When this workflow is useful
This approach helps marketing, education, support, and creator teams reuse their own videos across languages without stacking new translations over old text.
Want to test an authorized clip?
Open the new dashboard and choose the relevant cleanup tool.
Recommended workflow
Inventory every text type: dialogue captions, titles, calls to action, product UI, disclaimers, and names. Remove them in logical groups, then rebuild the localized version with safe margins and readable timing.
What makes this case difficult?
Text may carry legal meaning or accessibility information. Localization requires translation review, timing, line-length control, and sometimes a new voice-over—not only visual cleanup.
Source-first alternatives
Request the clean master and source graphics. If dialogue captions are the only issue, keep the video untouched and distribute switchable SRT or VTT tracks instead.
How to judge the preview
Watch the result once at normal speed, once at half speed, and then inspect scene changes frame by frame. Look for flicker, repeated texture, warped straight lines, softened faces, color shifts, and compression around the selection. If the difficult frames fail, reduce the region, split the timeline into scenes, or choose a source-first alternative.
Frequently asked questions
The best localization workflow starts with a clean master. When only a flattened authorized video exists, remove each burned-in text region, review the reconstructed background, and add translated text as editable captions or graphics. Only process videos you own, license, or have permission to edit.
No. Inpainting estimates pixels that are not visible. A clean source or editable project preserves the real background and should be the first choice.
Test a short, difficult section first. Check the result at normal speed and frame by frame before spending credits on a long file.
No. Technical editing does not change copyright, licensing, attribution, privacy, or platform obligations.
- Can Wipe AI help with localize a video with burned-in text?
- Will the result be identical to the original hidden background?
- Should I process the whole video immediately?
- Does editing a visible mark give me rights to the video?
How the workflow works
Start with the original project when it is available. If reconstruction is needed, use the smallest area and shortest time range that contains the visible element.
What affects quality?
Camera movement, compression, scene cuts, detailed textures and subjects crossing the selected area all affect temporal consistency.
AI reconstruction creates a plausible replacement from visible context. It does not recover pixels that were never visible in the source.
Frequently asked questions.
Can Wipe AI help with localize a video with burned-in text?
The best localization workflow starts with a clean master. When only a flattened authorized video exists, remove each burned-in text region, review the reconstructed background, and add translated text as editable captions or graphics. Only process videos you own, license, or have permission to edit.
Will the result be identical to the original hidden background?
No. Inpainting estimates pixels that are not visible. A clean source or editable project preserves the real background and should be the first choice.
Should I process the whole video immediately?
Test a short, difficult section first. Check the result at normal speed and frame by frame before spending credits on a long file.
Does editing a visible mark give me rights to the video?
No. Technical editing does not change copyright, licensing, attribution, privacy, or platform obligations.