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November 24, 2025
Question

Latest Premiere Pro update has ruined captions

  • November 24, 2025
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Does anyone seem to know why on the latest version of PP, when auto transcribing video tracks, the captions it generates are laughably bad, missing out entire sentences, getting words completely wrong and just all in all meaning that you have to transcribe the video yourself. I never had issues with the previous versions but after updating it can't handle it. For context, the audio is clean and clear and testing on a seperate system which is still using the older version of PP it handled it like usual. 

12 replies

January 14, 2026

SOLUTION: I had this issue. Switched to an older version of 25.5 which fixed it.

 

January 14, 2026

Same issue here. I have a Mac Mini M4 Pro running 25.6.3 that has near perfect transcription for English. Bought a new M5 Macbook Pro last year and installed the same Premiere version, and the transcription is wildly inaccurate. Missing simple (and clearly spoken) words, punctuations all around, and lots of missing text when converted to captions. I tried clearing cache and installing older version on new Macbook Pro, making sure I use the same assets and same project file, still the same issue persists. I'm sticking to editing on the Mac Mini for now but it would be great to have the Macbook Pro for editing on the go, if only this issue is resolved.

January 11, 2026

Same issue on the MacBook M5, haven't had any issue on my M4, but as soon as I switched it go horrible.

Glitic
December 10, 2025

I'm literally having de same issue wirh my M5 , When I worked in my M3 Pro I didn't have issues with that tool, but for now I've been transcripting in my Windows PC because if I do the Transcripcion in my MacBook M5, the result awful

Known Participant
December 5, 2025

Hello @Kevin-Monahan,

 

Thank you for your reply. The problem encountered by this user is exactly the same as mine.

Unfortunately, no solution seems to have been found. Let's hope we can find the source of the problem 🙂

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
December 10, 2025

Hi,

I read your post. What languages are you working with. I wonder if the two cases have any other similarities. Can you send me a copy of the project? Upload it and then PM me a URL. I can forward it to the team. Let me know.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Participant
November 26, 2025

Uninstalling this POS.

Participant
November 26, 2025

Mine won't even create the captions any more and it took ages to transcribe.

 

Come on Adobe. We are paying for this product.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2025

@27632917,

 

Wow. So a sentence in the program monitor/sequence view of the transcript does not appear in the captions?

 

Stan

 

November 25, 2025

@Stan Jones 

I am importing the clip into the timeline, then creating a transcript. After the transcript is in and edited to change mistakes and flow, that is when I then click the 'Create Captions' button on the top row of the Transcript window. 

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 24, 2025

@27632917,

 

Are you transcribing and then creating captions? Or are you using the single-step option of creating the transcription and captions? The latter occurs when you put untranscribed clips in a sequence, and click "Create captions from transcript" in the Captions tab.

 

I just tested a known hour-long sample in 24.6.5, 25.6.2, and Beta 26.0.0.39, and compared the transcription from each. 

 

Testing Captions involves another step, so I'm wondering how you created your captions.

 

Stan