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Forum Discussion
Replay feature request: download video with burnt-in captions
Hi Replay team,
The blurb for Dropbox Replay video transcriptions feature currently reads:
"You can add transcripts to video and audio files in Dropbox Replay, and create closed captions for videos. Once generated, you can edit the transcript, select a section to skip to that timestamp, and copy or share the transcripts."
I believe it would also be helpful if we could add, "and download a version of a video with closed captions burnt in", or words to that effect. Essentially, the option to download the video with captions - ie what is displayed on the screen in Replay when captions are enabled.
As a stretch goal, it would be helpful to have some simple formatting of the caption format (font, position, size) etc. Yes, our editors/NLEs are able to do this too, but there are good workflow/cycle reasons why it makes sense to do this in Replay: internal/external reviewers are able to review/amend transcripts here (cuts down unnecessarily feedback loops to editors who aren't necessary subject matter experts on the material); we're already generating .SRT caption files in Replay so it's ideal if they are consistent with the captions burnt into the video.
Yes, best practice in many cases is to deliver clean video and an .SRT file so that the viewer/player can choose - but there are still plenty of cases where clients request versions of the video with burnt-in captions.
I know that will be useful for us - anybody else here too?
Thanks,
David
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey SoundsEngaging - thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this with us and welcome to our Community!
I've passed your feedback on to the team and you can let us know if you have anything else to add.
Also note that you can post your feature requests in the Share an Idea area by following these tips in the future.
Cheers!
Hey David, we need you on the DropBox Replay Canny feedback forum too! I posted this about 6 weeks in there:
https://dropbox-replay.canny.io/community/p/option-to-download-with-transcript-baked-in
And Walter ... where is the best place to post feature requests/ideas like this in general? The Ideas forum link you sent here or Canny? 🤷🏽:male_sign:- Walter
Hey Ara Bozadjian - thanks for the post and interest in this!
You can feel free to post any suggestions you may have in the Idea forum and when it comes to Dropbox Replay specifically, you can either post them on the Dropbox Replay Canny feedback forum or the share and idea as well so that other users can upvote the idea(s) too.
