Create captions

Last updated on Jun 24, 2025

Discover how to easily create captions in Adobe Premiere Pro to enhance accessibility and boost viewer engagement.

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Follow along with any project to learn how to add captions to your videos.

Before you begin

Create a project and import media with Automatic Transcription selected. Selecting Automatic Transcription ensures a transcript is created as soon as your media is imported, saving time later in the workflow.

In case you missed selecting Automatic Transcription while importing files, do the following.

Select the media you'd like to import.

Select Window > Workspaces > Captions and Graphics to switch to the dedicated workspace for captioning.

Select Captions > Create captions from transcript.

In the Create captions dialog box, customize the following options for arranging captions on the timeline:

Caption preset: Choose among the given options or opt for Subtitle default which is suitable for most use cases.
Format: Select the caption format you want for your video.
Stream: Specify the broadcast streams for some caption formats (such as Teletext).
Style: Select from your saved caption styles.
Length, duration, and gap between captions: Set the length of characters, fix the duration for each line of caption text, and specify gaps between the captions.
Lines: Choose to keep your captions in a single line or wrap it into two lines.

The Create Captions dialog box in Premiere Pro, showing options for preset, format, style, and timing adjustments. — Use the Create Captions dialog box to customize your preset, format, style, and timing settings.

Select Create captions, and captions will be created and aligned with the video's dialogue.

Find and replace text in transcript

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