useless-captions

in my humble opinion, these style of captions are used for attracting the viewer's attention rather than helping them, hence the name useless-captions.

setup

clone the entire github project and make sure to have bun and ffmpeg installed on your system

you're gonna have to run the server in your terminal before you open the software

# clone and cd into the project
# replace 1.x.0 with the version you've downloaded from https://github.com/FlowGnarly/useless-captions/releases
git clone --branch app-v1.x.0 https://github.com/flowgnarly/useless-captions
cd useless-captions

# cd into the server, install server dependencies
cd server
bun i

# run the server
bun index.ts

now that the server is running, you can download the software if you haven't already and open it up.

troubleshooting

if the server failed to extract the whisper.cpp zip file (found in ./server/) after downloading it, extract its content manually into ./server/whisper.cpp/ and run the server again

if the server failed to download chrome-headless-shell, copy the download link from the logs and download it manually with a browser, once it finished downloading you can extract it into ./server/node_modules/.remotion/chrome-headless-shell/[your-platform]/chrome-headless-shell-[your-platform]/

(replace [your-platform] with one of mac-arm64, mac-x64, linux64, linux-arm64 or win64.)

screenshots