How to Add French Subtitles in DaVinci Resolve
French runs words together through liaison and elision, which is where a lot of automatic captioning goes wrong. Caption Pro uses Whisper AI, trained on a large amount of French, to transcribe your timeline, and it hands you the transcript to review before anything is placed so those liaisons are yours to correct.
High accuracy, including liaison and elided forms.
100% local. Nothing is uploaded.
Standard .srt, plus styled captions on your timeline
Works on the free version, Mac & Windows
Whisper handles French with high accuracy, including elided forms like qu'il and j'ai and the run-together sound of spoken liaison. Homophones such as a and à, or ou and où, are the usual place a transcript needs a human eye, and the review step highlights uncertain words so you can fix them fast, changing only the line you touch.
French relies on several accents, the acute (é), grave (è, à, ù), circumflex (ê, ô), the cedilla (ç), and the diaeresis (ï, ë). These all render with standard Unicode fonts, so your existing Text+ templates in DaVinci Resolve display them without setup. Montserrat, Inter, and Poppins cover the complete French character set.
This suits French YouTube, short-form for France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Québec, course content, and client work delivered in French. You can also transcribe in another language and translate into French, or start from French and translate the captions outward into 100+ languages.
Where French captions help
Generate French Subtitles with Caption Pro
Word-by-word Auto Captions & Local Translation
Transcribe, translate, and style French captions on your DaVinci Resolve timeline using local Whisper AI.
- Runs 100% locally with Whisper AI (no API fees)
- Word-by-word karaoke & pop-in animation styles
- Instant SRT import/export & timeline placement