Closed Captioning Text

[jimlolo]

I want to put text at the bottom of a video, like closed captioning. Do I need a new text layer for each sentence?

Thanks.

[Rick Gerard]

Captioning is a lot easier to do in Premiere Pro. It will transcribe, create subtitles, and give you a captioning file you can upload to YouTube or Vimeo to generate accurate subtitles. 

If you want to do it in After Effects, you can use Audition to generate text and add markers that you can use in After Effects. All you need is a couple of expressions to generate the text and animate a move or an opacity fade based on the markers. The problem is that you get no captions text file to add to your video, and you have to burn in the subtitle track.