Speaker 1: Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. How are you, my friend? I hope you're having a beautiful day and if not, I'm very sure that you're doing your best to turn it into a happy one. Well, in this video, we're going to talk about captions and when it comes to captions, they're not only a necessity for our friends who are hard of hearing, but it also saves you in a lot of awkward situations, doesn't it? Let's say you are in an event or a function and it's just getting boring and boring and you want to scroll through social media videos and it would be disrespecting for people if you put your headphones on or turn up the volume. Who saves you at the time? Captions. They just save your brass. Well, when it comes to adding captions to your videos, it can either be a pain in the neck or a hole in the pocket, but not anymore. Premiere Pro has recently added a feature where you can automatically generate captions and not just that, also time it properly, accurately, precisely. Everything using the speech to text feature in Premiere Pro. In this video, we'll learn how you can use this feature to increase the reach of your videos, not just among some of our friends who are hard of hearing, but also among a lot of people who just watch videos with captions. You and I all the time, we observe ourselves on social media scrolling and we're just watching videos with captions with no sound on. So that's important. I'm excited to share with you how it works. So without any further ado, let's get started. Before we begin, I have a major announcement for you. More than 50 lessons, 8 modules, content on everything Photoshop, 30 plus hours of engaging Photoshop videos, tutorials, everything launching soon this November. I cannot tell you more at the moment. If you want to know more, go ahead and check the link in the description or go to pix.live slash free classes to get your free gift. Let's get back to the tutorial. Back in the magical world of Premiere Pro and if you want to go ahead and download any of the sample footage and follow along, check the link in the description. To have this feature available, first of all, make sure that you are on Premiere Pro version 15.4 or above. So here's the sample footage from one of our previous videos. Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. Alright, so let's add captions to it. So there's a couple ways to do it. You can click on captions at the top to switch to captions workspace. If you don't see anything like that, you can click on the grid right there and choose reset to saved layout. All right. Let's make it a little larger. That's one. If you cannot find the captions workspace at the top, you can go to window, workspaces and then make sure captions is checked right over there. There's a dot, not a check. And the third way is, even if you are in the editing workspace, you can go to window and just choose text to have this open. Lots of ways to do the exact same thing. You can stick the text here and it works too. Now in this new version of Premiere Pro, apart from these two buttons, which were already there, you'll find a new button called transcribe sequence. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, don't worry, I'll tell you what to do. First of all, we will figure out what audio do we want to transcribe. In this case, we will choose audio on track, which is this audio, all of the audio on track. However, if your video has a lot of sound effects, a lot of other different types of audio, apart from the dialogue, in that case, you might want to tag the audio clips, which are just dialogues. So in that case, you might choose the first one. We have not tagged anything as dialogues. And to do that, first of all, let's hit cancel. You can choose this audio, you can go to the essential sound panel by going to window and then choose essential sound. And in there, you can just click on dialogue to tag it as dialogue. Now when you click on transcribe settings, you can choose this option. So you can select the audio clips which are dialogue and tag it as dialogue. And then you can choose this to only transcribe them in case your video has lots of sound effects which can be disturbing. So in this case, there's nothing like that. And I want to remove the tag by clicking on clear audio type. And we don't need essential sound panel right over there. Anyway, let's do the transcribe sequence and audio on track. You can have a mix of all of the audio right there or you can have just audio one, which is A1. So everything in A1 will be transcribed. Now, choose the language. In this case, I'm going to choose English. And interestingly, it also has Hindi right over here. See, my monitor is not, there's a scaling so I cannot show it but you can see it right there. There's that, which is cool, isn't it? The first option is transcribe in point to out point only. So if you have defined in and out points or certain section of the video, you can only transcribe that particular section if you wish to. So you can check that if you want that. And then you can also merge the output with existing transcription. If you have already have had a transcription done of it, on top of it, you want to create another transcription of a section and you want to merge both, you can do that. But we don't want to do any of that. Also, the third option is important. That is opt in to recognize when different speakers are talking. If you have different speakers talking in your video, you can check that. By the way, there's a legal notice which you need to enable. So that way, it'll be able to recognize when Unmesh is talking or where there's another person in the video that is talking, maybe Scott Kelby. So if Unmesh is talking, you can just set, like this voice is Unmesh, you can just set that that voice is of Scott Kelby. So you can have different names showing up in the captions when they are speaking. All right, so I don't want any of that and just click on transcribe. And by the way, this is going to be processed in the cloud. It doesn't take long, but this is going to be processed in the cloud. So if you don't have an active internet connection while you're using this or, well, you know what I'm talking about. In that case, it won't work. Have a look, the transcription is done. Let's play it. Hi there, this is Unmesh from Picsimperfect. I hope you're having a great day and if not, there are a couple mistakes here and there. Just a couple. Let's go ahead and correct that. And those are just name mistakes in the beginning. There's some mistakes. So you can easily correct them. Hi there, comma, mash. This is interesting. This is Unmesh. Let's correct that. And Picsimperfect. And by the way, you can click on any word and it will take you to that place in the timeline. So if you click on awesome, awesome one. Today I'm going to share with you, see it takes you there. Let's click here. Extremely harsh. It takes you there. So run through it. Hi there, this is Unmesh from Picsimperfect. See if there are any mistakes, correct them, and then you can create the captions. Let's play it once. Picsimperfect. I hope you're having a great day. And if not, I'm sure that you, my friend, are doing your best to make it an awesome one. Today I'm going to. I love that it has included punctuations and proper capitalization. I love that. I'm going to show you how to fix harsh lighting in Photoshop. In other words, see, P is capital in Photoshop, but Adobe does know its products well. How to remove extremely harsh shadows and extremely harsh highlights and overall dim it down. And it's super easy to do. So without any further ado, let's get started. Awesome. Let's get started. I would add an exclamation right over there. If there are certain words which are repeatedly mistaken, for example, if there's a name I'm saying in the video again and again, and it's repeatedly taking Unmesh as mash. So I can just type in M-A-S-C-H-U, whatever it's doing, and replace it with the proper name. So you can find everything and replace everything. You can correct it. There's a lot of ways you can easily correct what is there. Also, if you move in the timeline, see, it moves there as well. You can add a speaker here if you wish to. So you can choose edit speaker and you can change the name of the unknown speaker to the speaker who is speaking and save it. So you know what speaker is there. This is very important for transcripts when you have multiple people speaking. Also, if you do want to export it, you can export all of it as a text file. You can choose export to text file and this will work. Now let's click on create captions. First of all, let's choose the caption preset. Subtitle default is fine. You can create your own preset if you wish to. This will just make a preset of all of these settings. Now first we have the format. Subtitle option here is closed caption. Everything else is open captions. So let's choose subtitle. And then you can save it as a sidecar file later. You can choose to burn it in the video. That's all up to you. I always choose subtitles. It works for most cases. Rest of the options you can choose according to your preference. For example, let's say you don't want more than 30 characters at once in the caption. So you can just reduce maximum length in characters to 30 here. But 42 is fine for me. Let's keep it at that and click on create. Also, you can choose the lines. So do you want a single line of captions or double line? So I'm going to choose double and let's click on create. There you go, my friend, you have the captions ready. Let's play it. And let me show you how this is. Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. I hope you're having a great day. And if not, I'm sure that you, my friend, are doing your best to make it an awesome one. It's just awesome, isn't it? Now, how do you edit that? Just select the individual subtitles or select all of them and simply go to the graphics tab or you can go to window and then essential graphics. It'll show up on the right hand side. So let's make it a little larger so that we can see what we are doing. And let's go to the edit section. And there you go. You can change the font here, do whatever you want. So let's select all of them. All right. And let's choose the font Arial, the most common and it just works. Arial, regular, looks good. So we're going to go to hi there. All right. Now here, you can choose to have shadow, you can choose to have backgrounds, that's up to you. So we can go ahead and just turn on background. I like that. So we can choose the background color to be black and have a little more opaque background. You can have a little more spread right over there. That's the way it is in Facebook, by the way. You can have a little more rounded corners. Let me make it a little larger so that you can see what's happening. All right. So we can have a little rounded corners here. This looks very, very nice. And let's play it. This is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. I hope you're having a great day. And if not, I'm sure that you might. Now, how do you export that? Select the timeline, go to File, Export, Media, there. And right in here, by the way, I'm sorry for the crazy scaling. Just to make it big and easy for you to see, I scaled it and it's just lots of options are just not visible. Anyway, so just go to the captions settings here. You can choose to burn the captions into the video. So it'll be just burned into the video and permanent right there. Or you can choose to create a sidecar file like SRT. You can choose the format right here as SRT, SubRip. Have a look right here. It shows SRT. And let's go ahead and export it. Have a look at the export right here. It comes with a sidecar file, which is SRT. So, you can just open it and play it. Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. I hope you're having a great day. And if not, I'm sure that you, my friend, are doing your best. Did you notice an awesome thing? This subtitle is separate. So if I right click on it and go to Subtitle, I can just turn it off. Disable. Make it an awesome one. Today, I'm going to share with you. And if I want, I can turn it on. See, that is the advantage of that. How to fix harsh lighting in Photoshop. In other words, how to remove extremely harsh. So that is the advantage of creating a sidecar file. So you can turn it off and turn it on. If you wanted to burn that subtitle permanently in the video, just choose that option. By the way, there's an advantage to burning that in the video and that is, it'll always be there. Some players online might not support subtitles. Or the other advantage here is that you can style the text however way you want. You can choose whatever font you want, you can choose however the background you want it to be. So there's a lot of options. Now, what to do if this feature is not working for some reason? And you know what I'm talking about. I highly recommend that we all support the people who create such software. But anyway, if this doesn't work for you, for some reason, I understand. This is what you do. This is a free alternative to this. The answer is simple. Just go to YouTube, upload your video, wait for a while, YouTube generates automatic captions. Now, they might not be accurate. Also, you probably don't know how long YouTube is going to take to generate them. Sometimes it can be instantly, sometimes it can take even more than a day. So it totally depends. Anyway, so once that is generated, click on Duplicate and Edit, click Continue. So here you have the transcript. Click on Edit Timings. And now, here you have the captions. So let's export it. Unfortunately, once you open this window, we cannot just download it as SRT. It will be an SBV file. No problem. Let's download it. Let's keep it as captions.sbv. Click on Save. Now we need to convert this SBV into SRT. This website will do that for you. Just do a quick Google search, convert SBV to SRT, and GoTranscript is going to show up. This has to work for me. So let's click on Download. Upload that captions.sbv. And then let's say I want to convert it to SRT. Click on Convert. And now let's get back to Premiere Pro with the same video we downloaded the captions for. So this is the video. Hi there, this is Unmesh from Picsimperfect. Now just simply click on Import Captions from File. And here you'll choose Captions.srt that we generated from YouTube and then converted it. Click on Open. Source timecode is fine because it matches with that of the video. Hit OK. And there you have it. Let's play it. Hi there, this is Unmesh from Picsimperfect. How are you doing, my friend? I hope you're having a brilliant day. And from here, you can repeat the same process that we did with the previous video. Correct it, customize it and export it the way you want. So that's how easy it is to generate captions in Premiere Pro. All you have to do is to go to the Captions tab or Captions workspace or just open Text dialog box. And from there, click on Transcribe. It'll take it to the cloud, it will process it, then make the corrections and then click on Create Captions. That's all there is to it. And then you can export it the way you want. You can create a sidecar file or burn it into the video. That's all there is. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you learned something new. And if you did, make sure to give us a like and also don't forget to subscribe and not just subscribe, ring the bell so that you, my friend, don't miss any other future tips, tricks or tutorials. I would like to take this moment to thank all these nice and amazing people for supporting Picsimperfect on Patreon and helping keep Picsimperfect free for everybody forever. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in my next one. Until then, stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating.