Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com
Every video your team publishes needs captions. Accessibility requirements, social media autoplay, SEO value. But nobody wants to sit there adding subtitles by hand, and outsourcing transcription adds days of turnaround.
You can automate the entire thing. This n8n workflow watches a folder (Google Drive, Dropbox, or an S3 bucket), transcribes new videos with FFmpeg Micro's Whisper-based API, burns the captions directly into the video, and drops the result wherever you need it. Your team uploads a video. A few minutes later, the captioned version appears. No manual steps.
What you're building
The workflow has four stages:
