How to Create Automatic Captions in Any Language Using Clipchamp (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: We all know how horrible it is to create captions for your videos, but luckily in 2022, Adobe introduced automatic captions for Premiere Pro. But there is one major issue. It is only available in a very small handful of languages. For example, my native language Finnish is not available in Premiere's auto-captioning tool. But luckily, there is a way how you can automatically create captions for your videos in almost any language out there. The first thing you want to do is edit your video normally and then export it out of Premiere. The export settings don't matter at all at this point, but I would highly recommend you export the video without any music so that the spoken audio is the only audio in the video. Next, open up your browser and go to clipchamp.com. Clipchamp is a free web-based video editing platform that has an auto-captioning feature which is actually quite powerful. Do note that Clipchamp doesn't work on all browsers. Your best bet is to download Microsoft Edge and use that. For example, I couldn't get it to work on Chrome or on Safari. If it's your first time using Clipchamp, you need to create an account or you can also log in using your Google account or your Microsoft account. Once you've logged in, click on create a new video. This will take you to the editor. Now you can just drag and drop your video into Clipchamp and then drag and drop your video onto Clipchamp's timeline to create a sequence. In here, you want to click on the captions button in the top right corner and then click on turn on auto-captions. From here, you can select the language of your video and the list of supported languages is long. I mean, just compare these to the available languages in Premiere Pro. Adobe really has some catching up to do. My sample video here is in Finnish, so that's what I will select and then click on turn on auto-captions. Now Clipchamp will analyze your audio for a while and once it's done, you'll see a transcript pop up. You can either do the necessary corrections to your transcription here in Clipchamp or later on in Premiere. To get the captions into Premiere, you want to click on download captions, go back to Premiere and open up the text panel by going up to window and selecting text. Here you can click on import captions from file and then select your downloaded .srt captions file. If you want to, you can change the format, style and start point of the captions, but usually all you need to do is click on OK and now you have your automatically created captions in your timeline in Premiere Pro. Now the captions most likely won't be perfect, so you'll have to do some manual tweaking, but most of the work is done at this point. You can also tweak the style of the captions however you want to in the essential graphics panel and then export your captioned video out of Premiere Pro in full quality. So until Adobe adds support for more languages in Premiere Pro, this is how you can create automatic captions for your videos in almost any language for free. Now I don't know if Clipchamp will remain free forever, but at least at the point of recording this video, there is a free and a paid version available, so let's hope it stays that way. If you have any questions, just drop a comment down below and I'll do my best to answer you. But that is all I have for today, thank you for watching and I hope I'll see you in the next one. Shabbaaah.