Remove Subtitles from Video Before Dubbing

Why this matters

Voice actors can't dub over legible foreign text without visual confusion, and the hardsubs would still show in the final export.

The standard order is: erase burned-in text → dub → add localized soft subtitles. Erasing is the one step that touches pixels, so it happens once on the master.

How it works

Submit the episode with region detection on. The API returns a subtitle-free master plus a mask preview you can eyeball before dubbing starts.

Submit a job with an input URL (S3, GCS or HTTPS), poll the job URL, and download the rendered output. No GPU, no queues, no ffmpeg builds to babysit.

Code

import requests, time

API = "https://api.mlslabs.io/v1/subtitle-eraser/jobs"
headers = {"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
payload = {"input": "s3://bucket/episode.mp4", "regions": "auto"}

resp = requests.post(API, json=payload, headers=headers)
job = resp.json()
while job["status"] not in ("succeeded", "failed"):
    time.sleep(3)
    job = requests.get(job["url"], headers=headers).json()

print("Output:", job["output_url"])

Pro tips

• Erase on the highest-quality master you have; dubs inherit it.
• Keep the mask preview in your QC ticket so editors can verify.
• Coordinate erase → dub → sub as three API calls in one pipeline.

Try the erase flow in Postman.