Today Adobe released a brand new captioning workflow inside of
Premiere Pro let's go ahead and take a look to see how it works
Hey everyone Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. Today if you update to the latest version
of Premiere Pro 15.0 from Adobe creative cloud you will now see that the captioning panel is gone
there is a brand new captioning workflow that allows you to edit and create captions using
the text panel there's now a track dedicated to captions in the timeline so you can treat
your captions like video clips you can select them and stylize them inside of the essential graphics
panel which is so much better than the previous workflow and of course you can see a preview of
your captions as you stylize them from the program monitor so this caption workflow has been tested
in the public beta and now it's available in version 15.0 i recommend finishing the project
that you're currently working on before you update to 15.0 it's just a good practice to
have as video editors because you don't want to mix up the different versions when you're
working on a current project so what's the outline for this tutorial first i'm going to show you how
to create the captions and there's many different ways that you can do it so i'll go through each
different one and of course i will talk about the status of the speech to text program and
how you can get involved with the transcription inside of premiere pro it's not yet available yet
but we'll talk about that and then i'll show you how to edit the captions stylize them and finally
how to export it and also save the captions as a .srt file that you can attach to videos but i'll
be showing you the difference between a burn-in caption and a closed captioning file so per usual
the time codes are just down below so if you want to click around to review or you can always pause
to slow it down take it slow all right let's go ahead and jump on in captions when to create them
right now for all of social media if you're making videos for instagram tick tock facebook
all of those i would recommend to have burned in captions when people are talking it just makes it
more accessible so that way if people are you know late at night they don't want to wake up somebody
they don't want to use headphones they can read your video and understand what's happening without
having the volume on and it makes it accessible to people that are differently abled so definitely
make sure to consider doing the burned in captions on youtube however it's a little bit different
most people have the sound on and this is why i recommend just uploading a captioning file or
just editing the built-in captions so you have the cc and the only difference between burned-in and
closed captions is the burned-in you can't remove right and closed captions the way i remember it is
that you can close them closed captions you don't have to have them open all the time so youtube
closed captions other social media platforms i recommend burning it in and so when do you make
the captions i recommend waiting until you finish your video edit to add the captions because if you
make changes later on you have to go and manually change all the captions so wait just before export
to add your captioning track so now let's go into how to create them creating captions first make
sure that you're in the captions workspace by clicking on the captions button here at the top
of the premiere pro window this will pull up the text panel on the left and from here you're given
three different options to create captions the first option is transcribe the sequence which
right now is only available to the closed beta for the speech-to-text users and essentially what
it does it'll auto-transcribe your sequence for you or a particular audio track in your sequence
and then you can use that as a starting point to edit from now adobe says that they plan to release
the speech to text to the public later this year I don't know when yet but you can definitely find
out more about how to apply to the speech to text program by clicking up above you can click on the
card i made a full video already on how it works and the second way here is to create your own
captions manually where you can go through and manually type them out so to show how this manual
captioning track works i've created a sample video project just a little 15 second video my voiceover
and i use some stock video clips music and sound effects and all of those effects and assets in
this video are from videvo and videvo what's great about it is they have thousands of free
assets that you can download in using any project that you want each asset that you find there
it actually shows you the licensing details so you can see what it's safe to use for and
more often than not all of them are safe for youtube for any type of platform that you're
looking to create for so it's really creator friendly and if you want access to the premium
assets you can sign up for one of their premium plans and vidivo they set up a code for you gal
15 to get 15 off any of those plans you can choose from so thank you videvo for setting that up and
providing the footage you can download the sample project file to caption along with me so you can
check that out in the description box below so if you go to the manual route here i recommend
using the subtitle format as this is typically used for burning captions into your video which
is also known as open captions so i wouldn't worry about the rest of the different closed captioning
options here the different formats because those are very specific they're not for social media if
you ever want to know what they are you can always just google it and find out what it's used for
so now here you can just click up here to create a new segment and then you can manually type
out what is spoken so you'll listen back to the video and manually type it out and you'll see that
it makes a captioning track in the timeline and here's where you can move the captions into place
and it will update the timing inside of the text panel when you move the captioning clips which is
super useful and once you make your captions and you're completely done if you want to save it as a
srt file so you can attach it to your youtube or facebook videos just select the ellipsis here
and export as a dot srt so manually creating the captions takes a lot of time you have to
watch back the video and manually type it in well if you don't have access to the speech
speech-to-text program that will auto-transcribe your captions for you how do you then import
a caption file import a dot srt file from which you can stylize and burn them into the video so
a quick hack that you can use is using facebook so facebook has really really fast auto-generated
captions that are pretty accurate it does require a little bit of tweaking but it saves
you time because you don't have to manually type it out right so first of all let's go back to the
manual track that we created let's right click on it and let's delete it you'll also see some
other options here where you can actually add another track so if you want to have
translated captions on top of english captions let's say you can have two captioning tracks at
once which is super useful but for now let's go ahead and delete the manual track once the
captioning track is deleted what you're going to do is just export a clean.mp4 file without any
captions or anything so once it's exported as its own mp4 file you're going to upload it to facebook
don't worry you don't have to publish it all we're going to do is go to the captioning tab and then
select auto generate the captions and facebook will listen to your video and convert your voice
to text and then you'll probably have to go in and make a few edits because it's not perfect
and then once facebook has processed the video you can then download the dot srt file if you
don't want to go the free route let's say it's a really long video and maybe you don't want to use
facebook or youtube there's actual services out there like rev.com where you can pay per minute
a human to actually transcribe and create the captions for you and uh you know it's pretty
decently priced i think it's like a dollar 25 per minute there's also translation services but there
is a 24 hour turnaround time sometimes even longer so keep that in mind that's another way of getting
the dot srt file so once you have the dot srt file let's go ahead and go back into premiere pro
so here let's go ahead and select import captions from file then from format select subtitle
the style section let's leave that for now i'll cover that in just a minute
and for the start let's select the timeline start and once it's imported you'll see that there's
now a captioning track with all the captions there you can always select all the captions and
move them to line them up better with the voice let's say it didn't perfectly match
if you need to make any changes to the captions just double click on the captioning segment from
the text panel and you can edit it there by typing in new text so now that the captions are imported
now it's the fun part where you can stylize it to your brand it doesn't have to be the generic
default helvetica text it can be anything that you want so let me show you how that works select
the first caption and then you can go up to the essential graphics panel and customize the font
the font size you can use any of the controls that are here to change the alignment
or update the faux styles like if you want to make it bold or italic or something like that
then underneath a line i like to use the position controls here to change the alignment in the
window in the program panel down below you also have the option to change the color of the text
add a stroke background or a shadow by default it has a stroke i'm going to remove that and add
a background and increase the opacity so it's more visible against the video and now here is
the awesome part you don't have to go and repeat this process for every different captioning clip
instead you can save this as a style and the style is automatically applied to the full captioning
track which saves you so much time before this wasn't available in the old captioning workflow
and you can remove this style at any time just by going to the project panel
and deleting this style file or you can right click on the style file style file sounds cool
and you can export it to share it with someone else or save it on your own drive for future use
and then if you need to adjust the timings a little bit more i recommend using the rolling
edit tool if you press n on your keyboard you can simply move the cut point between two of
the captioning segments to easily adjust that cup point to an earlier time or a later time of course
you can always click and move them in any place that you want and then we're good to go to export
for exporting there's a couple different options if you don't want to burn them in you can go
to the ellipsis from the text panel and just export the dot srt file as a captioning file or
you can go up to file export media and then from the new window you can go to the captions tab
and here you can choose to burn it into the video or create a sidecar file and sidecar file is just
another way to export a dot srt file i'm going to choose to burn it into the video and then i'm
going to export it and here is the final exported video with my voiceover and the clips from
vidibo captions the way i like to think of it is reading sound with your eyes and not your ears
and it makes it accessible let's take a look at the new captioning workflow
in premiere pro premieregal.com captions i think we can all agree that this captioning update is
going to save us a ton of time with creating our own burned-in captions for social video and the
same technique will apply to both landscape video like i demonstrated as well as vertical or square
or any type of aspect ratio that you're working in inside of premiere pro once again a huge shout
out to vid evo for supporting today's video and providing the clips if you're looking for free
assets they have a great selection to choose from and if you want to go premium you can always use
my code gal15 to get 15 off and now let's go ahead and take a look at this week's product of the week
so this week's product of the week is the trio max by mobile pixels they sent this to me it is a dual
extension monitor for laptops so if you're working on the go or working from home on a limited space
editing or doing design stuff you can attach this as a landscape mode or portrait mode
or you can use it as its own monitor to just have a better workflow so if you're doing captions
you can set this up on your laptop and you can see the captions on the side and it will improve your
workflow because you just have more space i like editing sometimes from my laptop but sometimes
i get hunched over and i'm kind of looking at this one screen there's not enough space
it's a great option to use this external monitor it's super handy and right now mobile pixels just
launched a new kickstarter campaign for their duex pro and duex lite so i've put a link in the
description to check out this external monitor trio max it's 14 inches as well as their other
kickstarter campaigns so thank you mobilepixels for sending this to me i appreciate it
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