How to Caption Videos for Social Media in Premiere Pro

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ABOUT THIS TUTORIAL
In this Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial, I show you how to create captions in Premiere Pro for social video. Do you need to add captions to your Instagram reels? or TikToks or Facebook (if you use it)? Or Twitter (is a whole other story!) But the same methods apply in this video! Timecoded chapters below.
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TIMECODE CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:25 The workspace
0:40 Transcription
1:33 Create Captions
3:00 How to Edit Captions
3:40 Why Envato Elements is awesome?
5:20 Fill Per Line
6:28 Changing Font & Size
7:10 Adjusting appearance
8:05 How to save a style
8:51 How to Export a Caption style
9:25 Future of captions
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[@PremiereGal]

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[@The_Daliban]

It has changed🎉 Select the captions you created in the timeline, to Graphics and titles and then klick upgrade captions to graphic. Done🎉👍🏻

[@candrasilaban2646]

​.. ❤Utara u

[@candrasilaban2646]

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[@JordanCann]

If anyone ran into the issue of exporting the video and the captions are absent on the final video don't forget to change the caption option to "burn into video" in the export settings

[@ghoulishjoe]

So you're telling me I didn't have to manually make a text layer every few seconds 😭😭😭

[@aslanov2001]

🤣

[@PremiereGal]

😂 in short, yes!!! 🎉

[@rogertduncan]

Have been using this for a while now with my reels. Love it! A lot better than what they were using years ago. Hoping that we will be able to use effects and transitions on captions in the near future.

[@PremiereGal]

I hope so too!

[@napynap]

Finally had a video to try this out on. Interviewed a bunch of different people in short clips. Some of the transcriptions are funny, so I'm having a laugh while fixing them. It does a great job making all of those clips, so that alone is saving me sooo much time! Thank you for this video Gal!

[@tonyfelgueiras900]

As always another clear, to the point and informative video!

[@mertinanc]

definitely one of the best youtube videos i have ever watched about captions - thank you so much 🎉

[@markdjolly]

Fantastic. Love your way of teaching, so deeply appreciated.

[@imexploration]

Thanks for the video, just the advice I was looking for! Great timing, Cheers!

[@RacetasClub]

Great tutorial, gonna be a huge time-saver, instant like :)

[@scottnra]

This was extremely helpful! Thanks for making it.

[@Cineinsaner]

love you premiere gal.. the way you show me every thing is so good..

[@winr16]

Love your content Premiere Gal! So very well explained and fun to watch. Thank you 🙂

[@PremiereGal]

Thank you Erwin! 😁

[@GenealogyTV]

You rock. Thanks. This saved me a ton of time.

[@CJFay]

Incredible Thanks so much! All of your content is always so helpful and informative not to mention fun to watch!

[@brucehoover5140]

I am SOOOO GLAD I found this video! Well, and you. Thank you for all you do! This is amazing!

[@wowfactorytv]

Great tutorial. Love it! Thank you!

[@IndiaDelgado]

Great explanation. I use FCPX but watching you explain this made me want go try out Adobe Priemere

[@TerryRajsombath]

🔥🔥🔥 Thanks, Premiere Gal!

[@SwishaG]

you have the best premier tutorials! i have learned so much from you.

[@thecluuchannel4705]

AGAIN, you have just saved me hours, Gal. Thanks a bunch!!!

[@oTheSolidEcho]

As a small time video editor your videos always help me out! Thank you so much!

[@ericahernandez1778]

You are amazing! Thanks for this tutorial!

[@provisualstock]

Very useful! Thanks for sharing!🙂🌞👋

[@keithsummers_]

This is great! Thanks, Kelsey!

[@fVirk_Official]

wow. Gal you are awesome teacher. I love to learn from you. Thank you so much for teaching us all.

[@CalvinCreates]

Life saver, great as always!!

[@user-zo5hh9dj6v]

This video helped me out quite a bit. Thank you for making it.

[@alicjasuska8360]

As always, super halpful! Thank you

[@alladventurecapitol]

💯 Extremely Helpful. Thank you so much for this 🙏

[@jameliamcgee975]

thank you! this was helpful!!!

[@TimMillaway]

Thanks Kelsey This was very helpful

[@igalbensabatlevi]

the beginning of your intro music really reminds me one my favorite series's intro music...Californication...love it

[@_anthonypierre_]

Awesome video! thank you!

[@abdulsidik]

Thank you for the many valuable lessons from the video on how to make captions in Premiere Pro, especially for those who are still learning. Once again, thank you...

[@krisannasexton1353]

this was so helpful, thank you!

[@tj81090]

Thank you!! U r a life saver

[@danielamijares4766]

Love it!

[@kristinalumin]

Thanks a lot, very helpful!

[@DajaeWilliams]

Thank you!!!

[@Tacocide]

you are a life saver!!!

[@MarkandSandieInMotion]

Very cool!!

[@chadiwack]

Okay it's official, with this video... I think I love you. lol. THANK YOU!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!!

[@BangerSoundtracks]

This is awesome. I'm wondering if you know how to do the style of captioning in reels and shorts where the words pop in stacked in different sizes? I could always do this by animating different text boxes but is there a way of doing that with captioning? I could look elsewhere for the answer but I prefer your Galsplinations 😁

[@carbon_originals]

Super helpful!!!

[@BlckSpkz]

You're so amazing! I've learned so much from watching your videos!

[@aperture-media]

Thanks so much, @PremiereGal Your quick help video on CC really helped me get one of our videos completed......

[@aceandymirza]

Thank you for the info.

[@videowizard_io]

This is great, thanks @Premiere Gal for the walkthrough. Love the direction Adobe is going with these features, but I do have some suggestions: 1. re: text background drawing. Reels and tikok draw ONE background shape around the perimeter of all lines. all one consistently curved and connected shape. The "per-line" + padding technique demonstrated by Premire Gal here is good, and very close! But, it's still a workaround. would be good to get the real thing from Adobe as a formal setting. 2. Word-by-word captioning. the ability to caption based on number of words not just number of characters. This is a very popular fast-paced captioning style. 3. Font / styling consideration on caption generation. Notice how ​@Premiere Gal set captions to cover 2 lines, yet several of them appear in 3, which she then had to go in and manually adjust. This is because Premiere calculates caption-length in isolation from true pixel-width of rendered text. For true pixel length accuracy, you must take into consideration font and styling. Why not do this by default? instead of characters per line, maybe it's "% of frame-width per line." 4. access to per-word timecode data. The fact that clicking a word in the transcription jumps the playhead to that point in the timeline perfectly tells you that per-word timecode data is indeed captured by Premiere! But you can't actually access it as an end user. "Export to CSV" gives you timecoded BLOCKS of text. This one may be in the weeds, but for advanced scripting and automation purposes, having access to frame-accurate, per-word transcription timecode would be very powerful. If you agree with any of these, I also added them to an "idea" post on the community forum. Upvoting may help it get to the product team. community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/4-requests-for-the-captioning-and-transcription-features-in-premiere/idi-p/13364705

[@PremiereGal]

Agree with all of these! As for 4. You can export the captions as a .srt file with time code data, if that will work in the interim? Is that what you meant by time code? :) Love these insights. This is exactly the type of suggestions we should be giving. Really great stuff 🎉

[@videowizard_io]

@@PremiereGal Re: 4, really just having access to ALL the data premiere generates when you click transcribe, which would include exact in / out timecode for each word in the transcription. Practically speaking, this would just be a more detailed csv, or json file. Like I said, it may be a bit niche, but useful for scripting.

[@truckingpix]

thanks Gal you're the best teacher

[@RayChavez]

Gonna use this for my YT channel! Thank you.

[@aaquibahmed7308]

You are amazing and fabulous. Thanks for sharing very important and useful tutorial 🙂🌹

[@ForeverLovee]

Hi, I was looking for that style you shown in the beginning. Can you please make a video on it?

[@RoddieSimmons]

WoW Simply The Best! Better Than All The Rest!😎

[@bjovanovicc]

Awesome video, so much value! I finally changed my text layer preferences to Per-Line 🤡😂

[@atifsohail6949]

Hmmmzzzzzz thnx Gal..... For this tutorials

[@aliensuperstar634]

THANK YOUUU

[@transversalfilms]

Hi Gal! Your videos are the best!!! Please can you explain, if don´t did before.. an video about the each subtitles and captions and the correct way of do it.

[@liviere1]

By faaaarrrrr you are my Sensei!!! thank you so much for your teachings and how you make them soooooo easyyyyyyy!!!! 🥰🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@PremiereGal]

It's my pleasure

[@BackgroundStock]

Hey Friend Please help me out for... Can we add top and bottom subtitle & exporting SRT

[@georgeteynor2892]

Excellent video

[@nimrajamil9484]

Thanks for this amazing video i thought you would teach the caption style you used at the starting of the video

[@seance0]

Hi i have a doubt regarding premiere pro codec. Apple quick time player is already installed in my pc. Can you suggest any other codecs software for premiere pro like alternative for quick time player

[@fromtaylor_]

Thank you 🙏🏿

[@trung.candidphoto]

Thanks for the informative video. I have a problem with The Text layer preferences. I haved chosen "per-line" like you instructed but the result stayed the same with the caption. it only work for the text layer which was created by the Type Tool (T). Please help. Many thanks.

[@mysterwhymedia]

This was so helpful! Thanks again, Kelsey. One question: I tried to set up two different pre-sets so that the font color would change for a video in which two different characters are talking, but Premiere didn't seem to like the idea of using two pre-sets at once. For now, I went through and manually changed the font color for the second character, but I was wondering if there might be some setting with the pre-sets that I maybe was not aware of that would have allowed for this to be done in a more time efficient way. If you happen to have any insight into that, I'm all ears.

[@mysterwhymedia]

I think I may have found the answer to my own question. When first navigating from Text to Create Transcript, there is the option to set up Speaker Labeling to accommodate multiple speakers. The video I am editing at the moment does not have multiple speakers, so I will not be testing this out right now, but I hope that is the solution to the problem I mentioned earlier.

[@HBrownFilm]

Looking for advice! - I created captions and I want to edit my video and lock the captions to the footage, but be able to cut and move the video clips around - keeping the caption locked to the video. Does it make sense? Is there a way to do this? Thank you for your help. As a note, I am working with subtitling in another language, so now that I have the translation, I want to be able to move the clips around.

[@catroy210]

Question: I edited the captions for my video, but now it doesn't match the content in my transcript. Is there an EASY way to sync those? I am working PP2023, and I have the latest Beta. Thanks in advance!

[@ThePrinceAJShow]

Thank you! My Daddy is learning how to do this for my KZbin Channel! 🙂

[@CapsLockKeyon]

Hey! I wanted to ask you - I'm always really weary of updating Premiere to the latest version. In your experience, is it worth updating just yet? I'm still running 2022 and I know the newer version recently dropped. I just need the thing stable to do my work which is why I worry XD (also not sure if it changes anything, Im using Windows 10 64bit. I know a lot of the editors I follow tend to use Mac so I figured I'd add that)

[@PremiereGal]

Hey! So I’m still on 22.6, for some reason 23 won’t open for me (I’m on a Mac), I haven’t had the chance yet to reach out to Adobe to figure out what might be the case. But my two other editors on my team 1 on Windows and the other on Mac are both on 23.0 with no problems. Remember you can update and if it’s not working well, you can always revert back to 22.6, you can also keep 22.6 on your computer and have 23 at the same time.

[@MasumsLanguageITZone]

Hi @PremiereGal, I can embed CEA 608 into a video but can't do it with CEA 708. Would you pleaser make a video on this topic?

[@mediaapps]

Thank you ....... again.

[@chrismcnish]

Love your videos!! Can you have the background color per word instead of per line? The captions app makes the background follow per word. I wish premiere could do that.

[@TheEdgeTreatmentCenter]

but how did you create the captions that you used at the beginning of the video?

[@loraj4712]

Has anyone been able to save a style where it retains the ALL CAPS option? Whenever I save it with it on, it transcribes it with upper lower, although the correct font and size.

[@andrewstahelin2220]

Do you have a video on being able to create that live transcription style of CCs that Instagram has as a preset option? Or would this require after effects?

[@vdweck1]

Can this be done / do you have a techinque for if we import captions?

[@sykoblk24b]

hello ive been trying to find out how you edit the substitles how you had it on the beginning of the video where it would get highlighted in yellow as you spoke the word

[@ariadnacorzo4732]

you just saved my job today!

[@sabatinisfilm7247]

Hello, I have a question please : do I have to be connected to internet to be able to do the captation ?

[@dpontv2707]

Nice super ❤👍👍👌💛

[@achimschneider1937]

Hi, thanks for your videos. They are really helpful. I have the problem that I don't have the option to import a translated transcript as a text file in a new project. The menue is deactivated. But in other projects it works. I couldn't figure out what I've done differently. But I'm at the very beginning with Adobe.

[@bernoGarcia]

Great video. My problem is you can't animate captions like you would when you write into the picture. To applay for example pop up animation. Any solution to "transform" the subtitles to graphics?

[@sophiebero4716]

There is a new update (released early Jan/ late Dec) that allows you to highlight your captions > go-to graphics and titles> select upgrade caption to graphic :)

[@AntrophosFilm]

You are the best

[@noosovgb]

thanks for all your videos. would you help me on exporting closed captions in MCC Format. i'm using Premiere Pro 24.3.0..

[@guyjinpop]

Hey Prem Gal. Great update vid. Was wondering since you have a closer relationship with Adobe team to perhaps leverage the fact of text styles to be applicable as a drag and drop which live in Libraries which can be shared much faster rather than have it live clunky in a premiere project bin. We currently have our captions settings options with x15 pre-sets. That stays hidden within the project bin as a template project which editors can duplicate from. However this becomes major pain if some point down the line some changes are required you have to update those respective projects with those settings. This would be eradicated if we made text styles as library files to push any updates across the cloud and people just have to drag and drop text style to override track settings

[@PremiereGal]

I like the suggestion. For now, you can export the style from the project panel (by right clicking on the style) and you can save it to your library so other team members can access. I’m sure others have suggested it. 👍

[@johnclay7644]

informative 10mins.

[@Raidoven]

What I'd love to see is if there's a way to indicate where you want the text to be separated before converting the transcript into captions. Does anyone know if it's currently possible to do this?

[@geraldmixer]

Great video thanks. One question: when I export the video the captions are not showing up What am I missing?

[@slevinshafel9395]

can we use kinetic title for the subtitles? that will be awsome.

[@Thatsmessedupman]

So how do you get back to adjust the maximum letters or gaps. You mentioned you can get back to that but I'm not finding how you can go back.

[@bakhrom_tursunov]

Can you talk to the Adobe team and ask if they can implement the effect, where each word will be highlighted as you speak? I guess most us already saw this text styling on Instagram/Tik-Tok videos. Thanks for you videos, Gal.

[@PremiereGal]

There are apps that can do that on your phone right now. But I hope we can make a script that can do this in Ae or Pr, I'll investigate. In the meantime, I'm sure Adobe is seeing comments like this :)

[@motionsoldier9601]

@@PremiereGal can you share about apps? I want to create videos like that

[@keithsummers_]

I think Descript does this function.

[@motionsoldier9601]

@@keithsummers_ wow Thansk man. I found what I was looking for.

[@user-cc9ng1in7e]

Awesome

[@Jaa_morant]

Can we do brush stroke reveal somehow in Adobe premier?

[@bernoGarcia]

how do I apply the background to only one line though?

[@alimanzoor9689]

Thanks mam,

[@JakeKnowsNothing]

The amount of times i yelled "this is amazing" at my TV just now is astounding. Thank you for saving my sanity.

[@PremiereGal]

haha 🎉

[@tonshareswithyou5987]

I am looking your video showing how to convert English to difference languages and if you don't have it, can you make one please?. I also want to get rid of the existing caption and replace it with different language into the video. Thank you!

[@LADOT2012]

YOU are DOPE!!!

[@joelmbuthi6487]

Thanks @Premiere Gal...Actually you can animate the captions by converting them to be like Graphics and that will allow you to add animations like it was before...

[@PremiereGal]

Yep that was added after I made this video 😂