Adding subtitles like this in Premiere Pro is now super easy and way faster
because now you can convert your captions to graphic text layers in one click
and I'm going to show you how you can quickly add these to your entire video
while getting Premiere Pro to do most of the work for you.
Okay, so I've got my video here that I've finished editing
and the only thing I haven't added to it are these flashy subtitles.
No problem.
Go up to your text panel and if you can't find it, go up to window text.
And from there, we're just going to hit create transcription.
You'll get a bunch of settings you can play around with.
But the most important thing is to set your language, to listen
for the one that you're speaking, which in my case is English.
If you have multiple different people speaking Premiere can separate those
for you and listen for different voices and assign them labels.
But in my case it's just me.
So I'll click: ‘Don't separate speakers’ and this process will happen a bit faster.
Finally, you can tell it to listen for audio clips that you've tagged as dialogue
through the Essential Sound panel.
But I prefer having dedicated audio tracks for my speaking sections.
And to keep those all on the same track.
For me, this is audio track number one, so I can ask it to only look there
so it doesn't get confused with music
or sound effects I have playing throughout the video.
If you're analyzing audio where you have difficulty
isolating the audio on a single track, you can also tell it to listen
to the whole mix, but it will tend to be less accurate
if you have a lot of competing noise.
And finally can tell it to only transcribe the region inside of your in to out
points, you just need to actually set an in and an out point for this to work.
If you leave this unselected, it will transcribe literally
your whole sequence regardless of where the footage is located.
Okay, so let's transcribe
and Premiere Pro will get to work transcribing the whole video.
And for me, this only took about 40 seconds to do a seven minute video.
Pretty awesome. And it was ridiculously accurate.
It even gets names capitalized correctly, like Chat GPT for example.
So cool.
Take a moment and read this over and make sure that it transcribed everything
correctly by double clicking on a section to edit it like a text document.
And once you do you can get to the fun part,
which is turning them into subtitles.
Hit the button here that says CC to create captions
and you'll have a box pop up where you can start to enter some details.
Dropdown this menu here and you can get a lot more settings.
Format Subtitle is fine and normally here we’d choose our layer
style to make sure that our subtitles all look to our liking from the start.
But if you don't, that's okay.
I have a super awesome workaround that I bet you didn't know about.
So stay tuned to the very end and I'll show you.
Next you can choose
the number of characters visible in your text chunk at any given time,
as well as the minimum duration that each text section will be visible.
This just impacts how Premiere Pro breaks them up into different sections.
I like making these durations as short as possible
and you can also choose
if you want to have gaps, if any, between each of your captions.
You can also choose
if you want, only a single line of text or for it to have two lines.
Okay.
You're ready to hit create captions and Premiere Pro
will quickly create your text and it literally happens just that fast.
But there is a small problem.
I don't have a style to start with, so my text looks terrible and I can't add
effects or transitions or anything to it because they're captions.
Not real text layers.
But here's the cool part.
Premiere Pro just updated to give you the ability
to turn these into normal graphic text boxes and all you have to do
is highlight your captions, go up to graphics and titles
and select upgrade caption to graphic and boom.
Now they're ready to use with transitions
and effects, giving you full control over them.
I've been waiting over a year for this feature to come out,
but that isn't even the best part.
Now to style them all the same way, we could just take this one section
and go up to Essential Graphics and style it the way we want.
I'm going to change the font the size, add a drop shadow
and make sure that they're big and positioned closer to the bottom.
Perfect.
But now we can save it as a style here by hitting this dropdown and selecting
create style.
Name whatever you want, and now you should notice
that it actually appears also in your project panel.
And here's the coolest part.
Now you can highlight all of your remaining text and drag
and drop this layer style over top of all of the rest of your text.
And now all of your text looks like this.
And to put the cherry on top.
I downloaded these bounce transitions from Motion Array and now I can highlight
all of my text and add an animation to them all
at the same time just by dragging and dropping once.
Now all my text has animation without having to do almost any work.
I love it and I've left the link to that preset in the description below.
Honestly, it's been a game changer and if you guys found this video helpful,
check out this one
where I walk you through how to get five unique text effects in no time.
I'll see you over there.