Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
KathaCut: a local-first caption editor for multilingual video
KathaCut is a free desktop editor for transcribing speech, styling animated captions, and editing video on a timeline, with a workflow for sending captions to DaVinci Resolve.
- For
- Video creators working with multilingual or Malayalam captions
- Worth noticing
- The page says imported SRT text and timings remain unchanged unless the editor chooses to edit them.
Field notes
The page describes a workflow that keeps video, transcript, and edits on the computer in local mode, with speech-model download as the one-time online step before offline transcription. Caption editing includes text and timing changes, several animation styles, and SRT or project-file export. The Resolve bridge is presented as a test-stage integration: the page reports a confirmed Windows connection while explicitly noting that full timeline import and caption sync remain unverified.
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