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Keith5C3D
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November 29, 2021
Answered

Captions default to straight quotes and apostrophes when transcribing

I noticed that they captions default to the straight quotes and apostrophes in the captions.

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    Stan Jones
    Stan JonesCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 20, 2025

    Yes, this has been my workflow as well.  Too bad there's no solution for this as of yet.


    All,

     

    See the discussion here for some terminology and workarounds:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/please-put-smart-quotes-in-transcriptions/idi-p/15456127

     

    And it is a feature request you can upvote.

     

    Stan

     

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    hellopaul4
    hellopaul4
    Inspiring
    February 22, 2023

    I'm going to hijack this and paste it as a feature request...maybe more people might notice it? I'm currenlty subtitling a 2h 30m piece (with lots of technical jargon). For this, I'm NOT going to edit all those quotes and apostrophes like I normally do for shorter pieces!

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      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      February 22, 2023

      In some cases, 'smart quotes' on with an apostrophe gets a white box instead of an apostrophe.

       

      Just a heads-up ...

       

       

      Neil

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      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 29, 2021

      There are several font styles that behave differently depending on whether you edit in the Text Panel or in the Program Monitor. This appears to be one of them. Make the edit in the Program Monitor, you get smart quotes. In the Text Panel, you get straight quotes.

       

      No, this does not make sense. It is not, by the way, an issue of closed caption (e.g. 608) vs Subtitle.

       

      I did not test what happens on export.

       

      Stan

       

       

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