Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to use the new
captions workspace in Adobe Premiere Pro to add captions to your videos. I actually just learned
this in our Kansas City Adobe video group, so I just wanted to give a shout out to them, they do
a great job! All right, let's get started. Okay, I'm going to open a project here in Premiere Pro,
and I do want to say you need to have Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 or newer for this
tutorial to work for you. This new version has a Captions workspace that is brand new to Premiere.
So the first thing we'll need to do is to get an SRT file, and to do that, we're going to have to
export this. So I'm going to come up here to the Quick Export button right up here in the corner.
I'll just click that, and it'll ask me where I want to save it,
so I'll choose a place to save it and then click Save. Then, the preset, I'm just going to leave
this alone and I'll hit Export. It will take some time, of course, and to get our SRT file,
we're going to have to put this on YouTube. Now if you don't have a YouTube channel,
it actually comes free with your Gmail account - so you probably actually do have one, you just
don't know about it. So if you don't have a Gmail account, you can sign up for that, and it's free,
which will give you your YouTube channel, which is also free. So anyway, when you upload your video,
you can just set it to like Unlisted or Private, and you don't actually have to publish it publicly
to get this to work. So anyway, I'm going to come out here to Gmail. Okay, now once you're in your
Gmail, just come up here to these nine dots and click that and then choose YouTube. Then I'll
come up here to Create, Upload Video, and we'll choose Get Started. I'm going to create a channel,
and now it's going to ask me to fill all this information. I'll just set it up later.
Now I can finally upload my video. So I'll click this button, and I'm just going to click off to
the side here, then I'll pull my video on to this area. Now whenever you do this, you don't
actually have to fill out any of the information. You will have to say that is not for kids, which
is right here, and then down here at the bottom to show more, and here's where you'll want to put in
the language of your video. And then we can go on to Next, I'm going to choose Next again,
and if you're at this point, and your video hasn't completely processed, it'll make you wait for
that. We'll go to Next, and then I'm going to choose Unlisted and Save. And now the video is
published as Unlisted, so we'll close this. Now at this point, you'll have to wait until your
subtitles show up. It can take YouTube quite a bit of time to actually read through your entire video
and create captions for you. Sometimes they can take just like 30 minutes, I've had to take hours
before, so...hopefully it won't take that long for you. But if you need them faster than that,
you can go to another site - Otter.ai - that's O T T E R - and set up a free account there.
I think you can only upload three audio files though before they want you to pay for Premium.
So the next step is to come down to subtitles, and we'll click this. And if they're complete,
they'll be right over here under Subtitles. Here's the video that actually has them
completed and published. So I'm going to come over here to these three little dots and choose
Download, and then I'll choose the SRT file. It'll come right down here to the lower left.
That's if you're on Chrome. If you're on some other site like Safari or something it might be
up here. I'm going to click on this little caret and choose Show in Finder. And that should take me
out to my Downloads. So we have our Captions.srt. All right, let's go back to Premiere, and now I'm
going to come up here to the top to this new Captions workspace. You can also get there by
going to Window > Workspaces and > Captions right here. Now we'll come over here to this
second button, the Import Captions from File. And now we can choose our SRT file, and we'll import
this. When we do that, we get a dialog box that gives us some options. Here we'll want Subtitle,
and we'll want to use the source timecode. So I'll say OK, and when I do that, we get an extra
track right up here that has the subtitles and all the places that they've been cut.
So if we scrub through, you can see that that one starts and stops here, and then the next one
comes on the screen. Now since this is coming from YouTube, they're not perfect captions, so
you'll want to come in here and just double click to edit. Now if you want this section and this
section to be on the screen at the same time, you can actually do that. You can just select this one
over here on the timecode part and then hold Shift and select another one and then come up here and
merge the segments...so now it's all on the screen at once. So you can merge them with this button
and then split them out if you want over here with this button. Now the cool thing about this
Captions workspace is we can actually change our font size, we can change where on the screen
it is, the color of the shadow, all that stuff. So still in the Captions workspace, I'm going to come
over here to the Essential graphics and choose Edit, and now we have a lot of different options:
we can right justify center, we can make it all caps if we want, and then we have this Align and
Transform grid. Right now the captions will be in the center at the bottom. If we put it up here,
there'll be right up there, we can change our fill color, maybe we'll make them green,
and I'm going to increase the size. And then there are some options down here for
the shadow. So you could change the opacity of the shadow, the angle, how it is offsets,
and a couple other things. Once you have your captions the way you like them, you're going to
want to save a style, and that is right up here. So we can just click here and choose Create Style,
and I'm going to call this one 'Green.' And now this style will automatically be applied
to all the subtitles in the whole document. Now when you change your style, you should be able to
choose your new style, and then click this arrow to push this to all the captions on the track.
But today, for me, for some reason, that's not working - but I wanted you to be aware of it. So
there are two types of captions: open and closed. Open captions are kind of burned onto the screen,
and these are going to be good if you're putting it on a platform that doesn't offer
closed captions, or if you have some other reason that you want the captions to actually travel
with this and not be able to come off easily. And then there's the normal closed captions,
which basically will give you a sidecar file that you'll need to upload with your video. And both
options are offered to us, so if we come up here to File > Export Media, we'll go to the Captions
tab right here. Now if you choose this and burn the captions into the video, they are going to
be very hard to remove if you ever needed to do that - they are going to always be on the video.
So I usually don't do it this way. I usually do the Create Sidecar file. And that's going
to export another SRT file with all the changes we made. So then we just go to Export. And of course,
before you do all this, you'll need to have set your In and Out point and rendered your sequence
and all that stuff. But really, when you're putting captions on, you should be doing it
at the very end after everything's cut nicely and all that. So then we would just go to Export and
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