How to add Hindi subtitles to Reels from a long video

Before you start: decide who's reading

Hindi subtitles make sense when most of your viewers read Hindi comfortably. That's true whether you recorded in Hindi, in Hinglish, or in English:

• Recorded in Hindi: Hindi captions match what viewers hear.
• Recorded in Hinglish: Hindi captions keep the whole clip in one script, so viewers aren't switching between two while they read. English captions are the other option if your audience reads English more easily.
• Recorded in English: Hindi captions, translated from the English speech, open the clip up to viewers who'd rather read Hindi.

Pick one. Veda captions each video in a single language, so decide this up front.

Step by step

1. Upload the video. In Veda, upload a podcast, interview, class or talk. On the Free plan, videos can be up to 20 minutes.
2. Choose Hindi as the caption language. Every caption will be written in Hindi, translated where the speech is in English.
3. Pick a clip length. About 30, 40, 60 or 90 seconds, or Auto. Shorter clips suit a single strong line; longer ones suit a story or an explanation.
4. Let Veda cut and caption. It picks moments, ends each one at the end of a sentence or a natural pause where one is close by, fits it to a vertical frame, and burns in captions in lines of up to six words.
5. Start with the highest score. Every clip gets a score from 0 to 100. Watch the top few, trim any that start a beat late, and download them as MP4s.
6. Post as a Reel. Upload the MP4 to Instagram as a Reel. The captions are already burned in, so there's nothing to add in the Instagram editor.

Tips that make Hindi-captioned Reels work

• Watch every clip once before posting, especially for names, brand names and technical terms.
• Keep your own on-screen text light. Veda positions captions to avoid text already on screen, but a busy frame is still harder to read on a phone.
• Use 4:5 for the feed. If you also want to post a clip to your Instagram feed rather than Reels, 4:5 takes up more of the screen than 1:1.
• Write the post caption in Hindi too, if your subtitles are in Hindi, so the whole post speaks to the same audience.

Other languages

The same steps work for Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and six more Indian languages. For more on Hindi specifically, see Hindi subtitles with Veda.