Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions
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What is Captions and how does it simplify video creation?
Welcome back to the Mad Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Turk from First Mark. Today we're diving into the fast-moving world of AI video with Gorov Mishra, the CEO of Captions. Now, if you've ever struggled with creating videos, endless retakes, clunky editing software, figuring out keyframes, captions uses AI to eliminate all of that. It's a production studio in your pocket using AI to make video creation as simple as pressing a button. Rev and I talk about how our captions went from a viral-weakened project to a company now powering over 10
Million creators. The next day I woke up and I just saw like all the numbers just blowing up completely and we're like number, you know, top 20 or 30 on the app store. But our framework was actually to look at society and to think about what are the inevitable changes that are happening in society. We knew that that means that creating video is gonna be a huge industry in the future. Why AI-generated video is past the uncanny event. As soon as it got good enough, I think it very quickly crossed the boundary of like, wow, it's very good. And we're actually past the uncanny valley. It became completely usable. What we actually ended up realizing is that people actually don't care. And what happens when you put Hollywood level production tools in the hands of every creator?
I think for video editors. There's a small chance that it actually becomes the most important profession of them all. Because they don't need anything, they just generate all the footage, put it all together, and they're done.
It's a fascinating conversation with one of the sharpest minds in the space. Let's get into it. Hey Gorav, welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for having me. I like to start those conversations from the very top. What is
captions? Yeah. I mean, so in short, captions is a production student in your pocket. So it's an app, a product that basically m lets anybody make video as simple as possible. Right. So think about all the process that you have to go through to create a video, right, as an individual creator. So you have to like record the video. And obviously you're gonna get something wrong. So you do retakes and like get that word right and mispronounce something. Sometimes you notice something after the fact. It's like, oh my God, that's so weird, right? You wanna redo it. So just the recording is hard enough. There's the editing afterwards where Now you have to go figure out what's a keyframe. And you know, in order to get a good output, you need to know what a keyframe is, right?
There's a huge learning curve to these things and we help people skip past this. So an easy way to a framework to think about how and when to use captions is if you want to do video recording and video editing, you should use something else. If you don't want to do it, you should use captions.
It's a pretty uh magical experience, right? So you you you have your video, you import it, you pick a style, right? And then you basically have a like a magic button and on the other side of it comes out a video which is edited. Well, you you cannot automatically cut the hesitation and sound and pauses, that's that kind of stuff, right? Exactly.
Yep. So not just the recording part, you can say pass so we can generate a video of you, yourself, or anybody you have the the license for. So if you have a license for somebody else's likeness or, you know, we also have actors sort of available in the app that you can pick from.
Mm-hmm.
We can generate a video of that person saying, you know, whatever your pitch is. Maybe you're pitching a product, maybe it's like an ad, maybe it's a social media post, right? We can generate that and you can get it perfect. You know, you can say exactly what you want to say, test different messages, whatever it might be. And then we can edit it also, right? So that it, you know, because just footage is footage. Footage isn't exactly usable most of the time. And when you say actors with those uh avatars, exactly. I mean so these are basically real people who have licensed their likeness to be used.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Captions and how does it simplify video creation?
0:00–7:51
2
How did Gaurav Misra and his co‑founder turn a weekend prototype into a viral app?
7:51–15:57
3
What strategic framework did they use to identify the AI video market?
15:57–25:36
4
How does Captions differentiate itself from Adobe Premiere and CapCut?
25:36–33:46
5
Which AI models power Captions’ video generation and editing pipelines?
33:46–43:29
6
How does Captions handle latency, low‑cost inference, and local vs cloud AI?
43:29–53:24
7
What are the biggest technical challenges in AI‑driven video editing (lipsync, audio conditioning, rendering)?
53:24–1:03:04
8
What does the future hold for AI video creation, deepfakes, and professional editors?
1:03:04–1:13:14
Speakers
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