CapCut-Style Animated Captions

Use this skill to create burned-in social captions with word-level timing, pop/bounce/scale animations, karaoke highlighting, and platform-appropriate caption styles. This SKILL is a lean orchestrator; detailed ASS styles, scripts, formulas, and presets are preserved in references/caption-styles-and-generation.md.

When to Use

• Word-by-word or phrase-by-phrase social captions
• CapCut-style pop, bounce, sweep, karaoke, and typewriter captions
• Whisper transcript to animated ASS conversion
• TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and Facebook Reels caption styling
• Caption readability, safe zones, accessibility, and mobile typography

Caption Workflow

1. Generate transcript with word-level timestamps using Whisper or another ASR tool.
2. Convert word timings into ASS events and styles.
3. Use ASS timing units correctly: karaoke tags use centiseconds; animation tags use milliseconds.
4. Burn ASS into the video with FFmpeg.
5. Verify readability, safe-zone placement, audio sync, and final platform specs.