Japanese

Three scripts,
one caption line

Japanese runs three scripts at once and has no spaces to break on, which is where most captioning falls apart. Your first video is free.

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New customers pay $7.20 for their first month of Lite 10, then $12/mo. One per customer, limited time.

Where does Japanese captioning usually go wrong?

Not in the characters, which almost any modern typeface carries. It goes wrong at the line break. Japanese has no spaces, so a tool that breaks lines on whitespace has nowhere to break and either overflows the frame or cuts at an arbitrary character. The old typesetting rules also forbid certain characters from starting or ending a line, and a caption that ignores them looks wrong to a native reader even when every word is correct.

In detail

Japanese on a vertical clip

What Japanese doesHow it landsYour move
Kanji, hiragana, katakanaAll three on one lineNothing to adjust
No spaces between wordsBreaks fall by widthGlance at where lines split
Small kana and long marksShould not start a lineWorth a look before producing
Full width punctuationTakes a whole character slotLines hold fewer characters
Mixed Japanese and LatinBoth render togetherCheck the join

Figures here are the ongoing price. A new customer's first month of Lite 10 is $7.20, then $12/mo. One per customer, limited time.

Real clips generated from long videos. Captions and vertical reframing done automatically.

How it works

Three steps, zero editing

01
Bring the recording

Whatever was spoken is what gets written.

02
Choose a typeface

Faces that carry all three scripts.

03
Look at the wrapping

The preview shows every break while you can still move it.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Do kanji render properly?

Yes, alongside hiragana and katakana on the same line.

Is the Japanese translated?

No. It stays Japanese.

How are lines broken without spaces?

By the width of the frame. It is worth glancing at the preview, since that is the part most worth adjusting in Japanese.

Can I correct the Japanese text?

Yes. Line wrapping is the other thing worth a second look at that point.

Can I save a look for next time?

Yes on a paid plan. Lite 10 holds three saved looks and Lite 50 holds ten.

Breaks in the right places

Run one Japanese recording through and watch where the lines wrap. The first one is on the house.

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