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PAUL129
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September 23, 2026
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Automatically align transcript with track

I am a beginner with Adobe Premiere Pro. Is there a way to automatically align the transcript with the audio track? The transcript has put two words on the first line and continues moving to the second line. If I move the first to words to the second line the track and the transcripts do not align. Thank you

    Stan Jones
    Stan JonesCorrect answer
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    September 24, 2026

    ​@PAUL129 

    Thanks Paul, the screenshot is very helpful.

    What you have are Captions, not the transcript. There are important differences, but no matter as long as we know. As Sumeet says, the way to combine 2 caption segments is a merge. You select the 2, then click the merge icon in the Text panel/captions tab. That is this symbol:

     

    When you do that, the text of each is added together, and the new caption segment has a beginning timecode of segment 1 beginning and an ending timecode of the end timecode of segment 2.

    This should not produce any change to the audio. 

    If you do literally what you said, you cut the text out of caption segment 2 and paste it into caption segment 1, the words are compressed into the length of segment 1, and there are no words on the screen when the audio says those words.

    It that what happened?

    Stan

     

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    derekwatson
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    derekwatsonCommunity Expert
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    September 23, 2026

    They should be automatically aligned, you have to be careful if dragging that you do not drag away from the aligned keyframes

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    Derek Watson
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      Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity Manager
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      September 23, 2026

      Hi PAUL129,

      Welcome to the community! To better understand the issue, we’ll need a few more details. Please let us know the version of Premiere you are using and how the transcript was created (sequence vs. source clip, and whether it’s a static or dynamic transcript)? Is this happening with a specific sequence or project, or with all of them? If possible, please also share a short screen recording of the issue. That will help us guide you with the next steps.

      Thanks,
      Sumeet

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        PAUL129Author
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        September 24, 2026

        Thank you. I will have a look. So much appreciate your help 👍

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        Stan Jones
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        Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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        September 23, 2026

        ​@PAUL129 

        The transcript should always be aligned with the audio in the timeline, assuming you created a source media transcript (from a clip, not a static transcript of the sequence).

        Are you sure we are talking about the transcript and not captions? Transcripts generally look like paragraphs, not lines.

        A screenshot might help. What version of PR are you using? The latest is 26.5.1.

        Stan

         

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          PAUL129Author
          Inspiring
          September 23, 2026

          Hi Stan, thank you for the reply. I have attached a screen shot. There are only two words in the first segment oof the transcript and I would like combine them with the second segment. When I do this, it throws out the alignment of the audio track

           

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            Stan Jones
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            Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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            September 24, 2026

            ​@PAUL129 

            Thanks Paul, the screenshot is very helpful.

            What you have are Captions, not the transcript. There are important differences, but no matter as long as we know. As Sumeet says, the way to combine 2 caption segments is a merge. You select the 2, then click the merge icon in the Text panel/captions tab. That is this symbol:

             

            When you do that, the text of each is added together, and the new caption segment has a beginning timecode of segment 1 beginning and an ending timecode of the end timecode of segment 2.

            This should not produce any change to the audio. 

            If you do literally what you said, you cut the text out of caption segment 2 and paste it into caption segment 1, the words are compressed into the length of segment 1, and there are no words on the screen when the audio says those words.

            It that what happened?

            Stan

             

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