Writing
A closer look at better captions.
Notes from building a captioning engine — the standards we read, the things we got wrong, and the numbers behind decisions that are usually described as taste.
How to make captions readable on bright footage
Choose between darker text, an outline and a background plate by looking at what passes behind the words.
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Fix broken Hindi captions: text, font or layout?
A diagnostic sequence for misplaced vowel marks, unexpected glyphs and clipped Devanagari in exported video.
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How to check Hinglish captions before publishing
Separate mixed speech, Roman spelling and translation, then use a repeatable correction pass.
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What gets written here, and what does not
Start with the problem in your footage: captions disappearing on a bright background, Devanagari marks looking wrong, or Hindi-English speech appearing in the wrong script. Each guide gives you checks to run before you export.
The articles link to standards and product documentation where those sources help. Written examples illustrate a decision; they are not transcription benchmarks or evidence that one tool is more accurate than another.
