Export option: ability to export without embedded subtitles. | Voters

Export option: ability to export without embedded subtitles.

Kali Madden

Require the ability to export videos without embedded subtitles.
Please add option to select with or without on export.
"Currently Descript doesn't support videos without embedded subtitles...having the option to select embedded or non-embedded would be helpful."

October 16, 2020

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.

George Fallaw

we need this!!!!

Canny AI

Merged in a post:

Option to turn on/off embedding subtitles during export

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.

December 12, 2024

Canny AI

Merged in a post:

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.

June 12, 2024

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 :)

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...

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...

Devorah Wolf

Agree, this option should exist and be easy to select

Phredd Phlintstone

See Descript support's reply to my concern regarding this below.  A quick test shows that Quicktime player and Safari on Mac display the subtitles, Chrome and streaming from Google drive do not.  I do not see a way to disable subtitles on the former two, nor can I predict what media player my audience will be using.  
I teach a non-English language in an English medium, and the transcriptions are distracting and laughable.  Currently I use Handbrake to strip out the subtitles which is a sub-optimal workflow involving several additional steps, as is support's suggestion to first publish as page the download the video.
If you have the ability to publish a project as a page without subtitles, it probably isn't rocket surgery to provide a switch for same when downloading the video.
Please :-)
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"All transcribed videos exported from Descript will include embedded subtitles (Can I export video files with embedded subtitles?), but they will only be visible if you have subtitles enabled on your media player. 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.
As an alternative, we've found that if you publish the project as a page and then download the video from the published page, the embedded subtitles do not appear. "

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