Premiere Pro Guru: Closed and Open Caption Workflows

Use Adobe Premiere Pro in your captioning workflow. Learn how to create and time closed captions, open captions, transcripts, and more. See how to export with embedded captions.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding Closed Captioning

• Why caption video?
• What are closed captions?
• What are open captions?

2. Transcriptions

• Common transcription services
• Self-captioning
• Using YouTube to time out verbatim scripts or create captions from scratch

3. Creating and Formatting Closed Caption Tracks

• Importing and viewing captions
• Navigating the Premiere Pro Caption panel
• Adjusting caption timing and deleting captions
• Creating a caption track from scratch
• Formatting captions
• Changing the caption format (608, 708, and open captions)
• Formatting open captions

4. Using the Transcriptive Plugin to Create Subtitles

• Transcriptive explained
• Sending a sequence to Transcriptive
• Sending out interview clips to Transcriptive
• Checking and editing transcripts
• Editing interviews with embedded speech metadata in Premiere Pro
• Creating a caption track from a Transcriptive transcript

5. Exporting

• Exporting the closed caption track
• Exporting media with embedded captions
• Exporting media with sidecar files
• Open caption export

Conclusion

• Summary