How to translate a video
Turn the speech in a video into subtitles in another language, keep every timing intact, and check the translated words before you export.
What travels and what stays
Clipy extracts the audio from your video on your device, converts it to a WAV file, and sends only that audio for transcription. Your video never leaves your machine. When you later press Translate, only the subtitle text is sent to Gemini.
So three things move at three different points: the audio goes out for transcription, the transcript goes out for translation, and the video itself stays put the whole time.
From video to translated subtitles
- Open the translation tool and add your video, up to 250 MB and 10 minutes long.
- Let Clipy extract the soundtrack locally and send it for transcription.
- Read the transcript in the editor and correct names and terms before translating.
- Choose the target language: Hindi, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian or German.
- Translate the subtitles, then review each line against the video.
- Export SRT or VTT, or burn the translated captions into an MP4.
Review, export and troubleshooting
Translation replaces the words and keeps every start and end time, so nothing needs retiming. Read the result against the original audio: watch for idioms taken literally, oddly spelled names, and sentences that merged or split, and fix them by hand.
If the transcript came back in the wrong language, correct it and translate again. The on-screen preview is approximate, so play the exported file before posting.
Common questions
Does my video get uploaded?
No. The video stays on your device. Clipy extracts the audio locally and sends that audio for transcription, then sends only the subtitle text for translation.
Do I have to retime subtitles after translation?
No. Translation keeps each subtitle's start and end time and replaces only the words, so the timing you reviewed is the timing you export.
Try the workflow
Prepare your own file and review the result before using it.
Open the related Clipy tool