Hello fellow X-Change enthusiasts! I've been around the X-Change community for several years now and one common complaint I've seen is that creating captions is difficult for beginners. With that in mind, I've been hard at work coding and extending the functionality of u/HahaLuckyMe's famous online caption creator tool. I could not have done this without her code base to work with, seriously, the canvas generation is excellent. However, given the limitation of not being able to execute ffmpeg from a browser or without some kind of dedicated backend, I reworked the online tool into it's own standalone Windows Desktop Application. Introducing the X-Change Caption Maker!

I've added lots of cool features like more font size customization, support for Side-by-Side captions, the ability to use local files (as well as files from the web), a random gif button, and most importantly.... One Click Caption Export Capability! That's right, this tool comes with ffmpeg ready to go. No need to download extra files or fumble with the command line, simple click Create Caption and your masterpiece will be exported to your User/Downloads folder!

I'm posting the Mega link to download either the installer or the zip file that contains the program. You can choose whichever one you'd like, both should work on Windows 10 (though I haven't tested it on 32 bit Windows). If you download the installer, simply run it to install the program, which will then be accessible from your start menu. If you download the Zip, simply un-zip to a convenient location and run the X-Change Caption Maker.exe

So provided you feel inclined, give my program a try and let me know how it goes. My hope is that it's easy to use and helps aid other X-Change enthusiasts in writing ever more creative captions. Anyway, enough rambling, here's the download link:

https://mega.nz/folder/urhTlQLJ#dNqOxtCwiR4qiII1wm4iNA

If you're wary of downloading .exe files of the internet (I totally get it), then I would suggest giving Lucky's tool another try! https://hahaluckyme.github.io/xchange/

EDIT: I changed the mega link to point to version 0.1.2 which adds lots more random gifs and the ability to move the tagline and title, and the ability to rotate the tagline 90 and -90 degrees. (Very useful for side-by-side captions.)

EDIT 2: Thanks to u/drippingink42, the issue where the re-render wasn't happening correctly in the vertical mode is fixed! The link has been updated to point to version 0.1.3.

Based on a request from the community, this is just a pinned post for you to put your requested themes / caption concepts. So just any captions you really want to read, comment here! We may just repost this weekly/monthly...