A practical walkthrough for captioning Hindi and Hinglish video — what accuracy to actually expect, whether to use Devanagari or romanized text, and the font problem that breaks Indic captions in the exported file.
Sidecar subtitle files are the cleaner engineering answer and the wrong choice for social video. A straight comparison of open captions and .srt, when each one wins, and what burning in actually costs you.
Caption errors are not randomly distributed — they cluster hard on names, brands, numbers and jargon. Understanding why makes a review pass several times faster, because you stop reading evenly and start checking categories.