240 articles about video editing.
A caption generator listens to the speech in your video and writes it on screen as timed text. Three of the four below are built into something you already have, at no cost. None gets every word right, so budget five minutes for corrections.
A video collage for Instagram is one of two things: several clips playing at once in a grid, or several clips playing one after another. The grid needs an app outside Instagram. The sequence you can build in a browser in ten minutes.
The best app is the one already holding the photographs. Google Photos builds a scored video from pictures you tap, iMovie adds the slow zoom that stops stills looking static, and Clipchamp hands back a clean 1080p file with nothing stamped on it.
To use Clideo add audio to video, you upload the clip, drop a track underneath, set the two volumes, and export. It takes about three minutes in any browser. The free plan stamps the result with a Clideo mark.
When an iPhone video has no audio, the sound is missing from the file or missing from playback, and a second video tells you which. If that one plays fine, blame the recording: a blocked mic, a screen recording, or an unreadable codec.
To merge videos on Android with nothing installed, open Google Photos, tap Create, then Highlight video, and pick your clips. For a plain end-to-end join with no template over the top, install CapCut. Both cost nothing.
You can cut video with VLC player, but only by recording a stretch of playback to a new file. There is no timeline, no scissors and no way to take a chunk out of the middle. For one cut at one end it is fine.
To crop videos Android already has in Google Photos, open the clip, tap Edit, tap Crop, and drag the frame or pick an aspect ratio. Nothing installs. Every crop throws pixels away, which is the part worth thinking about first.
Search for a subtitle edit program and two things come back: Subtitle Edit, an open source app for .srt files, and any video editor that burns text onto the picture. Which you want depends on where the subtitles live.
Final Cut Pro auto captions live under Edit, in a command Apple now calls Generate Captions. Select the clips that have speech, choose Generate Captions then Subtitles, and each clip comes back with a subtitle title attached to it. The transcription runs on the Mac.
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