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Exporting subtitles

Non-landscape layout​

If you export a video in the square layout, then the subtitles will be burned into the video.

The idea behind this is that the square videos are posted on platforms like x.com and LinkedIn, where the video appears in a feed, muted by default.
It is important that the subtitles are always visible and have a large font size.

Landscape layout​

If you export a video in the landscape layout, then the subtitles will be by default exported as a .srt file, located in out/[composition-id]/captions.srt.
This is caused by the use of the <Artifact> API in remotion/captions/srt/EmitSrtFile.tsx.

When posting to YouTube, you should upload the SRT file alongside your video, so that viewers can use the native YouTube feature to toggle the subtitles and adjust the font size.

Burn subtitles​

If you want to burn the subtitles into the video in landscape layout, edit the remotion/captions/srt/SrtPreviewAndEditor/SrtPreviewAndEditor.tsx file and delete the following lines:

remotion/captions/srt/SrtPreviewAndEditor/SrtPreviewAndEditor.tsx
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-  // During rendering, you will get the actual .srt file instead of the preview.
-  if (getRemotionEnvironment().isRendering) {
-    return null;
-  }
remotion/captions/srt/SrtPreviewAndEditor/SrtPreviewAndEditor.tsx
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-  // During rendering, you will get the actual .srt file instead of the preview.
-  if (getRemotionEnvironment().isRendering) {
-    return null;
-  }

Now your video will include the subtitles as an overlay on top of the video.