How to Add Portuguese Subtitles in DaVinci Resolve
Portuguese splits into two big worlds, Brazil and Portugal, and the accents drift far enough apart that most caption tools stumble on one or the other. Caption Pro leans on Whisper AI, which was trained on a lot of both, so it transcribes your timeline and lets you fix anything before a single caption lands.
Very high on Brazilian Portuguese, strong on European.
100% local. Nothing is uploaded.
Standard .srt, plus styled captions on your timeline
Works on the free version, Mac & Windows
Brazilian Portuguese is one of the best represented accents in Whisper training data, so accuracy there is very high. European Portuguese, with its more closed vowels and dropped syllables, is a little harder, which is exactly why the review step matters: uncertain words are highlighted so you can correct them by ear before the captions reach your timeline.
Portuguese uses nasal vowels written with the tilde (ã, õ), the cedilla (ç), and acute and circumflex accents (á, é, ê, ó). Every one of these renders with standard Unicode fonts, so the Text+ templates already in your DaVinci Resolve project will show them correctly. Montserrat, Inter, and Poppins all cover the full set if you want a specific look.
This fits Brazilian YouTube and Reels, Portuguese content for audiences in Portugal, online courses, and client delivery. You can also caption in another language and translate into Portuguese, or start from Portuguese and push the captions out to any of 100+ languages.
Where Portuguese captions help
Generate Portuguese Subtitles with Caption Pro
Word-by-word Auto Captions & Local Translation
Transcribe, translate, and style Portuguese 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