What Emberu does
Emberu subtitles a DaVinci Resolve cut and places the polish around it: captions, zooms and transitions. You check the wording and the result, then Emberu writes both back to the timeline.
The app opens on the Main page: the timeline and the Ignite options beside it. The rail holds the Ignite pipeline and Export.
- Generate
- Captions on the timeline, with a time per word.
- Emberu's subtitle editor
- Review
- Correct the wording and the timing in the same editor.
- The same editor
- Ignite
- Places the captions and the polish you chose in one run.
- DaVinci Resolve
- Export
- Rendered clips in a folder.
- A folder
Before you start
- Windows 10+ or macOS 12+. Download Emberu from the site header or the home page, then sign in.
- DaVinci Resolve installed, with a project open and the timeline you want to caption. Resolve Studio is not required.
- Emberu projects and their local render need Pro or Max.
- Your plan decides which pipelines, polish, Animations and export paths you get.
Animations download with your plan. Emberu installs the Animations your plan includes.
Your first pass
Open the cut and mark the range
Load the project and timeline you want to caption. For part of it, set In and Out on the timeline you are captioning, or press I and O on Emberu's own timeline; Alt+X clears both.
Choose a pipeline
The Pipeline control in the Ignite page's Audio card offers Extraction, Translation and Scripts. Start with Extraction.
Press Start
Start, at the bottom of the Ignite page sidebar, runs the pass and shows progress.
Review and adjust
The pass ends with the captions on the timeline. Play the cut and check where captions and polish land; fix wording and timing in the subtitle editor on the Main page.
Adjust the look and the polish
Pick an Animation and turn on the polish you want: zooms, B-roll, transitions, music, sounds, Flares and looks.
Deliver
Batch-render the clips in Resolve with your render preset. Social posting is not available yet.
- Ignite: reaching the page and leaving it
What Done keeps, and what Back removes.
Resolve timelines and Emberu projects
A Resolve timeline
Pick this for finishing: Emberu captions the active timeline, places the polish back into Resolve, and renders the clips.
An Emberu project
Pick this for a self-contained edit: import footage, build timelines, caption and review frames without Resolve. Closing the project returns you to Resolve.
The controls you will use most
These are the controls you will reach for most. Every key can be rebound in Settings > Keybinds.
- Space
- Starts or stops playback.
- Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z
- Undoes or redoes the last edit.
- Ctrl+Shift+S
- Runs Start from any page.
- Ctrl+T / Ctrl+Shift+T
- Moves the Resolve playhead to Emberu's, or the reverse.
- Alt + scroll
- Zooms the timeline under the pointer.
- Shift+2
- Opens the Edit page.
- Shift+1
- Opens the Projects screen.
- S
- Opens Switch Animation.
- Export
- Opens batch renders.
Where to go next
- Captions
The pipelines, the subtitle editor and highlights.
- Furnace
Rough-cut a long source and let Cast choose clips.
- Animations & Sparks
Typography, Animations and the Sparks around the words.
- Shuffle
Length, Animations and Formations that give captions rhythm.
- Ignite
Everything Emberu places around the captions.
- Export
Batch renders to a folder.
- AI agents
What an assistant can do through Emberu's tools.