How to Auto-Transcribe and Add Captions in Premiere Pro for Social Media (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: A very cool new feature in Premiere Pro is the ability to auto-transcribe your timeline and use that transcription to add captions to your video. This comes in handy when creating content for clients for broadcast, and especially for social media. Getting started is easy. Once you have a completed timeline, open up the text window in Premiere Pro. Click Transcribe Sequence. Choose what needs to be transcribed. If you've got audio tagged as dialogue, you can choose that option. On my timeline, I simply have a voiceover track on Audio 1, so I'll choose that. There's a handy extra feature you can choose. Opt in to recognizing when different speakers are talking. That will separate out the two speakers in the transcription. I'll hit Transcribe and let it do its thing. Premiere will render the audio and upload it to its server. When it's done, it will show the transcription in the text window. The speaker's name is on the left and the verbiage is on the right. I can edit the speaker's names and add speakers if I need to. It really does a good job at transcription, but it's a good idea to proofread through and make any corrections, especially if you're dealing with proper names and brands that it didn't recognize. You can even play the sequence and follow along with the transcription. The word currently spoken is highlighted, and you can see the progress noted with light and bold text. Some spots are underlined. This notes spots that Premiere is not sure about and thinks might be incorrect. When you're happy with the edits, click Create Captions. There are a bunch of style options based on different caption specs, but I'll just go with the defaults and click Create. Now the generated captions appear in the Captions window, and Premiere has added a caption track to the timeline. When selected, you can move the captions as needed and style them in the Essential Graphics panel. From the Captions window, you can export the captions to different formats. YouTube accepts the SRT format, so we'll export the SRT sidecar file. You can also do this on Export in the Captions section of Export Settings. Additionally, you could burn the captions into the exported file if that's what you need. Because this video is on the FX Factory YouTube channel, I have to mention their very cool app called Caption Converter. I can use this to import the SRT file and do further editing with much more powerful features. I'll put a link in the description to a video all about Caption Converter. For final delivery, send the SRT file along with the video file. If you're uploading to YouTube, you have the option of uploading that file with the video file, and YouTube will handle the rest. Try out a wide range of great audio and visual effects at fxfactory.com.