Addis Captions · preview 0.1.0

Amharic captions,
right where you edit.

Addis Captions turns Amharic speech into timed captions with Addis Scribe. It runs on your own computer, or through the Addis AI API if you prefer. Export SRT or VTT for CapCut, or create captions directly inside Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Download for MacAll downloads
Works with
CapCut, Premiere, After Effects
Exports
SRT, VTT, ASS
Runs
Offline or cloud
Downloads

Version 0.1.0

Start with the Mac app. The panels for Premiere Pro and After Effects need the app running, because the app does the transcription.

FileForSizeSHA-256
Addis Captions for Mac
Addis-Captions-0.1.0-macOS-arm64.dmg		macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon6.6 MB8be635aad2cba1d7e134c589f62052e4aefa9cde50c99c676c277632d477a837
Premiere Pro panel
Addis-Captions-Premiere-0.1.0.ccx		Premiere Pro 25.6 or later8 KB933529e695c2fe821769568ba162e687abf3790a75e699b0e56f036e30026cd0
After Effects panel
Addis-Captions-AfterEffects-0.1.0-unsigned.zip		After Effects and Premiere Pro 22 to 25.510 KBb3be69a8e08942ff314be0b7313c34b6a21bafc899c6844667bf90ff1a1c2cea

This is a preview build. The Mac app is not yet signed by Apple: the first time you open it, Control-click the app and choose Open, or allow it under System Settings › Privacy & Security. Windows and Intel Mac versions are coming. Checksums are also in SHA256SUMS.txt.

The After Effects panel is not yet signed by Adobe. To install it, allow unsigned panels once with defaults write com.adobe.CSXS.12 PlayerDebugMode 1, then unzip it into ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/ai.addis.captions.cep and restart After Effects.

Set up

Pick how it transcribes

Open Addis Captions, then Settings. Choose On this computer and download the model once (499 MB). Nothing leaves your computer, and it needs about 1.6 GB of free memory while captioning. Or choose Addis AI cloud and paste an API key.

CapCut
  1. Drop your video on Addis Captions and check the captions against the audio.
  2. Choose Export SRT.
  3. In CapCut, open Captions, then Add captions, then Import file, and pick the SRT.
Premiere Pro
  1. In Addis Captions, open Settings and choose Install panels, or double-click the panel file.
  2. In Premiere Pro, open Window, then Plugins, then Addis Captions.
  3. Pick the audio track with Amharic speech and choose Create captions. The captions arrive as an SRT in your project, ready for a caption track.
After Effects
  1. Install the panel (see the note below the downloads).
  2. In After Effects, open Window, then Extensions, then Addis Captions.
  3. Choose Create captions. Each caption becomes its own text layer, timed to the speech. One Undo removes them all.
Captions

How captions are made

  • Captions break at pauses, with at most two lines of 42 characters and between 0.83 and 7 seconds on screen. You can change these in Settings.
  • Each caption is timed from Addis Scribe's word timestamps and adjusted so it appears as the speaker starts and stays until they finish.
  • SRT and VTT carry text and timing only, so style them in your editor. Export ASS to keep the font, colours and word highlighting.
  • Addis Scribe writes no punctuation yet, so captions break at pauses rather than at the end of sentences.

Building your own?

The same captions are available in the API: add timestamps=word to a Scribe transcription, or ask for format=srt.

Read the docsAbout Addis Scribe