How to Upload an Existing SRT and Burn Captions in VEED

Sometimes you already have a corrected SRT, maybe from a transcription service or a previous edit. Rather than re-transcribe, you can import it into VEED and burn the captions directly onto the video. This guide covers the import flow.

• Your video file
• A matching .srt or .vtt subtitle file
• A VEED account

Step 1: Upload the video

Create a new project and add your video to the timeline. Make sure it is the same cut the SRT was timed against, because mismatched timing will throw every caption out of sync.

Step 2: Choose Upload Subtitle File

Open the Subtitles panel and pick Upload Subtitle File instead of Auto Subtitles. Select your .srt from disk. VEED parses the cues and drops them onto the timeline at their timestamps.

Step 3: Verify sync on the timeline

Scrub to a few points in the video and confirm the words match the audio. If everything is offset by the same amount, you can select all cues and shift them together rather than fixing each one.

Step 4: Style the imported captions

Imported captions arrive with default styling. Use the Styles tab to set font, color, and position exactly as you would for auto-generated ones.

Step 5: Export with captions burned in

Click Export and choose MP4. Because the captions are on the canvas, they render permanently into the file, which is exactly what you want for social platforms that strip separate subtitle tracks.

Result: a hand-corrected SRT from a transcription vendor is now burned cleanly onto the video without retyping a single line.