Snap Captions Installation Help Guide

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01 - Download Snap Captions

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02 - Install Snap Captions

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There are two ways of installing the plugin

Easier - You can install it automatically by dragging the snap captions.lua file into the Davinci Resolve console (as shown in the latest workflow video).
Harder - You can manually Install Snap Captions

Automatic Installations

dragging the snap captions.lua file into the Davinci Resolve console (as shown in the latest workflow video).

⛔️ What if dragging the lua file into the console doesn’t work?

👇 This help article here goes over common reasons LUA files won’t install

Go To LUA Installation Help

If that doesn’t work you can manually install Snap Captions into Davinci Resolve as detailed below.

Manual Installation

Drag the Lua File into the resolve directory

Copy the Snap Captions.lua file

Paste it into the below directory

For Windows

Copy the below pathname

%APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Scripts\Comp

Then paste this into the windows search bar

Drag the Lua file in there

For Mac

in the description here copy the below pathname

/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Scripts/Comp

Then right click on finder and click “go to folder” paste in the path

Disclaimer, if your finder can’t find this folder location, check the below instruction on missing Comp folder.

Drag and drop the Lua file there

Drag the UTF8 into the Resolve directory

Copy the utf8_snapcaptions.lua

Paste it into the below directory

For Windows

%APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Modules\Lua

For Mac

/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Modules/Lua

03 - Double check the plugin is installed correctly

Open up Davinci Resolve
Go to:

Workspace > Scripts > Comp > Snap Captions

The plugin should load up

Install the fonts from the Template Project

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Font list

You will find the fonts already downloaded with your Template Project folder.

Or, download them here:

Clean Pack V02.01 - FONTS.rar2914.2KB

Next, you will need to install them.

How To Install Fonts

For Windows

Open Clean Pack V02.01 - FONTS
Highlight all of the fonts
Right click and hit install

For Mac

Open Clean Pack V02.01 - FONTS
Open your Font Book (Finder > Applications > Font Book)
Highlight all of the fonts and drag and drop them into the Font Book

You might need to restart DaVinci Resolve for the fonts to be visible in the program.

Optional - Practice With Template Project

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The template project file is not necessary to use this plugin - this project was made to help you check out how the plugin works.

It’s important to have a folder called “Snap Captions” (case sensitive) in your Davinci Resolve project file with your template text+ elements in it for Snap Captions to work.

We’ve already created the bin in the template project with the caption templates from our Snap Captions Clean Pack.

So you can go straight to the Practice Timeline, generate subtitles and then use Snap Captions.

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Dan Knowlton is a software engineer who specializes in building tools to help creative professionals and studios do more with less. He’s on a mission to eliminate tedious button presses. Dan has experience developing API plugins for most creative software from Maya to the Adobe suite to DaVinci Resolve.

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