Captions Workflow Improvements

Question

I've been using the new Auto Transcriptions Captions feature for all of our programs (and since MacCaption is EOL, why not move to some Adobe magic). However, I have a lot of painpoints.

1. Please add a way to save Captions formats/layouts to apply to different projects. Right now, I have to set this up each time.

2. Add a way to integrate Speaker Nmes into the caption workflow. Right now I have to manually type in ">PERSON NAME: " before the first word, and Premiere doesn't know that's introducing the person talking. It's a clunky workaround, especially since it can differentiate speakers. A checkbox enabling "insert speaker names into captions" would be great.

3. Many times the generated script includes a word at the end of a section which belongs to the next person's section. There's not a way to click in and say, move down or merge with below and there should. In face, the merge and split don't always work, and I wish they did—maybe they would fix some of these issues.

4. Add an ALL CAPS button to transform all words to uppercase.

Stan Jones · Answer

@DaveChap,

Great suggestions and focus on problem areas.

1 - Sharing Caption Track Styles

There have been various requests to improve the handling of track styles across projects. See this post for discussion:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-pro-15-edit-rename-delete-captions-master-style/m-p/13493028#M449588

If you have multiple styles used often, I would use the export/import multiple styles workaround.

2 - Add options for using transcript Speaker in the captions track.

Upvote this feature request in the box at the top of the thread. I am linking to my review of the topic and a list of related requests.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/beta-add-speaker-names-and-2-lines-option-to-captions-from-transcription/idc-p/13998726#M10600

3 - Last word included in speaker A transcript section is actually speaker B

I would report an example as a bug and offer to provide clips and project file to staff. Generally, split and merge work correctly for me. Position cursor at the beginning of the word. Split creates a one word transcript section. Drag-select that word and at least part of the next section and Merge.

Merge changed to selection-based a version or so back.

4 - Faux font options do not provide an actual conversion of text, and are limited.

See my post in your thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-captions-lower-case-to-upper-case-all-caps/m-p/14036850#M473751

This would be a feature request. I hope I am missing something, and it is actually available in regular text if not captions.

Stan

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