✳ CAPTIONS · PODCASTS APP
Burned-in captions captions for Podcasts App
Caption QA + Podcasts App compatibility. Drop a Burned-in captions file to validate it against Podcasts App's caption rules. Stays on your device.
Podcasts App · accepts Burned-in captions directly
Text rendered directly into the video frames - never falls off, cannot be turned off by the viewer.
What this checks
- Format auto-detection (SRT vs WebVTT) and parse errors
- Per-cue reading speed (warnings above 21 chars/sec)
- Negative timestamps and zero-duration cues
- Cue overlap and ordering
After validating, create all platform versions in the Creator: /tools/pack
Automate this in Koldflux