Captioned Vertical Clips from a YouTube Channel

What This Workflow Does

What it automates: This clipping agent monitors YouTube, extracts clips, converts to vertical, generates and styles captions, and publishes.

Who it's for: Creators and media teams who prioritize accessibility and silent-viewing performance across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

When to use it: Whenever caption quality and vertical formatting are the primary publishing requirements.

How It Works

Step 1: New YouTube Video — Automatic Trigger

Connect your channel. Overlap starts the workflow as soon as a new qualifying video is published.

Step 2: Find Clips — Best Moments Extracted

AI identifies your highest-performing clip candidates. Set length and add custom prompts to focus on specific content types.

Step 3: Convert to Vertical — 9:16 Reframing

Content-aware reframing keeps subjects in frame in the vertical format, with support for single and multi-speaker layouts.

Step 4: Add Subtitles — Full Caption Control

Captions are generated from the video's transcript and fully customizable:

• Position (Y axis)
• Font size and style
• Max characters per line
• Max lines visible at once
• Per-speaker styling for interview content
• Subtitle style preset

Step 5: Post to Social — Direct Publishing

Captioned vertical clips are published to your connected accounts.

Who Is This For?

Accessibility-focused creators: Burned-in captions ensure your content is watchable for viewers with hearing impairments, on mute, or in noisy environments.

Short-form social publishers: Research consistently shows captioned clips outperform uncaptioned clips in watch time and shares on TikTok and Reels.

FAQs

Can I style captions differently for different speakers?

Yes. The Add Subtitles node supports per-speaker styling, so you can assign different caption styles to each speaker in interview or co-hosted content.

Are captions burned into the video or added as a subtitle track?

Captions are burned directly into the video file, so they display on every platform regardless of whether the viewer has subtitles enabled.