Captions need four mobile-viewing checks after transcription
Quick answer
Check wording, timing, line breaks and obstruction separately so that captions remain readable at their actual playback size.
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Verify facts before styling
Compare the transcript with the audio, prioritizing names, product terms, numbers and negation. Turning “cannot” into “can” can change the meaning far more than a punctuation error.
Relisten to unclear passages instead of inventing a definite statement from context. Keep notes for the speaker to confirm, and complete proofreading before layout.
Give each caption one readable unit
Split by meaning. Avoid breaking a product name across lines or separating “not” from the rest of its phrase. Equal caption lengths are less important than understanding, and reading speed must fit each segment’s duration.
Mobile safe areas are tighter than desktop previews. Avoid application controls, mouths and key product details. Check the actual portrait video instead of relying only on the editor’s large preview.
- Check proper names and numbers against the audio.
- Adjust line breaks around meaning.
- Reduce to mobile viewing size and inspect obstruction and contrast.
Play through the timeline
Check whether captions reveal the next sentence too early, disappear too quickly or leave unrelated words during a pause. Cuts are particularly prone to mismatches between captions and footage.
In tokensmore.ai, confirm supported caption inputs and export types. If you need an editable caption file, inspect the actual download. Text visible in a video does not prove that a separate caption file is included.
Keep an editable version and the final delivery
Archive the corrected text, timing version and final video, noting changes verified by listening. Future translations or recuts can then start from a documented script.
Check reading length and line breaks again in another language. Reusing every original time segment unchanged may squeeze a translation into three or four lines on mobile.
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