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Translate video to French
Add French subtitles to any video: upload it, pick French, and export an MP4 with French captions timed to the speech — or download an French SRT file. Free, with no sign-up and no watermark.
How to add French subtitles to a video
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Upload your video
Drop in an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, or an audio file. The video stays on your device — only the audio is used to hear the speech.
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Choose French
French is preselected when you open the translator from this page. The spoken language is detected automatically.
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Style the captions
Pick a template, font and position. Everything is previewed live on your video.
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Export
Download an MP4 with the French captions burned in, or French SRT and VTT files to upload to YouTube or any platform.
About French subtitles
- Writing system
- Latin alphabet with accents (é, è, ç, à)
- Spoken by
- around 310 million people
- Where
- France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and much of West and Central Africa
Tips for great French captions
- French typography puts a space before ? ! : and ; — the translated captions keep that spacing.
- French runs noticeably longer than English, so a slightly smaller font size or two-line captions help on vertical video.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate a video to French for free?+
Open the video translator, upload your video, choose French, and press generate. You get French captions timed to the speech, which you can edit and export as an MP4 or an SRT — no account and no watermark.
Can I translate an English video to French?+
Yes — and a video in almost any other language too. The spoken language is detected automatically, then the captions are written in French.
Does it dub the video into French?+
No. It adds French subtitles and keeps the original voice, which is faster, free, and keeps the speaker's real tone.
I already have subtitles — can I translate them to French?+
Yes. Use the SRT translator: drop in your .srt or .vtt file, choose French, and download the translated file with every timestamp unchanged.
Your French captions are one upload away
No sign-up. No watermark. Your video stays on your device. Just better captions, in minutes.
Translate a video to French