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# AVCaptionGroup

An object that represents zero or more captions that intersect in time.

```
class AVCaptionGroup
```

## Topics

### Creating a caption group

[`-  initWithTimeRange:`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptionGroup/init(timeRange:))

Creates a caption group with a time range.

[`-  initWithCaptions:timeRange:`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptionGroup/init(captions:timeRange:))

Creates a caption group with captions and a time range.

### Inspecting the caption group

[`captions`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptionGroup/captions)

The captions associated with the caption group.

[`timeRange`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptionGroup/timeRange)

The time range of the caption group.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Escapable`](/documentation/Swift/Escapable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`Copyable`](/documentation/Swift/Copyable)

[`SupportedPayload`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVAssetReaderOutput/SupportedPayload)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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