VEED Subtitles: Auto Captions, Styling, SRT Export and Translation

VEED generates subtitles automatically on every plan, Free included, and transcribes more than 100 languages. The meter is minutes, not AI credits. Free gives you 10 minutes of auto subtitles a month, with watermarked 720p exports; every paid plan lifts that to unlimited under a fair-use cap of 50 hours a month.^[1] Paid plans start with Creator at $25 per editor seat billed monthly, or $12.25 per seat a month billed annually. Two gates decide most purchases. Downloading an SRT or VTT file needs Pro or higher, and translation in volume also starts at Pro. For burned-in captions on social clips, Creator is enough. Multilingual work needs Pro.

Captioning a video in VEED, start to finish

The workflow is short, but the order matters. VEED's help center warns that editing a video after its subtitles exist can push the timestamps out of line, so subtitles should be regenerated once all edits are done.^[2] Cut first. Caption last. Subtitles can come from three sources: the Auto-subtitle tool, lines typed by hand, or an uploaded SRT or VTT file. Auto subtitles are available on all plans, with the monthly limits shown on the pricing page. The sequence below follows the help center's own steps and warnings.

1. Finish the edit: trims, B-roll, and any Magic Cut pass (it removes silences, filler words and repeated takes, works in English only, and is free on every plan).
2. Run auto subtitles on the final timeline.
3. Review the words flagged in orange, which are the ones the transcription is least confident about.
4. Style the captions, covered in the next section.
5. In the export window, switch on Burn Subtitles if the captions should be hardcoded into the file.

Auto-generated subtitles also unlock Edit with Script, VEED's text-based editing, which works on every plan. Typed or uploaded subtitle files do not enable it. That is a practical reason to auto-generate even when a finished script already exists: you can trim by deleting words, export a highlighted passage as a new clip without touching the original project, and then regenerate the subtitles once the cut is locked. Teams that receive caption files from an outside transcriber can upload them instead, but that route skips transcript editing entirely.

What each VEED plan includes for subtitles

Every workspace member is billed as a seat, including the owner and any pending invite, so a three-editor team pays the seat price three times. The 50-hour cap is generous: by our arithmetic it works out to 100 minutes of captioned video a day across a 30-day month. Free is the tighter constraint, since 10 minutes covers about five two-minute clips, and its exports are watermarked, capped at 720p and limited to 10 minutes in length. Our guide to VEED's Free plan and its limits covers the rest.

The billing choice is arithmetic. If a team needs Pro for subtitle files, monthly billing wins only for short stints. Six months at $45 comes to $270, already above the $265 annual charge, so annual is cheaper for anyone who needs the plan six months or longer. Five months or fewer, pay monthly. Paid plans are charged upfront and are not refunded once you have used the service, which our VEED pricing guide explains with the full credit variants.

Styling captions: Dynamic Subtitles, brand fonts and speakers

Styling covers the usual controls: outline, shadow, background box and animation, plus Auto Highlight and Auto Emoji. Dynamic Subtitles add animated styles, and VEED's help center lists them as unlimited on all plans, provided subtitles already exist in the project. The February 2026 update added three presets called Handwritten, Whisper and Fusion. Fonts come from the Brand Kit, and you can upload one straight from the font picker while editing subtitles. Creator gets one Brand Kit limited to fonts and colors. Pro and higher get multiple kits, which matters for agencies captioning for several clients.

The limits are specific. A project can carry only one subtitle style, and changing the font, scale or animation of a single word is not available yet. The workaround VEED gives is to export the video, upload it again and subtitle the new copy, which hardcodes the first set. Detect Speakers, on Pro and higher, is the exception that helps interviews: it assigns separate subtitle styles per speaker. Pro's pricing data also lists custom vocabulary, useful when product names or jargon keep coming back misspelled. Lower plans fix those words by hand.

Burned in or a separate file: choosing the export

Burned-in captions travel with the file, so they show up wherever the video is uploaded. That suits short social clips. VEED has no direct publishing to social platforms, so every export is downloaded and uploaded by hand. Resolution follows the plan: 720p on Free, up to 1080p on Creator and up to 4K from Pro. The cost of burning in is permanence. Hardcoded subtitles cannot be translated later, so keep the editable project with live subtitles if other languages might follow.

Separate files are the right choice for YouTube uploads, course platforms and accessibility workflows that expect a caption track. VEED exports subtitles as SRT, VTT or TXT, but downloading them is a Pro feature, and only SRT or VTT files can be uploaded back.^[3] An SRT file holds text and timing only, with no fonts or colors. The styling you built stays inside VEED. That gate surprises Creator buyers. A Creator seat can caption, style and burn in, yet it cannot hand a caption file to another platform.

Translating subtitles and dubbing the audio

Translation covers 50+ languages, needs AI credits and is metered in minutes per target language: a 30-minute video translated into two languages uses 60 minutes of allowance.^[4] Language support is uneven at the edges. Some languages, such as Asturian, Breton and Tibetan, can be transcribed but not translated, while others, such as Balinese and Quechua, work only as translation targets. A project shows one subtitle track at a time, so multilingual viewers need separate exports or separate files. Uploaded SRT files can be translated too.

The allowance sets the real ceiling. VEED's pricing data lists it as voice translation: 30 minutes a month on Pro and 60 on Studio, or 6 and 12 hours a year on annual billing. By our arithmetic, 30 minutes covers a 10-minute video in three languages, and 60 minutes covers it in six. Higher-credit variants of each plan add AI credits only, so the translation minutes stay at the base tier's level. Creator gets at most a small translation allowance, and VEED's own pages disagree on its size. Plan accordingly. Translation in volume starts at Pro.

Dubbing goes further and replaces the audio. It supports 29 target languages and more than 70 source languages, takes roughly 5 to 10 minutes for a 20-minute video, and uses one voice for every speaker. Optional lip sync is in beta, can take hours and downsamples the video to 1080p. Free and Creator get a one-time try; Pro includes 6 hours a year and Studio 12 hours a year. Proofreading a dub and uploading an SRT to steer it are Enterprise-only. Failed dubs return their credits automatically.

Captions on mobile, the Lite app and the Subtitle API

The VEED app on iOS and Android, where it has been on the Play Store since 21 September 2026, includes auto captions that can be translated into 50+ languages, under the same account as the web editor. VEED Lite is a different product: a separate iOS captions app, formerly VEED Captions, billed through its own Apple subscription. It does not detect multiple speakers and burns subtitles into its exports. Moving a Lite project into the web editor is one-way. Elements become hardcoded and subtitle styles do not transfer. Whether a web plan unlocks Lite is disputed in VEED's help pages, so check in the app.

Developers have a third route. The Subtitles API, launched on 18 May 2026, runs on fal.ai and is billed by fal through a fal account. VEED prices it per processed minute at $0.10 for basic styles up to 1080p, $0.20 for dynamic styles or above 1080p, and $0.40 for dynamic styles above 1080p, with a 1-minute minimum per job. It offers 28 styles, word-by-word highlighting and bring-your-own SRT, but no translation. Editor plans and their credits never cover it; our VEED API guide covers the rest of the developer side.

The bottom line

VEED's subtitles are easy to start with and generous on paid plans, where 50 hours a month of fair use covers almost any team. The decisions sit at the gates. Creator handles auto captions, styling and burned-in exports for social video. Pro is the floor for caption files, speaker styles and translation in volume, and annual billing beats monthly once you keep it six months or more. Caption the final cut, keep the editable project, and budget translation in minutes per language before you promise a client five versions.