About captions

Captions and subtitles add value to videos, making them more accessible to more people – and helping to drive viewer engagement.

Premiere Pro provides a comprehensive toolset that lets you create, edit, stylize, and export captions and subtitles in all supported formats.

Start by creating a transcript of your video using Speech-to-Text. Edit the transcript and then create captions that are added as a separate caption track in the timeline. There, you can adjust them like any other media using the editing tools.

Edit the text in the Text panel or right on-screen in the Program Monitor. Style captions using the design tools in the Essential Graphics panel.

When your video is ready, you can export the captions as stylized, burned-in subtitles, a .srt sidecar text file, or embedded in a QuickTime or MXF file.

When to add captions?

Usually, it’s best to add captions when your edit is finished or close to finished. You can fine-tune and edit along with a caption track.

However, if you delete caption segments, you'll need to recreate them manually if you need to restore a part of a clip to your final edit.

The Captions and Graphics workspace

To access the Captions and Graphics workspace, select Workspaces > Captions and Graphics.