Burned-in, word-timed captions without a subscription paywall.
A popular editor gated auto-captions behind a paywall after two free exports a month, for a feature that is really just a pipeline.
Clean video export, then local Whisper for word-level timing, Pillow to render styled caption overlays, and ffmpeg to composite them onto the video. No cloud, no monthly fee, full control over the look.
A paywalled feature is often an assembly of open tools once you can see the seams. Owning the pipeline means owning the output.