日本語
Japanese captions for your short clips
Japanese viewers are used to heavy on-screen text, known as telop, on TV and YouTube, so captions are expected, not optional. Japanese mixes three scripts and uses no spaces, and good captions break lines at natural phrase boundaries.
What Japanese captions look like
Example caption lines in Kanji, hiragana and katakana script, as they would sit on a clip.
ちょっと待って、ここからが本番。
最初は誰も教えてくれないこと。
最後まで見てね。
What good Japanese captions get right
- ✓Lines are broken between phrases (bunsetsu), never in the middle of a word.
- ✓Kanji, hiragana and katakana are kept as the speaker's words call for, and loanwords use katakana.
- ✓Big, bold telop-style captions with keyword highlights suit Japanese viewers' expectations.
How it works in Reeltopus
- 1. Drop in a long video. A podcast, stream, webinar or YouTube video, in Japanese or any other language.
- 2. Pick from ranked clips. Each clip comes captioned in Japanese, framed on the speaker, with a note on why it was picked. Fix a word once and every clip updates.
- 3. Post everywhere. Schedule to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Threads and Facebook, or translate the captions for another audience.
Plans are billed by upload hours, with unlimited clips, exports and re-runs. The free plan includes 2 upload hours a month, and failed jobs refund their hours automatically.
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