Easily Add Subtitles to a Video in Premiere Pro

Quickly use the auto transcription tool to capture speech to text and then edit your captions easily in Premiere Pro! Export your subtitles baked into the footage or as a closed caption SRT file.

0:00 Intro
0:42 Getting your timeline ready
2:13 The Captions and Graphics Tab
2:35 Importing and SRT file into Premiere Pro
2:55 Creating manual caption tracks
4:18 Add a new caption segment
5:23 Automatic transcriptions in Premiere
7:07 How to fix small mistakes in the auto transcription
7:58 Generating subtitles from automatic transcription
9:57 Customizing your subtitles in the Essential Graphics tab
12:46 Exporting custom subtitles and generating SRT sidecar files
15:26 Uploading SRT files to YouTube for custom subtitles and closed captions

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[alannasmith]

So very handy! I followed this step-by-step and you made the process clear and concise, and so vey easy to understand, even for someone not so techy! Thank you so much!

[richerdmaxime]

thanks a lot i though it was stupid to watch a 20 min video about caption but it probably will save me much more time in the future. Very useful !

[pelican]

Thank you for the tutorial on how to add them manually, the project I have to do is not in English so I have to translate and then add captions and most tutorials were for auto-captioning !

[marshaldurham]

Dude it's 3am right now, and I've been working on this video project all night and I forgot to burn the text. This helped a lot. God bless you, sir

[tonytalkstoomuch]

Awesome. I was doing these by hand on my videos and costing myself hours like a peasant.

[wesmathur]

yess so helpful and I love your energy!!

[marklard]

The video was very helpful. However, I'm still trying to figure out a way to change the default style settings for captions so that it automatically goes to those settings when I open a new project. Any advice?

[ValmisFilm]

Is there a way to use Q and W keys for subtitles? I can not use them there :S Although it would be very needed.

[Verdekiwi]

Do you know how can I make “japanese youtube style” subtitles? Using different style I guess?

[Roasti]

For some reason I am not able to render the video unless I hide the subtitle track! Any help?

[WhatsinyourBible]

There is no Captions and Graphics tab on my Premier Pro

[gibsbone]

Can the subs move along with the video?

[twitterienne]

how can you put the subtitles ON the video, mine or behind it

[shaunclapham]

when should I use Render at Maximum Depth?

[cvqotve]

how do i delete transcript from premiere pro?

[theloge]

Doesnt work. I dont have the captions and graphics tab.

[samirbhandari]

Who came here to see if he's mr beast🤣