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October 13, 2022
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Create Captions from Transcript Ignores Minimum Duration

I have a longer video with a transcript that auto generated just fine.  When I go to create captions from this transcript, no matter what duration I set for the (attached and highlighted) Minimum Duration parameter, it seems to ignore it and will create caption pieces that are <1 second long, which is almost useless.  Am I misundertanding what this parameter does or how to create captions that better handle this?

Stan Jones
Stan JonesCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 13, 2022

In my tests, it does not do what is described. I mean, if you set a minimum duration of 6 seconds, and then 1.2 seconds, and the captions are almost exactly the same, that makes no sense.

 

The test I just did is in a recent Beta version: 23.1.0 Build 33.

 

Stan

 

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 13, 2022

In my tests, it does not do what is described. I mean, if you set a minimum duration of 6 seconds, and then 1.2 seconds, and the captions are almost exactly the same, that makes no sense.

 

The test I just did is in a recent Beta version: 23.1.0 Build 33.

 

Stan

 

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waheulerAuthor
Inspiring
October 14, 2022

That my experience as well. Regardless of what I set the minimum to, I’ll get some short captions that are a second or long.

Wesley Heuler

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Inspiring
March 30, 2025

This is clearly a bug, but i'll add a usability piece to the discussion: 1.2 seconds long is often too long for the style of captioning i want to effect. i am trying to depict one-word-at-a-time captions, and as a rule, words take fractions of seconds for the speaker to say. You can easily fit 5-6 words in 1.2 seconds. If this feature is revisted, that should be taken into account.

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