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Connected clips: captions that never drift

Keep overlays, subtitles, and audio locked to their shot as you edit.

By The Riocut Team

Connected clips: captions that never drift

Nothing ruins a short faster than captions that lag the audio. It usually happens for a boring reason: you trimmed a shot, and the caption track didn't follow. Riocut's connected clips make that impossible.

Captions belong to the shot

In Riocut, a caption isn't a separate track you have to babysit — it's attached to the clip it describes. Move the clip, split it, or ripple a trim, and the words move with it. The sync you set once is the sync you keep.

Word-level timing

Because transcripts carry word-level timestamps, captions can highlight one word at a time in perfect step with the speaker. That karaoke effect is what keeps retention high on muted feeds — and it stays accurate no matter how you cut.

Style without the busywork

Pick a caption template or design your own once, and it applies across every clip in the project. Overlays and voiceover follow the same rule: connected to their shot, so a fast edit never turns into a sync-fixing session.

Edit freely. The captions keep up.

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