Captions overview

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how the captions and subtitles in Adobe Premiere Pro help make your videos more accessible and engaging. 

Captions and subtitles enhance your videos by making them more accessible and boosting engagement for a wider audience. Adobe Premiere Pro offers a powerful, integrated toolset for creating, editing, styling, and exporting captions and subtitles in all supported formats.

The Captions and Graphics workspace

Captions and Graphics workspace in Premiere Pro, showing panels for editing captions, previewing video, styling text, and adjusting the caption track.
An overview of the Captions and Graphics workspace in Premiere Pro.

A. Text panel B. Program Monitor C. Properties and Graphics Templates panels D. Timeline panel 

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

When your video is ready, export captions as stylized, burned-in subtitles or .srt sidecar text files. You can also embed them in a QuickTime MXF file.

Tip:

Add captions when your edit is finished or close to finished. Although you can fine-tune and edit along with a caption track, if you delete caption segments, you'll need to recreate them manually to restore a part of a clip to your final edit.