:16 and burn captions.
- Animated captions on your video: TikTok-style subtitles burned into an existing video: word highlight, pop words, or designed editorial captions.
- Lyric video: Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.
More captions & subtitles skills
- 3D Camera Captions: Captions that live in 3D around a talking head: the camera flies through the words, heroes pass behind the speaker.
- ElevenLabs Speech to Text: Transcribe audio and video with word timestamps, speaker labels and keyterms, ready for subtitles.
- ElevenLabs Speech to Text (inference.sh): Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs Scribe, speaker diarization and forced alignment, via inference.sh.
- Speech to Text: Transcribe audio with ElevenLabs Scribe v2 or Whisper V3 Large, with timestamps and speaker labels.
- Pretext Text Metrics: Measure and fit text without the DOM using pretext: auto-fit sizes, know line breaks before render, canvas/WebGL text.
- Chinese Font Selector: Pick Chinese fonts by license tier first (OFL, vendor-free, avoid), then by scene and mood, with Latin pairings.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt