Hey everyone.
Alec here with VEED. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to add subtitles in Premiere Pro.
So let's say you have a video and you're editing it within Premiere Pro
and you want to add subtitles to that video.
Well in this video, I'm going to be showing you exactly how to do that.
And here's exactly what we're going to be covering in this video.
First, I'm going to show you how to add subtitles in Premiere Pro.
Then I'm going to show you how to export your subtitles as Open Captions.
So Open Captions are when the subtitles are burned into the video.
Then I'm going to show you how to export your subtitles as Closed Captions.
So this is when you have a separate SRT file so you can toggle them on and off just like on YouTube.
And then at the end, I'm going to be showing you how you can automatically add subtitles to your video with an online video editor called VEED.
So basically we're going to go over the first three steps again
using VEED and show you how you can add subtitles to your video much faster online.
And with that being said, let's get started.
So as you can see here, we're in Premiere Pro and if I press play.
We have my video that I want to add subtitles to.
And to begin adding these subtitles,
all I'm going to do is head over to File, on the top of the screen.
Hover over New and then go down and select Captions.
And now we're prompted with these settings right here.
And what you're going to want to make sure you select in the standard drop down menu is Open Captions at the bottom.
Now, these are all industry standards for subtitles and captions.
However, I'm going to choose Open Captions and I'll tell you why in a second.
So now if I click OK,
as you can see, we have the Captions item that has been added to our project.
So now what I'm going to do is click and drag this into my timeline
and then just click and drag this element to make it the same length as my video because I want captions for the entire length of my video.
So now you can see that if I press play.
For the first few seconds, we have this piece of text that says 'Type Caption Here'.
So now what I need to do is go ahead and open my caption window.
So I can either double click on the element here.
I can click on this arrow and go to Captions.
But if you can't see it, you can go to window on top of the screen and then here just make sure the Captions is activated.
So now as you can see, we're in the captions window and this is where I'm going to type out my first caption.
So what I'm going to do is just listen to the first beat.
This is going to be my first caption.
"Hey everyone. I hope you are all doing great."
So that's my first caption.
Now if I press play.
Okay. So now I need to adjust the timing and to adjust the timing of my caption,
I can either click and drag it directly from within the timeline, so just like so,
or I can just copy and paste the time code of where my player currently is, then just paste it just like this.
So now to add another caption,
we're just going to hit the plus sign right here and it will add a caption and it will begin at the end of the previous one.
So as you can see now if I press play.
So that's my second caption.
"Welcome to the social media podcast."
I'm just going to adjust the timing and then I'm just going to type it out.
"Welcome to the social media podcast."
Okay. So now we have two captions playing back-to-back.
So now you probably understand how to add captions to your video using Premiere Pro and you can understand why this could be quite time consuming.
But before I show you how to add subtitles to your video much faster using VEED,
first, I'm going to show you how to export your video with either Closed Captions or Open Captions.
So before you export a captions, I just want to show you that we can customize the font and the color for captions.
For an example here, I can change the font to Monaco right here.
But I do want to mention that you might want to do this straight from the beginning.
Because now, if If I want to change them for each and every caption,
I don't know any other way of them having to do it manually for each one every time.
So this can be very time consuming.
If you've already added all of your captions and you want to change their styling later.
Now to export a video with this captions, all we're going to do is export it as if we would normally.
So I'm going to go to File, Export and then Media or you can hit Command 'M'.
And now, here you want to make sure you do all the settings as you would normally
and then the only thing you want to make sure you do is head over to the Captions tab right here.
And this is where we can either choose to have them as Closed Captions or Open Captions.
So Closed Captions are captions which are a separate file.
So most likely an SRT file that you can upload along with the video.
For an example, to YouTube so you can toggle them on and off.
To do this, here we're just going to select this drop down menu and we're going to select Create Sidecar File.
Select SubRip Subtitle file
and then we can click on Export and then our video will be exported with two files.
It will have our main video file, so the .mp4
and then the SubRip Subtitle file which is the SRT file which will be our closed captions.
However, if we want to export our captions hard-coded into the video,
all we have to do here, under the Export Options is select the drop-down menu and then click Burn Captions Into Video.
And now you don't have to do anything else except from click on Export at the bottom of your screen
and then you'll only have one MP4 file with the text hard-coded into the MP4 file as if it was part of the video.
So that's how to add subtitles be it Closed Captions or Open Captions to your video in Premiere Pro.
But here's how to do it in a much faster way using VEED.
And one of the reasons why I'm showing you this is because adding captions within Premiere Pro can be very time consuming.
Right there, I was just working with a 15 second clip so it wasn't going to take me too long.
However, if you're working with a five minute video or a 10 minute video or a podcast that can be up to an hour long,
adding captions can take a lot and a lot of time and with VEED, you can add Closed Captions to your video automatically.
So to do this, once we're on VEED,
all we're going to do is create a new project and I do want to mention that the links to VEED are going to be in the description down below.
Once you're on VEED, here we're going to click on Upload the Files
and then I'm jus going to select the same clip that I had in Premiere Pro.
So I'm going to open it and as you can see now it's imported into Premiere Pro and if I click play.
As you can see here we have our video.
So to begin adding subtitles to our video automatically with VEED,
all we have to do is click on the Subtitles tab in the left toolbar
and then here, we're going to click on the Auto Subtitles tool.
If we wanted to add them manually just like we did within Premiere Pro, we can click on Manual Subtitles
and then we can begin adding them just like we did in Premiere Pro one by one after listening to the video and typing it out.
However, here I'm going to select the Auto Subtitles tool
and then we're prompted to choose the language that our video is in.
So VEED can then automatically transcribe all of the audio from our video into text and turn that text into subtitles.
And this is all done thanks to artificial intelligence.
So I select the language. In this video we're speaking in English and then we click on Start
and depending on the length of your video, this could take anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes
to automatically transcribe the audio from your video into text and turn that text into subtitles.
So now as you can see, they have just finished and if we take a look, we can see the subtitles in three different places.
We can see them in the subtitle editor on the left.
We can see them in the timeline and then we can also see them on the video canvas.
So if I go back to the beginning and I press play.
So as we can see, we have our subtitles and they are looking pretty good.
However, I did notice one mistake. Right in the beginning,
it just says "Everyone," instead of "Hey, everyone." But this is because I kind of slur the two words together.
But it's very easy to change this. Just like in Premiere Pro,
first of all, I'm going to click and drag this out to change the length of the caption
and then in the subtitle editor, I'm just going to quickly edit this as if it was text anywhere else, again, very similar to how it's done in Premiere Pro.
So now I have "Hey everyone."
So now if I play it.
Okay, so this is perfect.
So now that I've added the subtitles within VEED, what I'm going to do is actually change the style of the subtitles.
Because unlike in Premiere Pro, if I change the style for one,
let's say I change the font to Anton.
Now, all of these subtitles adopt the same style.
So if I wanted to make this smaller,
as you can see, they now are all smaller and then I can click and drag and place them anywhere I want on the video canvas
and they will all adapt to the same position and transformation.
And then once you're happy with your subtitles, there's two options we can do. Again, we can either export them as closed captions.
So a separate SRT file
and to do this, we're just going to head into the Options tab right here
and then we can download our subtitles. So we can choose to download them as an SRT, a VTT, or a .TXT format.
And then you want the SRT which is SubRip Subtitle file and just click download
and as you can see they're now downloaded to our computer.
However, if you want them hard-coded into the video just like we did in Premiere Pro at the end, so burnt in open captions.
all we're going to do is click on Export in the top right.
VEED then starts to render your video.
And once it's finished rendering, you can then preview it with its captions burnt into the video and go ahead and then download it.
And that is how to add subtitles to your video using Premiere Pro or VEED's automatic subtitle tool.
Now before I end this video, I do want to mention that VEED isn't a hundred percent free.
We do have a free plan that allows you to try out the tool and to try out the automatic subtitle tool.
However, if you're going to be working with one hour long video projects and you're adding subtitles to hours of video,
you do then have to pay for a monthly plan.
And again, the links are going to be in the description down below for you to check everything out.
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