About CutCaption

Caption decisions that hold up at delivery.

CutCaption is a browser subtitle studio for freelance editors and small agencies that need precise timing, translation, styling, preview, and client-ready export in one workflow.

A real subtitle editor

Edit text and timing against video, style globally or per subtitle, and use preview as part of the actual workflow.

Localization-aware

Generate captions, import existing subtitle files, and create translated subtitle states without leaving the project.

Preview-to-export parity

The same generated ASS instructions drive JASSUB/libass preview and FFmpeg/libass burned-in video export for supported caption treatments.

Product direction

Built for the gap between quick caption apps and full desktop editors.

Fast social caption tools are useful until timing, layout, brand styling, and export parity become part of a client brief. Traditional desktop tools are powerful, but they can make a focused subtitle pass heavier than it needs to be.

CutCaption focuses on that middle ground: practical AI assistance, a real editor, and the same generated ASS instructions flowing through JASSUB/libass preview and FFmpeg/libass export. What an editor approves is what CutCaption is built to deliver.

AI-generated and imported subtitles
LLM translation for saved caption states
Global and per-subtitle styling controls
Karaoke and active-word caption effects
SRT, VTT, ASS, and hardcoded MP4 export paths
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Saad Aaqiq

Founder and software engineer

Built by Saad Aaqiq

Saad Aaqiq is a software engineer and founder with expertise in full-stack product engineering, UX design for complex tools, media workflow architecture, and browser-based video and subtitle systems.

He focuses on making complex media workflows feel simple, precise, and reliable in the browser, so editors can move from rough captions to client-ready subtitles without stitching together separate tools or rebuilding styles after preview.

CutCaption is operated by Otso Labs LLC.

Launch contributors

Focused support around the first launch.

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Inas Aaqiq

Business Strategy & Operations Contributor

Launch research support

Student at Grenoble Ecole de Management — Grande École Programme

Supported the early business setup for Otso Labs and CutCaption by researching France and United States company-formation options, comparing administrative, banking, and tax-compliance considerations, and contributing to early business planning, market positioning, and operational research for the product launch.