Export option: ability to export without embedded subtitles.
Canny AI
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Allow CC Hiding
Chris Rock
The new timeline is good but all exports now include onscreen Closed Captioning that can't be turned off. I understand accessibility and SEO, and the need to have this in the metadata, but having CC automatically onscreen no matter what completely wrecks our ability to affect or control the design of the video and how captions appear. If you eliminate the old timeline soon without this feature being adjustable, it will seriously affect whether we use Descript for our social content.
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Kai Brunner
After multiple re-renders, and combing through the entire UI thinking I must have missed a setting, I found my way to this thread.
So, to the Descript product management team, after wasting 45 minutes trying to remove the embedded subtitles that redundantly display below the animated captions I selected, I'm spelling it out: it creates a confusing visual for the viewer. This is a basic usability issue.
As I'm seeing here that this embedded subtitles issue has been documented, and the requests to address this have been submitted enough times for you to recognize that it is problematic, please satisfy us customers, and fix this.
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George Fallaw
we need this!!!!
Canny AI
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Option to turn on/off embedding subtitles during export
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Nikolai Eidissen
PROBLEM:
Practically all video players (online and offline) automatically display embedded subtitles when available. The embedded subtitles are automatically shown on top of any hardcoded captions when the video is played back. This is a big problem.
Easy Solution:
Users of Descript must get the option to turn on/off adding embedded subtitles when exporting videos.
- Please fast-track this, this is very important and extremely easy to implement. Should take a matter of minutes.
Canny AI
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Ability to publish without subtitles
Martin Carlsson
Then exporting subtitles are baked in. It would be great if there was an option to avoid that.
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Storm Elworth
Adding to this as well. Would be great to be able to export without the subtitles track. Clients like to open files in Safari (on mobile) where it'll automatically run/attach the subtitles and is confusing to end users! Would love to see it as an option :)
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Łukasz Matuszewski
Ok, I have just found this fragment from Phredd Phlintstone comment: "I would recommend making sure that subtitles/closed captions are disabled in your media player if you don't want to see those going forward.", and indeed, when I have changed subtitles to "hidden" they are not added anymore as a layer on the video. I have them included in the video as a text, but I can turn them off in my video player. BUT... I will not ask every person I sent this video to turn off the subtitles (which are garbage in my case). I just would like to export video without them...
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Łukasz Matuszewski
I've found "Captions" menu with options to change the captions opacity or hide the layer (eye icon). But... it just doesn't work... I tried "hide", opacity 0%, opacity 1%... nothing, captions always looks the same... And it wasn't easy to find the caption's options... Without the ability to hide/edit the captions freely, as I want, this software is useless for me... I really don't understand how it is, that Descript has so many good reviews... I'm tech-savvy and using this tool wasn't easy at all.
Day One Coach
Folks, surely, we should be able to pick if we want subtitles exported or not...
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Devorah Wolf
Agree, this option should exist and be easy to select
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