Animated Subtitle Maker
You know the look: each word pops onto screen the instant it's spoken, the key word flips to yellow, the whole line bounces on the punchline. Doing that in After Effects means keyframing hundreds of words per video. Eliro's animated subtitle maker builds the same kinetic captions from your audio automatically—every word timed to the syllable, every animation applied in one pass.
Every Kinetic Caption Style, Minus the Keyframes
The animation library that used to take a motion designer
Word-by-Word Reveals
Each word appears exactly as it's spoken—pop, fade, slide, or typewriter. The reveal rhythm follows the speaker's actual cadence, not a fixed interval.
Karaoke-Style Highlights
A moving color sweep tracks the audio through each line, the style that dominates podcast clips and motivational edits. Set the highlight color once and it carries through.
Automatic Keyword Emphasis
The AI spots the load-bearing words in each sentence and scales, recolors, or bounces them—so the visual stress falls where a motion designer would put it.
Syllable-Accurate Timing
Animations are driven by the transcript's word timestamps, so nothing lags or fires early. The motion feels attached to the voice, not pasted on top.
Animate Your Captions Without Opening After Effects
Upload Spoken Video
Any video with speech—talking head, podcast clip, tutorial. The AI transcribes it and timestamps every word.
Pick an Animation Style
Choose a kinetic style—word pop, karaoke sweep, bounce, color emphasis—and watch it preview live on your own footage, already in sync.
Tune the Motion and Export
Adjust animation speed, colors, and which words get emphasized, then export with the animated captions rendered into the video.
Why Motion Captions Hold Viewers Longer
The Styles Driving Short-Form Right Now
The bouncing word-pops and color-sweep captions you see on the biggest YouTube and TikTok channels are template presets here. Apply one, swap in your brand colors, and your captions read as current instead of 2019.
Animated Captions in Any Language
Translate your subtitles into 50+ languages and the animation timing carries over—word reveals re-sync to the translated text, so a Spanish or Japanese version moves as naturally as the original.
Match the Motion Everywhere Else
Animated captions set a visual energy—these tools keep the rest of the frame moving at the same tempo.
Auto Zoom & Pan
Punch-ins that hit on the same beats as your caption emphasis, doubling the impact of key words.
Sound Effects
Pops and ticks synced to word reveals—the audio half of kinetic typography.
Auto Transitions
Scene changes that move with the same energy as your animated text.
AI B-Roll Generation
Visual variety behind the captions so the animation isn't carrying a static frame alone.
Publish & Schedule
Send the finished, animated-caption video to every platform from the same project.
Learn more about what you can do
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