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How to make automatic captions in Premiere Pro
Is it really possible to create captions automatically inside Premiere Pro?
The answer is YES!
In this video (link below) I have imported one of my YouTube videos and divided it after the intro part. Now, I will put subtitles on the intro part. (For demonstrational purposes, I’m moving the audio from this part down to track 2 in the video.)
Now, I place the playhead at the start of the intro and click “I” to set an In-point and then I place the playhead at the end of the intro and click “O” to set an Out-point.
Now, I go up to the menu, click “Window” and select “Text”.
If I go to the tab “Captions” in the Text window, there is a button where it says “Transcribe sequence”.
Click that button and a window will popup with a bunch of options.
Choose the track you want to transcribe, in this case, track 2, choose desired language, select “transcribe in-point to out-point only” and then click “Transcribe”.
(This process can take some time depending on the length of the clip and it will, at least at the time of this recording, require that you are connected to the internet while doing this.)
Once this is done, click on your text and hit the spacebar to play the video…
