feat: Add Captions/Subtitles Support with Custom Styling Options (#991)

[Rucha0901]

Description

Implemented custom captions/subtitles support in exported videos. Users can upload .srt files, customize subtitle styling (font family, size, color, background opacity, text shadows) with an interactive WYSIWYG canvas overlay preview, and burn subtitles directly into the final exported video using dynamic FFmpeg drawtext filters with on-the-fly Google Fonts downloading.

Key changes:

• Merged successfully with latest upstream/main.
• Resolved conflicts in src/components/VideoPreview.tsx to display subtitle overlays in perfect sync side-by-side with draggable text overlays, crop boundaries, and comparison layers.
• Resolved conflicts in src/components/VideoEditor.tsx and src/hooks/useVideoEditor.ts to seamlessly manage active time states, completion sounds, and collapsible subtitles options panels.
• Configured @vitejs/plugin-react and added robust mock implementations for localStorage and window.matchMedia in vitest.setup.ts to guarantee 100% test coverage.
• Fully type-safe and compliant with ESLint modern web accessibility standards.

Related Issue

Closes #991

Type of Contribution

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Documentation update
• Refactor
• GSSoC contribution

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• GitHub username: Rucha0901
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[magic-peach]

@Rucha0901 This PR has developed merge conflicts with main due to recent merges. The CI has passed and the subtitles implementation looks solid overall! Please rebase your branch on main to resolve the conflicts:

git fetch upstream
git checkout feat/subtitles-support-991
git rebase upstream/main
# resolve any conflicts, then:
git push --force-with-lease origin feat/subtitles-support-991

One note for after rebasing: the PR fetches fonts from fonts.gstatic.com at export time — make sure this is tested with network restrictions as it could fail for offline users. Consider adding a fallback if the font fetch fails.

Once rebased and CI re-runs cleanly, this will be ready to merge!