Captionator for Final Cut 4+

The app does what it says. It will transcribe the audio and convert it into titles — essentially an auto-captioner.

Couple issues with that...

1. The separation of the subtitles is at random. So when you watch the video, it'll do this: "Hi! How" — "are you doing" — "today?" It can't recognize natural breaks in speaking to make the captions actually legible. This essentially makes the app unusable.

2. Getting the caption to look exactly how you want is annoying. It's an issue with FCPX, where you can't bulk edit the captions very well. So when you import it from Captionator, you're going to want to move around the captions, but they sometimes get messed up and it becomes a mess.

You would think these issues aren't the devs fault. Well, not really. But apps like Capcut, which is free, allows auto-captioning, editing those captions, all within their editing app. Also, they use AI, so the breaks in the subtitles are natural to read, instead of wrongly paced.

Since this developer is just one guy, he's not updating the app—at least not addressing the main problems.

AI has already turned this app into a dinosaur. There are much better options out there that will actually save you time.

Because honestly, whenever I import captions with this app, I usually end up just changing it all myself.

Been using this for over a year and it got better the whole time. No complaints really, works well for how it has to within the FCPX constraints

I purchased this app after a Youtuber I trust raved about this app. Got it myself and hate it. The timing of the subtitles is almost never accurate. I end up spending about 30-45 additional minutes formatting the titles(changing size, splitting titles to follow the natural flow of speech, and timing the titles to match the spoken words.) Really slows down my workflow, especially when CapCut and Instagram’s auto captioning are timed perfectly. Waste of money. Don’t bother.