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Now in Beta: Translate Captions for Premiere Pro

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November 24, 2024
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Ever since we launched Text-Based Editing, you’ve been asking for translation capabilities. We’re happy to have an answer to this top request: now you can translate captions in 17 languages without leaving Premiere Pro!

You can translate captions that are generated inside Premiere Pro or imported via .srt file. Currently, only translation of captions is supported – not transcripts.

To use caption translation:

Create Captions in the Text panel.
Select the Translate captions icon in the Captions tab. 
Choose the language you want your captions translated into and select Translate. You can select multiple languages!

Captions will be translated using a cloud service and third-party translation models, and a new track will be created in the Timeline panel. The progress of the translation is displayed in the Progress panel and on the track item. 
You can now enable multiple captions simultaneously! Just select the eye icon for each corresponding language track to display all the captions on the Program Monitor.

Styling Captions

You can then select and style the captions using the options in the Properties panel. Once you are done styling, apply the style to all captions in the track by selecting the Redefine style icon in the Properties panel and selecting All captions on track.

Exporting Captions

After styling the captions, you can export captions (as .srt files), or export videos with captions burned-in, or sidecar files. Burned-in captions allow exporting multiple captions simultaneously, while currently, embed and sidecar captions only support exporting one caption at a time.

For more details you can visit the page https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/translate-captions.html

Your feedback is valuable!

We hope this new feature helps to breaks language barriers, enabling you to connect with global audiences effortlessly. Your feedback is critical, especially when it comes to the nuance of translation as well as the overall workflow within the app.

You can provide feedback on the quality and accuracy of the translation or report it for being problematic or offensive by selecting the icon at the bottom-left corner of the Captions tab and rating or reporting the content.

Let us know what you think!

Vaibhavi Jani

Senior Product Manager, Adobe Premiere Pro

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ATucker32

Participant

What third party services do you use to translate the captions?

Vaibhavi Jani

Author

Community Manager

@ATucker32 Google & Microsoft

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Bruno335214757se4

Participant

Hello!

I would like to work with that tool, but it doesn't appear in my normal Premiere Pro (25.1) and the Beta (25.2), eventhough a lot of internet sources tell me it should be there. The Icon is just not there.
I am located in Germany and my Macbook language (and Adobe language) is set to german. Could that be a problem?

I would really like to try this.
Thank you!

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Bruno335214757se4

Participant

It is Version 25.2.0 BETA (Build 116).
Device is Macbook Pro M1 MAX 32GB

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Maria Agustina_Macias6434

Participant

I’ve downloaded the latest beta version, and I don’t have the icon. Same issue, it’s very frustrating that you showcase functionalities that don’t work. We would like solutions because this is a bug.

Vaibhavi Jani

Author

Community Manager

@lee_1475 @Maria Agustina_Macias6434 Our team is investigating this and we should be able to fix it very soon. Could you share your device details in the meanwhile?

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Maria Agustina_Macias6434

Participant

Thank you very much, because it is very difficult to see premiere innovations and then not be able to use them.

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lee_1475

Participant

why there is no translate caption button on my premiere while the version is beta 25.2 build 117 and language pack installed, thanks

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Adam38532747o7on

Participant

Hi all,

I started using the caption translation feature yesterday to convert English to Spanish on our subtitiles. Everything went fine for the first few videos, but today when I started trying to do the same with more videos, the translation feature always gives me an error: "Can't complete caption translations to Spanish (ES). Please try again." I have tried 10+ times and restarted Premiere. I'm not sure why it suddenly stopped working.

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Chris235354358e6o

Participant

Having this same issue too. It worked fine yesterday and not today. I even tried a file that translated successfully yesterday and it failed today. It must be some server-side cloud issue. Hopefully, they fix it soon. I am on the latest update.

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Ed32042400sueh

Participant

I am experiencing the same problem too. I cannot seem to convert any captions into Japanese. I am in need of a resolution as soon as possible too. I'm hoping there is a fix soon as it was working days ago.

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Flight Media Specialist

Participating Frequently

For multi track captioniong we need a way to import more than one caption track and choose which caption track to import to. Currently there is none. It will only allow you to import one track!

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@Flight Media Specialist,

>For multi track captioniong we need a way to import more than one caption track and choose which caption track to import to. Currently there is none. It will only allow you to import one track!

I had not noticed this before your post: in the Release version as well as this multi-track capable Beta, there is no Import option in the 3 dot menu.

To get the "import from file" option, disable all caption tracks AND make sure there is no caption selected in any of the tracks, whether enabled or not.

Yes, being able to import multiple caption tracks at once would be useful.

I can see a use-case for being able to manipulate multiple tracks (move/reorder, combine), but not really for target an existing track to import to.

Stan

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Flight Media Specialist

Participating Frequently

The use case would be if you have 4 timed transcripts and you wanted to import all 4 seperate .srt files each to their own caption track, rather than importing one disabling it then importing another and disabling it then importing another disabling it and then importing the last one. You would just select import from the three dot menu, then ctrl click the four .srt files to import and each .srt file would import into it's own unique caption track timed and everything thus saving a lot of labor and time rather than going through the process many times. Just something to ponder for efficiency and optimization.

Consider this scenario you are an editor and are provided four transcripts in a timed .srt file or other format and you want to add the captions to your edit. "Why didn't you use the built in transcription tools for each track?" You might ask. Well perhaps they aren't using a good microphone, or the mic cuts out, or the ausio is of such poor quality that even the best signal processing tools out there can't quite clean them up well enough to transcribe, or the speakers are overlapping, talking over each other (which is exactly why captioning this edit would be desirable.) I can definatly argue being able to import multiple timed files to individual caption tracks would save a ton of labor and clicks. Call me crazy just trying to make a great product even better! I love what your team is doing and am greatful for your dedication to the community.

Cheers-

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dv.media

Participant

Hi,
The Translate captions icon in the Captions tab is not visible or active in my Premiere Pro. I am running ver. 25.1 .The screenshot is from a tutorial.
This is a great time saving feauture.
Thanks.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@dv.media,

The translate captions function is only available so far in the PR Beta version (25.2.0).

Stan

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Nels36250780rjwo

Participant

I'm trying to translate some captions from Russian to English -- this was working last week but now it's giving me an error and saying the language isn't supported. Has Russian support been removed or is something else going wrong? It appears to be uploading the captions before giving this error:

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@Nels36250780rjwo,

I just updated to Build 96. I do not have a Russian source sample, but I translated from English (auto-detected) to Russian and then from the Russian subtitles (auto-detected) back to english.

Stan

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Nels36250780rjwo

Participant

Wow -- thanks for the experiment -- super helpful to know! I'll try to figure out if there's something else going on. (Meanwhile if anyone else has any ideas, feel free to add...)

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Piotr Gardecki

Known Participant

I tried the new tool by importing more than an hour-long recording for a meeting held in Japanese, translated into English using the new feature. Everything went smoothly and without problems. When trying to export, the text remained in orgianle in Japanese. Is there an option somewhere to export the translation only? Maybe I missed something to export to txt file the result of the translation?