Remotion Captions

Transcribing, displaying and animating captions

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Install

$ npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-captions

$ npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

All captions must be processed in JSON. The captions must use the Caption (opens in a new tab) type which is the following:

import type { Caption } from "@remotion/captions";

This is the definition:

type Caption = {
  text: string;
  startMs: number;
  endMs: number;
  timestampMs: number | null;
  confidence: number | null;
  pageBreakAfter?: boolean;
};

Generating captions

To transcribe video and audio files to generate captions, load the transcribe-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

Displaying captions

To display captions in your video, load the display-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

Importing captions

To import captions from a .srt file, load the import-srt-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

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How this issue was made

Source: github.com/remotion-dev/skills, branch main, last pushed 24 September 2026.
Licence: All rights reserved — view on GitHub — with no detectable licence, this issue links rather than republishes: the skills are omitted from the agent manifest and from the whole-book markdown.
Discovery: 12 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed: skills/*/SKILL.md.
Issue colours: Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 254°, chroma 0.190. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.
Heading repairs: None needed in this skill: the outline was already valid.
Spec compliance: Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.
Images: Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.
Signal: Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.
Agent surfaces: The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /remotion-dev/skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.
Publication: Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

All captions must be processed in JSON. The captions must use the Caption (opens in a new tab) type which is the following:

import type { Caption } from "@remotion/captions";

This is the definition:

type Caption = {
  text: string;
  startMs: number;
  endMs: number;
  timestampMs: number | null;
  confidence: number | null;
  pageBreakAfter?: boolean;
};

Generating captions

To transcribe video and audio files to generate captions, load the transcribe-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

Displaying captions

To display captions in your video, load the display-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

Importing captions

To import captions from a .srt file, load the import-srt-captions.md (opens in a new tab) file for more instructions.

Remotion Captions

Generating captions

Displaying captions

Importing captions

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Remotion Captions

Generating captions

Displaying captions

Importing captions

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Appendix 2.1–2.5

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