Premiere Pro caption guides

Add captions in Premiere Pro using Speech to Text. Follow the transcript, caption track, Properties styling, and burn-in or SRT export steps in this guide.

Generate auto captions in Premiere Pro with Speech to Text. Choose the dialogue track, create subtitles, fix mistakes, style the text, and export your video.

Compare native single-word captions, manually animated graphics, and Captions Gen for Premiere Pro. Choose a workflow for subtitles or karaoke highlights.

Fix missing captions in Premiere Pro: enable the caption track, create captions from your transcript, check text styling, and choose the right export option.

Premiere Pro treats subtitles and closed captions differently. Which format to pick, what each one can do, and how to switch between them.

Two ways to add subtitles in Premiere Pro: generate them automatically from the audio, or import an .srt file. Styling and export included.

Change the font, size, color and background of captions in Premiere Pro, apply it to every caption at once with Track Styles, and fix fonts that won't apply.

How caption presets and Track Styles work in Premiere Pro, how to save your own, and where ready-made animated caption presets come from.

How to upgrade captions to graphics in Premiere Pro so you can animate and style them freely, what you lose, and when a plugin is faster.

Captions show in Premiere Pro but not in the exported video? It's almost always the Captions tab in the export dialog. Fix it in 30 seconds.

How to set the transcription language in Premiere Pro, what to do when captions come out in the wrong language, and which languages work.

Create a moving highlight across spoken words in Premiere Pro using editable graphics. Compare manual timing with a caption plugin for karaoke-style text.

How to create CEA-608 and 708 closed captions in Premiere Pro, style within the standard, and export them for broadcast or streaming delivery.

Add text to a video in Premiere Pro with the Type tool, style it in Properties, and know when to use captions instead of titles.

Free ways to get auto captions in Premiere Pro: the built-in tool, free trials of caption plugins, and what each one gives you for nothing.

What separates caption plugins for Premiere Pro: transcription quality, native graphics, animation styles, pricing. A checklist, and where Captions Gen fits.

Create word-by-word captions in Premiere Pro with the native Single Word layout, or use graphics for a moving highlight. Styling and export choices explained.

Set up captions for vertical video in Premiere Pro: sequence settings, safe zones, size, line length, and the animated style that holds attention.

How to import an .srt into Premiere Pro as a caption track, fix timing offsets, style it, and export an .srt sidecar from your captions.

Transcribe sequence greyed out, stuck, or producing garbage? Seven causes of Premiere Pro speech to text problems and the fix for each.

Captions out of sync in Premiere Pro? How to shift, retime, split and merge captions, and why auto captions drift after an edit.

CapCut's auto captions vs Premiere Pro's: accuracy, styling, animation, editing, and how to get CapCut-style captions without leaving Premiere.

Fonts that read on a phone at speed: bold sans faces that work for short-form captions, plus sizes, stroke and background settings that keep them legible.

Burn captions into the video in Premiere Pro so they show on every platform: the exact export setting, quality tips, and when a sidecar is better.