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June 6, 2025
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How Do You Handle Speaker-Separated Captions in Premiere Pro?

  • June 6, 2025
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Hello!
Premiere Pro’s built-in speech-to-text feature creates all captions in a single track at once, so whenever I need speaker-separated SRT files, I always have to split them manually:

  • Create multiple tracks and copy/paste text by speaker

  • Or set up different styles on a single track and change each clip’s style one by one

Both methods are very time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient. On top of that, most external tools like CutBack, Descript, or Vrew are subscription-based, which adds a financial burden.

To solve this problem, I’m about to launch a free web tool that automatically generates speaker-separated SRT files with just a CSV upload:

  • Upload a CSV (or tab/comma-delimited text)

  • Instantly download a set of speaker-separated SRT files—“A_speaker.srt,” “B_speaker.srt,” etc.

  • Drag & drop them onto your Premiere timeline, and you’re done!

Honestly, I started this project because I was frustrated and thought, “Let me just build something to fix this.” But I’m curious how others are handling it, so I decided to write this post.

I tried to collect a list of interested users via Google Forms to notify them later, but I found out that many communities prohibit that. If you have your own method, please share it in the comments. And if you’d like to be notified when it’s ready, leave a comment and I’ll let you know once it’s complete.

1 reply

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 8, 2025

@baramsol193,

 

Let us know here when your tool is available. It will be very useful - in Release 25.2.0, Adobe enabled multiple caption tracks as part of the caption translation feature. For burn-in, this allows putting multiple speakers on screen at once and using a different caption track style (including position) for each track/speaker. I don't think there was any focus on the importance of enabling multiple tracks. I posted some information when this was being discussed in the Beta forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-translate-captions-for-premiere-pro/m-p/15075060#M10951

 

Upvote this feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/beta-add-speaker-names-and-2-lines-option-to-captions-from-transcription/idi-p/13515882

 

It has the most votes of any of the similar requests. I summarized others in a couple posts there.

 

Stan