Export captions as .vtt (WebVTT) files

@Matt3265090327qy,

Thanks for your thoughtful post. The absence of this feature is frustrating. I do believe they are still working on this, but there is no recent evidence to support that belief.

My most recent update is above. I see no changes in PR 25.0.0 or PR Beta 25.2.0.50.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/export-captions-as-vtt-webvtt-files/idc-p/14524674#M14021

@TeresaDemel @AnnikaKoenig @Francis-Crossman17221443

It is true that srt exports from PR do not include meaningful styling (only in-line tags such as italics/bold). The best option for exporting styling is to use one of the closed caption options. I have not tested any workflows that include converters for closed captions to vtt.

I agree that the speaker names in the PR transcript are not carried forward to the captions - and therefore not to any caption exports. There are plugins related to, for example, animating subtitles from the current PR subtitle workflow. I have not evaluated them. The ones I took quick looks at do not provide for keeping the speaker name. I suspect this is not trivial, since they are relying on a caption track, which does not include the speaker name. I think it is possible to do so by using the caption track and/or srt export and the timecodes and speaker name from a static transcript export.

Stan

To hopefully save other frustrated users some time, as of January 2025, despite the misleading pinned reply, the captioning workflow STILL does not have any support for .VTT (import, editing, or export) on Premiere Pro on PC.

Nationally, states are requiring captions for WCAG compliance and there is still no support for this on Premiere Pro.

Microsoft PowerPoint only accepts VTT format files for captions. Some CART captioners only provide VTT format files.

Saved transcripts from Zoom export in VTT format and preserve Speaker Names.

Even if you mark the speaker names in the transcipt panel in Premiere Pro, upon creating a SRT caption file, the resulting file excludes any speaker names. 

Any attempt to convert a file to SRT format strips away the speaker names because unlike VTT, SRT is more rudimentary and does not have a field for Speaker Names in the caption file itself. Not to mention the privacy and security issues with uploading unpublished content to conversion websites and downloading whatever comes out.

We really need this feature or to give up on this product and find a better alternative that does support VTT.

Using converts is a work around. But sharing with 3rd parties is a no go for sensetive work projects.

Any update? Please move this up in the list of priorities please. Thanks!

I’ve been using SubEasy free subtitle formatting tools for conversions, including formats like SRT, VTT. https://www.subeasy.ai/convert-vtt-to-srt .

or were they ever?

Are you STILL working on this?

Has there been any follow up to this issue? My client's Wordpress video player only accepts .vtt files and my old work around using YouTube captioning is starting to get unreliable. Adobe Premiere Community, any suggestions for work arounds for generating .vtt caption files for your web videos?

Have you taken a look at SubTitle Edit. It is open source. It may work with your file format.

I discovered that in OneDrive, CoPilot will create a transcript and VTT file from a video which can be exported.

Time to wake up Adobe!