# Captions Translated Into Another Language > Your video with captions in another language, timed to the speech. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/captions-in-another-language [Captions](https://cut.express/prompts#captions) Your video with captions in another language, timed to the speech. - **Pipeline**: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music. - **Format**: 9:16 and 16:9 - **Upload**: The finished video. ## The prompt Type your own words into the fields: the [BLANKS] fill in as you go. Copy it and send it to Claude or ChatGPT with Cut Express connected. Prompt ``` My video is in [SPOKEN LANGUAGE]. Make a transcript, then add captions in [TARGET LANGUAGE]: translate each line yourself and keep it on screen while that line is spoken (captions source items, one item per spoken line, with its start and end). - Clean preset, white with a black stroke, 2 lines at most, bottom third. - Keep [NAMES AND BRANDS] as they are, untranslated. - Change nothing else in the video. Show me the first ten lines of the translation before you render. ``` ## The blanks - **[SPOKEN LANGUAGE]**: The language people speak in the video. - **[TARGET LANGUAGE]**: The language of the captions. - **[NAMES AND BRANDS]**: Names, products and terms to keep in their original form. ## Tips - Translated captions are lines, not word-by-word: a word highlight can't follow a language that isn't spoken. - Read the first lines of the translation. A note about tone ("informal, like a friend") changes all of them at once. New to prompting video? [How to write a good prompt for Cut Express](https://cut.express/prompts/guide) covers the story, the hook, captions, sound, pace and how to iterate with versions. ## Paste it in Claude. Get the MP4. [Start your 7-day free trial](https://cut.express/#pricing) [Or get the Mac app](https://cut.express/#desktop) 7 days free, then $19/mo. Cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing. Related prompts [All 35 prompts](https://cut.express/prompts) Basic edit9:16 ### [Add Captions to a Finished Video](https://cut.express/prompts/add-captions-to-a-video) Your finished video with word-by-word captions, nothing else changed. Upload: The finished video. ``` Add captions to the video I uploaded and change nothing else: same cuts, same sound, same length. Make a transcript first (language: [LANGUAGE]). Captions: [CAPTION PRESET] preset, font [FONT], [WORDS PER LINE] words per line, 1 line, the spoken word highlighted in [CAPTION COLOR], positioned [POSITION] so they never cover a face or the text already on screen. Fix the spelling of [NAMES AND BRANDS] if the transcript gets them wrong. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/add-captions-to-a-video#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/add-captions-to-a-video) Basic edit9:16 ### [Branded Caption Style for Every Video](https://cut.express/prompts/caption-style-match-brand) A caption style in your brand that you reuse on every video. Upload: One recent video with speech to try the style on. ``` Design a caption style for my brand and try it on the video I uploaded (make a transcript first). Brand: [BRAND COLORS], font [FONT], feeling [TONE]. - Try the style as v1: your pick of preset adapted to the brand, the spoken word in the accent color, [WORDS PER LINE] words per line. - When I approve it, write the caption style out as a short block I can paste into future chats ("captions: preset ..., font ..., colors ..."). ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/caption-style-match-brand#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/caption-style-match-brand) Basic edit9:16 ### [Shorts From One Long Video](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video) Several vertical Shorts cut from one long video, each with captions. Upload: One long video with speech (a podcast, a talk, a stream, a course lesson). ``` I uploaded [LONG VIDEO], about [TOPIC]. Inspect it with moments and a transcript, then find the [NUMBER OF CLIPS] strongest moments that make sense on their own, each about [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds. Before you render, list them for me: the in and out times, the first line said and why it works as a hook. Wait for my pick. For each one I pick: - Start on the hook line, no warm-up. Cut the silences and the false starts on the speech. - 9:16, cover crop kept on the speaker's face. A slow punch-in on the key sentence. - Captions from the speech: bold preset, 3 words per line, the key word in [CAPTION COLOR], bottom third. - Clean the voice (denoise and enhance). No music unless I ask. Render each as its own video titled "[SERIES NAME] 1", "2", and so on. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video)