NEW Caption and Subtitle update in Adobe Premiere Pro 

No other tutorial explained that you need to adjust the settings on export if you're using .264/.265. Thank you for being the only one who is thorough!

quick question, is there anyway with this new update, to finish subtitling a full video, and then export as an SRT file, only to then IMPORT that same SRT file and somehow change it to an open caption? I don't care if the subtitles are burned into my video, but I want to be able to animate the subtitles and add video effects to them. I know if they are open captions you can do this but I'm not quite sure if its possible anymore. you used to be able to do it but now with the auto transcribing they took a lot of the customizability out it seems. if you know how to do this that would be MUCH appreciated and if you take a look at any of my videos you can get a solid idea of exactly what I mean by putting video effects on the subtitles. normally I have to painstakingly manually subtitle using titles but I hope to speed that process up much more by auto transcribing. thanks in advance!

Editing or typing new caption segments seems to be EXTREMELY laggy. Like, I type something and it doesn't appear on screen for another 2-3 seconds. Extremely frustrating when typing new captions, and even moreso when your typing results in a typo and you have to fix that. I have 64GB of RAM, which is not being filled up, and while my GPU does have some usage, it's not peaking out either. CPU is barely being used, same with my disks. So I have no idea what's causing the slowness of this new captioning method. The old style was a smoother experience for me because of this, even though I like the concept of the new process. EDIT: I just tried it on a blank project, and it types perfectly. So the issue is that I'm typing captions on a sequence that has thousands of edits on it. Obviously, this shouldn't be an issue as Premiere should be able to handle that, but alas. In the mean time I think I will render out the sequence to a format that encodes quickly, and create a new sequence with just that encode, and continue my subtitling work on that, since it will be much faster. I hope adobe fixes this. It's a massive issue.

Thanks appreciate you making this. I'm deaf so it's great that more and more companies are thinking of this and integrating. Google came out with Live Captions which works really nicely. And this transcription feature will work great to put a link to it next to an embedded video.

Hello Sir, Really nice tutorial. I need to change the color of the transcribed text as I speak, words should highlight for a language-speaking tutorial as I say each word. Would it be possible in premiere pro?

Hi Colin! Thank you for the video! I was importing .scc closed captions in Premiere pro 2020 without any problems...but since Premiere Pro 2021 and 2022 , importing .scc files are a mess! i spend 2 days trying to figure it out a way to fix it with no luck! Adobe doesn't not recognize the formated CEA-608 layout anymore..No more Roll ups, the captions are not even centered! For the past 2 years i'm received cea-608 closed captions each week by the same company and bang i updates Premiere and it's not working anymore! I feel like Adobe are leaving broadcasters behind! I've seen many videos talking about captions on Premiere but no one speaks about the cea-608 import problem! I understand that most of the people don't care about cea-608 format closed captions because they use .srt for youtube, but it's really a big problem for the one who use cea-608 closed captions. Have a good one!!

I am looking your video showing how to convert English to difference languages and if you don't have it, can you make one please?. I also want to get rid of the existing caption and replace it with different language into the video. Thank you!

You're my new favorite person in the whole world. Thank you for this!!

Is there any way to turn the subtitles into mogrt files?

OMG you saved my life at the 11th hour. Was shocked to discover this option (so needed by my audience) but never would have conquered the learning curve without your assistance. Every time I needed to know something, it was your next topic! Brilliant. One issue though...when I edit the caption itself it does not save. I have to edit the transcript and save. It does appear correctly on the caption. Wish there was a way to delete a transcription since I am using the same template 27 times.

Broken for me. It says it has transcribed the seq, but never actually produces any text. It worked fine a couple of weeks ago...

What version of Win 10 are u using? Is it the native Windows Notepad at 5:43? Also, the File Explorer window looks cool! Haha. Sorry if i'm too dumb to know this! 😬

It all looks wonderful. However, I could not find the "Transcribe sequence" button. My Premiere Pro 2021 is in German language I have to add. However, I did not seee why this would have to be different from the English version. What I had to find out is that I had to apply for early access to Speech to Text. I filled out the form and I was told that I would hear from Adobe in a few months(!). I also changed the language of the interface to English but obviously it did not change the fact that the transcription button is not visible. I am really disappointed about a new feature which is not even available for all.

Great video man I knew a chunk of this but learned a lot more thank you. I do have a question my current version which is 2022 automatically updates all the styles and won't let me adjust it individually anymore. Do you know how we can change that? I use the subtitles when creating tiktok videos and when I have multiple speakers I like to change the background colors so people can quickly grasp it's a different person. When I set one up for one speaker it changes it for all of the tracks

loud and clear ! thx for solving my issues.

Has anyone here tried export to MXF OP1a with embedded 608 closed captions only to find out that it doesn't work for them? VLC doesn't see them. My broadcast playback system by Crispin doesn't see them. Reimporting the file into Premiere shows a CC track though. I can view MXF's on VLC with CC (created with a dedicated machine and stenographer) and toggle them on/off just fine. (It shows that they are 608).I can import those MXF's into Premiere and it sees the CC track just fine. I just can't export an MXF OP1a with embedded CC that other playback options can see -- only Premiere can see the CC in the exported file. (Requirements: MPEG-2 video, 1440x1080, 1.33 ratio, 2-channel PCM audio, all wrapped in an MXF)

Hi, thank you for the tutorial. I seem not to be able to export the transcription file. Did you try that? A text file with times, so one can do a paper edit? Whatever came out of it, is either text without times or no readable file. Thank you.

Is it possible to export in/out markers and keep captions in sync?

Have you experienced the "ghosting" captions bug when updating a v14 project that previously had captions into v15?

I have 5 speakers! What would be the most efficient way of giving them their own style (color)? 5 subtitle tracks and apply the person-specific style to each track, then delete the caption blocks that don't related to that speaker from the track?

Unable to see the subtitles after exporting, wondering what went wrong. Can you help me?

This is one of the most exciting tutorials for Premiere that I've seen. Can't wait to watch more of your videos! Thank you! LOVE your enthusiasm!!!!

I wish we could add caption to the source video, not just in the timeline, so that when you take one clip into the timeline, the caption go with it.

This is really freaking Awesome... And or course, your video is trully helpfull (please excuse my latino english) thanks a lot, and saludos desde Colombia

Is there a way you can differentiate between speakers when changing subtitle colour etc across the video? I can change the colour/design of all the subtitles at once but it would be great if I could e.g. make Speaker 1 be yellow and Speaker 2 be green, without having to do them one by one. Is that possible please?

Can Premiere export SCC and CAP formats?

HI created a subtitle file with a background and with some styles and I ticked 'include SRT style' while exporting the video in Premiere. But when play in the video with subtitles in the computer player, styles are not working. Just play plain text style. How to sort it?

Hi! Came across your tutorials many months ago and LOVE them! A work colleuge pasted this along for work purposes because of the video devleopment I do, just so happened that I was subscribed to you. lol Do you happen to know if there is an easier way for speaker selection? Is this automatically or entirely manual? Thanks!

Love this tutorial Colin! Your enthusiasm is infectious. I chose your tutorial on this subject not just because I always enjoy and learn so much with from them but first up because of the happy look on your face! Your style is so explicit and doesn't assume prior knowledge about the topic which make them so easy to follow. Thank you so much!

This is still not showing for me. I tried using Adobe Cloud to update to 15.2, which it says it's updated to, but the program only says 15.0; either way, there is no transcription button.

How do you export a mxf op1a with EIA608/708 a/53 DTVCC Transport for broadcast video server playout?

Is there a way to expand how much text shows on screen? Mine doesn’t show all that’s typed on the screen

Is there a way when moving between captions to check them to have Premiere automatically select text properties in the graphics panel? Now I have to click each time on the text object to activate its properties, tracking size etc...

i know this is old but can you change the audio of what you are using from like english to another language? as in English to Japanese or like english to Spanish I don't want subtitles or captions I wanna change the actual audio

In the previous version of Premiere Pro, I was able to add multiple captions and make them visible in order to have English/Spanish on screen. But in the latest version only one track of captioning is available. This makes it hard for those of us who are working on making our videos accessible to multiple audiences. Please bring back the ability to have multiple tracks of captioning visible at the same time. ¿Does anyone have a solution for this issue?

What to do if my dialogue is not aligned with the words on the program monitor. The words on the program monitor are way behind.

Fantástico 🙌🏽👏🏽

Great tutorial But in my case I have to do the video length wise or take the right side and make that the bottom of the screen, I just need to know How to spin the CC so it looks correct when the right hand of the screen is turned into the bottom of the screen

Ignore my previous post. Apparently, I have to open the captions tab in the Media encoder and choose 'burn captions.'

It's awesome but I need Dutch language or dutch audio to englisch subtitles. but awesome tutorial Colin (again)

Amazing! But I've not understood the "Service" option. Thanks to explain (perhaps I've missed something...)

Likelikelikelike!!!! This opens a world of opportunities. Thanks for your clear and detailed class!

When editing captions on youtube why is there three lines on screen instead of two whereas on someone else's computer it shows two lines?

how to delete Transcript and how make subtitle manually?

Why dont i get up Transcript when i klick Captions? I only get up Create new caption and import captions from file. ? Is this not for Sweden? I have the latest update. Imac and OS Catalina

This basic function still sucks so hard after over twenty years of Premiere's existance and was added only THREE MONTHS ago in its current form... Crippling bugs, like not being able to edit a caption more than once for some unfathomable reason, crashes, hangups, convoluted text formatting, non-functional positioning options... This company has 15 billion of total annual revenue, yet it screws up something as simple as a caption editor in a product that costs 30 bucks a month XD

I'm only halfway and this was already SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much. Fantastic work.

I'm sorry but Adobe don't seem to have a clue about how Subtitles actually work outside of the US. No control over Teletext page numbers, terrible embedding options (in v15), Oh, and don't even think about updating to v22 as they completely removed the embed option form that version - way to go Adobe.

Hey. I'm having trouble exporting the .srt file. Everytime I'm exporting and add that srt file to VLC player just to see how this looks I found out that the font automatically changes and even when I'm trying to import that file the font size everything changes. What to do? Please help

When using the Subtitle caption option and exporting an SRT sidecar file with the "include SRT styling" option turned on, it does NOT include the formatting. Is there a method for including format information, such as position and colour?

Question .... When burning in my captions the size remains the same....when creating a sidecar with an SRT file the captions size changes and they start to impede my lower thirds etc ....any idea on how to maintain the the resolution when exporting as sidecar? I have tried to tick include SRT styling and whilst it keeps the font it still overlaps

they haven't thought of everything. US English is not everywhere just for one. Selecting multiple captions and changing the speaker. Atuo detection of speaker doesn't work for me - at all.

is it possible to take the PRTRANSCRIPT file, and export a timecoded text broken down by speaker? Its so annoying I am able to create a full transcript, but when trying to export that out for an editor to make notes, it does not allow me to do this....

hi, thsnks lot for this trutorial. realy helpful can i change the caption speed when i change the movie speed. for example if i add TimeCode to a movie, i can NEST it with the video, and from now on, if i change the movie speed (faster or slawer), the TimeCode will run with the movie at same speed. can i do it with caption too ? thank u verry much

This is very exciting...but I can't find it! I have a captions workspace but no Text area. I believe I'm on the latest version of CC with no updates pending...

Hi,thanks for helpful video, I still have a question, how can I have two subtitles at once? Like English and Spanish??I really need this on

Hi Colin, great tutorial, I have the BETA version which transcribes in the computer, where has the option gone in the full version to carry this out in the computer rather than sending to the CLOUD. I live in the UK in a remote area and the internet connection is rubbish.

BTW I expected the Split command to make two subtitles. One with the text up to the point that I placed the cursor in the text block, and another starting at that point. Instead, it just created to copies of the subtitle which I had to manually edit. Please fix this Adobe.

I manage all well, but VIMEO WONT show the subtitles even after the file gets uploaded into VImeo. Even when toggled on is just INVISIBLE. THE SUB DO NOT SHOW. what is the problem? can anybody help? please...I beg you all.. love and peace

is it possible to animate the caption? for example.....making it appear small to big very quickly for each caption?

The auto generated text is quite good. However, I don't seem to have any control over the creation of the segmenting of the captions when adding them from the transcription. It makes the segments too short. Is there any way to adjust this?

I wish there was a way to tell it to stop placing a period at the end of each sentence.

niiice, i should pay more attention to documentation, thx :) later edit: is no "Captions" panel up there and the "text" not showing in the "window" area. what is wrong? (June 4, 2021)

Anyone have any idea how to edit individual words on a caption?

Sorry to point it out, but you did not put subtitles into this youtube video or published the featured example. It would have made a good example of this new feature applied.

sir only position change is not work dynamically

how do we export with 2 subs at the same time ex. english sub and spanish? i tried many ways.. it allows only single subs export.

I am getting issue in this i cannot transcribe audio the transcribe button is unclickable when i hower cursir over it it says "bad network response " i tried with different internet but nothing happened

I am having some issues. Whenever I click on create captions. It is loading and then nothing happens. Can someone give me some tips?

I changed the speaker’s name in the transcript panel, expecting it to annotate the subtitle onscreen. It did not. Is there a way to do this?

Great great , could you plz showing how exactly export and import when you translate to any other language

Have just updated my premiere pro but I'm not getting auto transcript option why?

What if the interviewee speaks french? Would it be able to convert it to english? Thanks

how do you not have a billion subs? your the best. not the fastest but def the best. Thanks for everything!

We do a ton of technical training in industries with a high percentage of Spanish speaking techs. This new capability is marvelous. Tried Google Translate in the past and it's highly inaccurate. What translation services/software have others successfully used?

I've used Digital Anarchy's "Transcriptive" software for over a year now, which I had to pay for (and pay a few cents per transcript). The transcripts happen very quickly, with very good accuracy, but I do spend a lot of time proofreading them (I export them as documents). Has anyone been able to compare these? (Side note - I haven't been able to open PP2021 at all because it apparently doesn't like old plugins and Adobe is saying that I have to delete them all and reinstall them; hoping that I'll have better luck with 15.3)

Is it possible to export a simple text file (i.e., NOT .srt) without the timeline indicators or other close caption inserts? By text I mean .txt. I simply want a text file of a video that I just made.

Hey, do you know if there is a way to make the same caption or word be 2 different colors?

Colin which version of Premiere Pro has this facility?

So you can only transcribe timelines, not clips? Since the text is linked to the timeline and not the clip itself, it's next to impossible to edit your timeline based on what you read. Once you move or trim your clips in the timeline, the transcription will be out of sync. They really need to get the text to link to the clip level itself so we can use the source monitor to edit in/out points that way based on text.

Really cool feature!

Very helpful! Thank you!

How can you open transcpirt panel like that? I cant find this one.

Hi Colin. Could you help me out with something? On the previous version when we put a background on the captions it used to correspond the line when talking about two lines captions. If the up caption is smaller than the other one, the background would cut and follow it. Now is all a huge square. Do you know if there is a way of changing that to be still like that on this new version? Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorials. After you have exported the captions to SRT file, how do open that SRT file so that you can translate it into another language like French or Spanish?

Hey, what is the program using to save as SRT after translation the caption plz

I really appreciated this video and found it very helpful. I am having difficulty applying your video on karaoke presentations of 3 yrs. ago with the current version of Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 is there any chance you will be covering Karaoke projects with the current version APP? Anthony Aylen

And what is format after export and what is import format?

Great work Colin, excellent video, awesome tutorial, thanks!

Hi Colin. How do I move a chunk of text from one subtitle to the next - or previous - subtitle? Also, how so I increase the size of text in the transcription window? I use a 4K monitor, and the text in that window is so small, it is hard to read and edit. Thanks

Extremely useful, and particularly timely for me!

Thank you for this video!!! I'm finishing a feature in Premiere with Spanish to English translation subtitles and have been a bit confused on the difference between Closed Captioning and Subtitles. This saved my team and I so much time!!!

ARE THE NEW UPDATES AVAILABLE FOR OLDER VERSIONS

No doubt, this is awesome, innovative, time saving but you know, this is nothing but another step towards killing the job of transcriber, captioner...All this AI is nothing but a curse. What about those people who does this job for their living and knows nothing else? Proud moment for Adobe, huh??

So, at 1:03 I hear there's no point to this video?

Really appreciated the video! Do you know if its possible to save your captions as a preset? ie - colour for on screen captions, size, positioning etc

"You don't really add captions until you've finished editing" Not necessarily/ for text heavy content like interviews, speeches I use the transcription word search to jump around in the timeline to find edit points. So it's great to have the transcript done right away for use moving around if you known sentences you are looking for as edit points. Still working out the ins and outs of this tool. Spelling is in US English not UK or USA, Names and some words are wrong so I need a workflow to take it into InDesign or a text editor for corrections and then bring it back into PPro. I hope i can get that workflow happening because it's a slow tool to change every American spelling to UK English or whatever.

Greetings Mr. Smith. As always a great tutorial. And this feature is amazing and long time in coming. Im an old Avid guy from the nineties and I remember a similar feature I used back then. I find a couple of things lacking however and I'm hoping you will say - "but have you tried this way" to alleviate the problem. My company has a particular style when it comes to subtitles and that is to add 3 frames fades at head and tail of each subtitle unless their spliced together of course. The subtitle track does not allow this to be done? You can't even copy and paste the subtitles to another track to try and do this or even use key frames to do the fades? Again - a great leap forward by Adobe but as far as I can tell they "have yet to think of everything" on this particular feature? Perplexing to say the least.

And how do you change .txt file into .srt file?

What version of Premiere Pro are these new Captions and subtitles included in?