---
title: caption
framework: professional-video-applications
role: article
path: professional-video-applications/caption
---

# caption

## caption

caption Represents a closed-caption or subtitle with one or more text blocks.

Overview

A `caption` element contains one or more [text](/documentation/professional-video-applications/text) elements each of which describes a block of text with custom styles.

> Note >  FCPXML 1.8 and later includes the `caption` element to add closed captions and subtitles to a clip.