Remove Embedded Subtitles in Exported Videos

When you export a video file from Descript, subtitle cards are automatically embedded into the file. This allows services that support embedded subtitles to give viewers the option to enable or disable the subtitle text.

If you have captions in your composition, this can lead to duplicated or doubled captions in your export.

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Web players often display the embedded subtitles from your exported composition during playback, but these will only appear if subtitles are enabled in the media player. If this happens, you can disable subtitles directly from your web player.

To avoid embedding subtitles, consider publishing your project instead of exporting. Videos downloaded from your publish page will not include embedded subtitles.

We share more information about the export and publish functions on our Publishing and exporting overview.