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Vimeo Recaption re-uploads a silent, pre-2022 Vimeo backlog so Vimeo's own pipeline auto-generates captions on the copies — in bulk, idempotently, and resumably.
Problem
Vimeo only auto-captions videos uploaded after a certain date, so years of older footage stays uncaptioned — inaccessible, unsearchable, and un-indexable. Re-uploading hundreds of videos by hand to trigger captioning is a soul-crushing afternoon nobody signs up for.
Solution
Vimeo Recaption walks your library, copies each eligible video back into Vimeo so the caption pipeline fires, and tracks exactly what it has done. It's idempotent — run it twice and it won't duplicate work — and resumable, so a dropped connection doesn't mean starting over.
How it works
Point it at your account; it enumerates the backlog, re-uploads the copies that qualify, and records state so every run picks up cleanly where the last one stopped.
Why now
Captions are table stakes for accessibility and for search — and the cheapest way to get them here is to let Vimeo do the work on fresh copies. Automating that turns a manual slog into a single command.