Captions

Goal: people watching on mute can follow; the captions are just there, never in the way.

Source

The verbatim transcript mapped onto the current timeline (follow the creator's trims), not Resolve's own auto-captions (a second, less accurate transcription). Drop words on B-roll (radio lyrics, background talk).

Clean, not verbatim

Captions show what they mean, written correctly:

Stutters: "pro-product" → "product", "da-da," → "da,".
Cut-off words: "es--", "A--" → gone.
Filler sounds: drawn-out "uuum", "hããã", "ééé" → gone. Careful with real words that look like fillers ("um" = "a" in Portuguese, "é" = "is").
Self-corrections: "get a, an appointment" → "get an appointment".
Spoken short forms → correct written forms, if the creator asks. Brazilian Portuguese example: cê/cês → você/vocês, tá → está, tô → estou, tava → estava, tamo → estamos, vamo → vamos, pra/pro → para/para o, né → não é, "o que que" → "o que", "por que que" → "por que", "tu consegue" → "você consegue"; "tão" → "estão" only before a verb in -ndo ("tão bonito" stays). Keep expressions and swear words (fix grammar, not voice). Keep capital letters at sentence starts when you shorten.
Names and spellings checked on the web (transcripts garble product names), and the creator's own name exactly as they write it.
Don't reveal what the creator wants kept secret (a place, a company) even if they say it.

Keep two lists: global rules (word map + phrases) in config, per-video fixes in caption_fixes.json. Apply phrase fixes after the word map.