Workflow
Turn one video into several formats and languages
Take a finished video and produce vertical and square versions, captions and translated or dubbed versions.
Last checked Oct 15, 2026. Tool facts come from each tool's page and change often; prices there are as of Oct 2026, verify before buying.
- Good for
- Anyone with a finished video who wants it to reach more places or more viewers.
- You'll need
- A finished video, the platforms you want to post on, and an account with one or two of the tools below. Many have a free plan; a few are trial or paid only, and each tool line says which.
- Rough time
- About 45 to 90 minutes for two extra formats and one extra language (a rough estimate).
What you'll end up with
The same video in the shapes your platforms need: a vertical cut, a square cut, captions on each, and one or more versions in another language.
Treat the finished master as the source. Everything else is a variation you can redo if the original changes.
Step 1: Finish one master video
Make the changes once, in one place. Every later version comes from this one, so fix pacing, audio and wording first.
Step 2: Make vertical and square versions
Reframe the video for each platform and keep the speaker or the action inside the frame. Check that on-screen text is not cut off at the edges.
- Kapwing Free planBrowser video editor with subtitles, clip maker, resizing, dubbing and AI tools, priced per workspace member.
- OpusClip Free planTurns long videos into short, captioned, vertical clips and can publish them to social platforms.
- CapCut Free planTemplate-driven video editor with AI features, free to start, with a Pro plan for premium templates and AI credits.
Step 3: Add captions
Captions help viewers who watch without sound. Read them once for names and numbers before you export each version.
- Descript Free planEdit video and audio by editing a text transcript, with AI tools for filler words, captions, clips and more.
- Kapwing Free planBrowser video editor with subtitles, clip maker, resizing, dubbing and AI tools, priced per workspace member.
- Zubtitle Free planSimple tool for adding captions, headlines and branding to social videos, with AI help for titles, hashtags and timestamps.
Step 4: Translate and dub
These tools translate the speech, then add captions or a dubbed voice in another language. Start with one language and one short video, and judge the result before you do more.
- Rask AI Free trialAI video localization: translate and dub video into 135+ languages with voice cloning and optional lip-sync.
- ElevenLabs Free planAI voice generator with 5,000+ voices in 90+ languages, plus voice cloning, dubbing and music tools.
- Kapwing Free planBrowser video editor with subtitles, clip maker, resizing, dubbing and AI tools, priced per workspace member.
- Descript Free planEdit video and audio by editing a text transcript, with AI tools for filler words, captions, clips and more.
Step 5: Ask a fluent speaker to listen, then publish
No tool is needed for this step: ask someone who speaks the language to listen once and flag anything that sounds off. If you want one place to collect comments, review tools can hold the versions and the feedback.
Good to know
- Dubbing and voice-cloning plans often meter by minutes, so a long video can use a lot of an allowance. The tool page shows how each plan counts.
- Check each tool page for the languages it lists before you plan around a particular one.
- If you clone a voice, use only a voice you have permission to use, and get the speaker's agreement for the dubbed versions.
- Names, jargon and numbers are the usual places to check in a translation.
Each tool page shows its dated pricing, what the free plan includes and a link to the vendor's own page.
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