Burned-in captions, start to finish

Burned-in captions, start to finish
A tidy pipeline so vertical clips never ship with wrong-timed text:
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Auto-transcribe pass, then a manual scrub at 0.5x to catch homophones — via Descript guide [tutorial]
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Readability checklist: 2 lines max, 32 chars per line, 1.5s min duration — via Vimeo Captioning 101 [free]
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Safe-zone overlay template keeping text off the bottom 250px for UI bars — via Jannik Obenhoff [free]
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Stroke + drop-shadow preset for legibility on any background — via Motion Array [plugin]
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Karaoke-style word highlight without keyframing every word — via Submagic walkthrough [tutorial]
Export one test clip muted on a phone first; readability dies on small screens.