DaVinci Resolve

Subtitles for DaVinci Resolve, made on your Mac.

Transcribe locally, export SubRip, import it onto the Edit page timeline. Only a text file moves between the two applications.

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The workflow

One text file between two applications.

Resolve imports SubRip directly and puts it on its own timeline track.

Transcribe in suubbs, correct the handful of words the model got wrong, export SubRip, and import it into Resolve. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is re-encoded.

01

Generate and correct

Drop the video into suubbs and press Generate. Fix the names and the jargon, then export SubRip (.srt).

02

File ▸ Import ▸ Subtitle

From the Edit page, import the .srt. It arrives as a subtitle track, laid out on the timeline by its own timestamps.

03

Style in the Inspector

Select the track and set font, size, colour, position and background. Resolve owns the look from here — the file only carried the words and the timings.

The honest limitation

SRT will not carry your styling.

This surprises people every time, so it is worth being direct about it.

SubRip is text and timings. Whatever you styled in suubbs — colour, typeface, position, the word-level highlight — is discarded the moment you export SRT, because the format has nowhere to record it. That is not a Resolve problem or a suubbs problem; it is the format.

You have two routes if appearance matters:

Details

Questions about the handoff.

Including where each application's job ends.

Where is the subtitle import in Resolve?

File ▸ Import ▸ Subtitle. The imported file arrives as a subtitle track on the Edit page timeline.

Does Resolve have its own transcription?

The Studio version has audio transcription built in. The free version's support is more limited, which is one reason people generate the file elsewhere and import it.

Can I style the subtitles once they are in?

Yes, in the Inspector — font, size, colour, position and background all apply to the subtitle track. That styling is Resolve's, not the file's; SRT carries none of it.

How do I get word-by-word highlighting?

Not through SRT — the format cannot express it. Export SubStation Alpha (.ass) from suubbs and burn it in with ffmpeg after you render, or rebuild the effect with Resolve's own text tools.

Does my footage get uploaded?

No. suubbs transcribes on your machine, so only the subtitle file moves between the two applications.

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[File ▸ Import ▸ Subtitle]