How to add captions to a property walkthrough video on iPhone

Why caption a property walkthrough

Walkthrough videos are often watched with the sound off while people scroll listings and social feeds. Captions carry what you say about each room, the layout and the features, so viewers follow the tour without turning the sound on. They also help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

CaptionAddr captions speech, so the walkthrough needs a spoken English narration. It burns the captions into the picture, so the same copy works on a listing page, a social post or in a message.

Caption a walkthrough video on iPhone

1. Film with narration. Talk through the tour as you walk, or record the narration into the video before you caption it. A tour with only music has no speech to caption.
2. Choose the video. If the tour runs past your plan’s length, trim it in Photos first. Then tap Select Video in CaptionAddr and pick the clip with Apple’s Photos picker. Vertical and landscape tours both work.
3. Let the captions generate. Captions start as soon as the video opens; keep the app open until they’re ready; your English speech is transcribed on your iPhone, not on a server.
4. Check rooms and numbers. In Edit Captions, correct room names, measurements, counts and feature names. Numbers and specialist terms are the words a speech model is most likely to get wrong.
5. Style and place the captions. Choose one of the 20 fonts and a size that reads on a phone, turn on the tinted background in front of bright windows, and drag the captions where they don’t cover the room you’re showing.
6. Export and share. Tap Export Video to save the captioned copy to Photos, then share it to your listing, social accounts or messages.

Tips for walkthrough captions

• Keep the microphone close. Empty rooms echo. A clip-on microphone, or holding the phone closer as you speak, gives more accurate captions.
• Move slowly and pause between rooms. Short pauses give each part of the caption time to be read before the next room appears.
• Keep music quiet. Music under your voice can cause missed words; keep it low.
• Review before posting. Read the captions through once so they show only what you meant to say.
• Keep your original. CaptionAddr exports a new copy and leaves the original tour in your library.

Limits

• Speech only. CaptionAddr captions spoken English. A tour with only music shows no captions, and you can’t type captions from scratch.
• English only. CaptionAddr transcribes English speech and doesn’t translate.
• No trim or crop. Trim the tour in Photos before captioning. The export keeps the original shape, so make separate vertical and landscape versions before you caption them.
• Style controls. You choose the font, size, tinted background and position. Captions are always white uppercase text with a dark outline; there are no color controls.
• Length. Free covers videos up to 2 minutes; CaptionAddr Pro covers up to 30 minutes. The App Store shows the current Pro price in your currency.
• Burned-in captions only. There is no SRT, VTT or text export, and the app doesn’t post to listing sites or social platforms.

Frequently asked questions

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