

If you made any mistakes in your transcribing, you can easily edit the text from the captions window. Edit the caption to your desired length, to match when it is being said on screen. The “+” sign will create a new clip of captions. To make a new segment, realign your playhead and do the process over again. Type into the segment what you’d like the subtitle to say, and realign the clip in your timeline to match the dialogue. You’ll see a small clip placed in the subtitle section of your timeline. Line your playhead at the start of the sentence you’d like to subtitle in the video, and then click the “+” icon to add a new caption segment. The highest layer in our timeline is now called “subtitle” and this is where the caption graphics will live. Click ok on the pop-up box, as the standard options are what we’ll want to use. First, we’ll need to “Create a new caption track.” This will create a layer specifically for captions above your video editing timeline.

This should be empty, as we haven’t created anything yet. The “CC” button will create a new caption track in your timeline. Now select the “Captions” panel within the Text window. This should be right next to Effect Controls and Audio Clip Mixer. Once you have a video that is ready to subtitle, head over to the “Text” panel in your upper left window. The text panel will display caption/subtitle options, as well as options to edit other graphics in your timeline. Luckily for us, Adobe Premiere Pro has made subtitles/captions incredibly easy to incorporate into a video.
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Now that you understand why you’d use captions in your videos, let’s get into how to do insert them. Audiences on these platforms also may be watching without volume and will rely on subtitles to understand what is being played. This is quick, engaging, and frenetic - to match his style of video. Beast video, you’ll notice really quickly that they use a lot of subtitles in their style of editing. Videos with captions get more engagement with their audience. Most recently, subtitles have started to be included in most social media videos on YouTube, Tik Tok, and Instagram as a standard practice. Subtitles will include the translation or clarify what the subject said, in case it wasn’t clear. Secondly, there may be portions of the dialogue that are either in a different language or are just difficult to hear. The primary reason you may be familiar with this is to assist the hearing impaired and ensure they can still understand the action in the video without needing to hear it. There are multiple reasons why subtitles should be included in a video or film. A sample of subtitles from my recent tutorial video about recording high-quality audio. Subtitles can also be referred to as captions. Subtitles usually transcribe what the subjects on screen are saying, word for word, and sometimes they clarify what kind of music or sound effect has been played. Subtitles are a form of text on screen that helps the viewer read what is being said, rather than solely listening to the dialogue.

Let’s walk through the steps on how you can simply add subtitles to your video edit in Adobe Premiere Pro. In today’s social media landscape, ensuring your video contains proper and legible subtitles is a must in order to retain viewers.

In this video tutorial, we’ll cover how to add subtitles to your project in Adobe Premiere Pro.
