How to Add Hindi (Devanagari) Captions to Your Videos

First, an honest note on automatic transcription

CapMagic Studio's automatic captions currently understand English speech only. For Hindi videos you provide the text yourself, by pasting a script or importing a subtitle file, and the app handles timing, styling and burning the captions into your video.

Choose a font that supports Devanagari

Many popular caption fonts only include Latin letters. Hindi text in those fonts falls back to a different system font, or shows empty boxes. In CapMagic Studio today, choose Poppins: it is the one font in the list that includes Devanagari letters, and its Hindi and English letters match, so mixed Hindi-English captions look consistent.

The other fonts (Impact / Bebas, Montserrat, Inter, Roboto, Anton, Oswald, Bungee and Luckiest Guy) are Latin-only. Dedicated Hindi fonts will be added when automatic Hindi captions are supported.

Three ways to add Hindi text

1. Paste Script: open the Transcript tab, click Paste Script, paste your Hindi script and click Generate Word Timestamps. Then play the video and adjust each line's start and end time to match the speech.
2. Import a subtitle file: if you already have Hindi subtitles as .srt or .vtt (from a translator or another tool), use Import SRT. Timings come from the file.
3. Edit line by line: caption the video, then replace each line's text with its Hindi version.

Styling tips for Devanagari

• Size up slightly. Devanagari has vowel signs above and below the letters; a slightly larger size keeps them legible.
• Keep the stroke moderate. Very thick outlines can fill in the small gaps in conjuncts.
• UPPERCASE has no effect on Devanagari (it only changes Latin letters), so design with that in mind.
• Fewer words per screen. Hindi words are often longer visually; 2–3 words at a time reads comfortably.
• Hinglish (Hindi written in Latin letters) works with every font, and is popular for casual content.

Example workflow for a Hindi Reel

1. Write or type your script in Hindi (for example in a notes app, using a Hindi keyboard or Google Input Tools).
2. Open CapMagic Studio, select your video, and wait for processing. You can ignore the English auto-captions if your video is in Hindi.
3. Open Transcript → Paste Script, paste your Hindi text (one sentence per line works well) and generate the caption lines.
4. Set Font Family to Poppins, the font in the list that includes Devanagari letters.
5. Play the video and adjust each line's start and end time so it matches the speech.
6. Choose colours and placement, then Export Video.

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