# Route: embedded-captions

- **Input:** Existing talking-head footage to caption. It is an actual media file, not a URL or creative brief.
- **Output:** The same footage, untouched, with a caption layer and selected caption identity. The subject may occlude embedded captions. Any length.
- **Triggers:** "add captions", "add subtitles", "captions behind the subject", "cinematic captions for my clip".

## Interview

- **Must-haves:** which clip (the input file).
- **Deferred (announce):** the caption **identity** pick — its Step 0 probes the clip first, then shortlists 2–3 identities from the catalog and recommends one. Say that's coming.
- **Run-shape:** neither — the footage is untouched; there is no storyboard to review.