When you use Local 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.

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 using the Descript (web link) export destination with your project instead of the Local export destination. Videos downloaded from a share page will not include embedded subtitles.

We share more information about the local exports and share page functions on our Export and publishing overview help page.