In this video, I’ll show you how to add subtitles on Final Cut Pro (2026 updated). The main idea is simple: Final Cut Pro doesn’t make auto-captions as straightforward as I want, so I export my finished edit, generate captions in CapCut, then bring those captions back into Final Cut and blend them on top of my original video. First, I load the project I want subtitles on and, once I’m done editing, I go to Share > Export File, hit Next, name it, and save. Then I open CapCut, create a project, drag in the exported file, and go to Text > Auto Captions. I choose my language, click Generate, and then I can tweak everything—change the color (I switch it from white to black), edit wording inside the Captions panel, and resize the subtitle box by dragging the border. Once the captions look right, I click the video footage in CapCut and press V (V for voice) to make the video dark so I’m essentially exporting just the captions layer. After exporting from CapCut, I drag that file back into Final Cut Pro, add the Luma Keyer effect (Lumakia) to the captions clip, and it turns the black background transparent—so the subtitles sit cleanly over my original edit.