Video Caption Overlay

Animated pill-style caption overlays for short-form video. No Premiere, no CapCut — pure Python.

Usage

uv run --with moviepy --with pillow scripts/overlay.py \
  --video base.mp4 \
  --output final.mp4 \
  --captions scripts/example_captions.json \
  --audio music.mp3 \
  --audio-start 8 \
  --audio-vol 0.5

No --audio if you want to keep the original video audio.

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