Mac
macOS 12 or later
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Addis Creatives · version 0.2.1Amharic captions,
Amharic captions,
right where you edit.
Addis Creatives turns Amharic speech into timed captions with Addis Scribe. Style them and export a captioned video, export SRT or VTT for CapCut, or create captions directly inside Premiere Pro and After Effects.
- Works with
- CapCut, Premiere, After Effects
- Exports
- Video, SRT, VTT, ASS
- Runs on
- Mac and Windows
Downloads
Version 0.2.1
Start with the app for your computer. The panels for Premiere Pro and After Effects need the app running, because the app does the transcription.
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Installs for your user account; no administrator needed.
Panels for Adobe apps
Premiere Pro panelPremiere Pro 2022 or later · included in the app
After Effects panelAfter Effects 2022 or later · included in the app
No separate download: open Addis Creatives, go to Settings and click Install panels. Keep the app open while you caption; the panels use it to make the captions.
Verify your download (SHA-256)
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These builds are not yet signed. On a Mac, the first time you open it, Control-click the app and choose Open, or allow it under System Settings › Privacy & Security. On Windows, if SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway. Checksums are also in SHA256SUMS.txt.
Set up
Add your API key, then caption
Open Addis Creatives and paste an Addis AI API key in Settings. It is kept in your computer's keychain, and transcription is billed to your Addis AI wallet.
- Drop your video on Addis Creatives and check the captions against the audio.
- Choose Export SRT.
- In CapCut, open Captions, then Add captions, then Import file, and pick the SRT.
- In Addis Creatives, open Settings, click Install panels, then restart Premiere Pro.
- Open Window, then Extensions, then Addis Creatives (Premiere Pro 25.6 and later: Window, then Plugins).
- 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.
- In Addis Creatives, open Settings, click Install panels, then restart After Effects.
- In After Effects, open Window, then Extensions, then Addis Creatives.
- 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. Choose Short for social video (one short line at a time), Standard (up to two lines of 42 characters), or Long, or set your own lengths 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.
- Style captions in the app (font, size, position, stroke, box and word highlighting) and export the video with them burned in, exactly as the preview shows. SRT and VTT carry text and timing only, so style them in your editor; ASS keeps the style.
- 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. Add language=om for Afaan Oromo, language=ti for Tigrinya, language=ha for Hausa, language=sid for Sidama, language=wal for Wolaytta or language=sw for Swahili.