Ever since we launched Text-Based Editing, you’ve been asking for translation capabilities. We’re happy to have an answer to this top request: now you can translate captions in 17 languages without leaving Premiere Pro!
You can translate captions that are generated inside Premiere Pro or imported via .srt file. Currently, only translation of captions is supported – not transcripts.
To use caption translation:
- Create Captions in the Text panel.
- Select the Translate captions icon in the Captions tab.
- Choose the language you want your captions translated into and select Translate. You can select multiple languages!
- Captions will be translated using a cloud service and third-party translation models, and a new track will be created in the Timeline panel. The progress of the translation is displayed in the Progress panel and on the track item.
- You can now enable multiple captions simultaneously! Just select the eye icon for each corresponding language track to display all the captions on the Program Monitor.
Styling Captions
You can then select and style the captions using the options in the Properties panel. Once you are done styling, apply the style to all captions in the track by selecting the Redefine style icon in the Properties panel and selecting All captions on track.
Exporting Captions
After styling the captions, you can export captions (as .srt files), or export videos with captions burned-in, or sidecar files. Burned-in captions allow exporting multiple captions simultaneously, while currently, embed and sidecar captions only support exporting one caption at a time.
For more details you can visit the page https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/translate-captions.html
Your feedback is valuable!
We hope this new feature helps to breaks language barriers, enabling you to connect with global audiences effortlessly. Your feedback is critical, especially when it comes to the nuance of translation as well as the overall workflow within the app.
You can provide feedback on the quality and accuracy of the translation or report it for being problematic or offensive by selecting the icon at the bottom-left corner of the Captions tab and rating or reporting the content.
Let us know what you think!
Vaibhavi Jani
Senior Product Manager, Adobe Premiere Pro
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If you have tried the feature in the beta build please leave your feedback here https://forms.office.com/r/d3Zdn0DEkp
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"Multiple Caption Tracks Enabled"
This is new functionality added as part of the caption translation feature. @Vaibhavi Jani's post here is the only announcement of it. It has been argued for by many users, and this feature alone will be a major advancement.
It changes some of the basic operation of caption tracks. For example, when creating more than one caption track, each new track is enabled by default. Previously, only the new track would be enabled.
When there is no selection of a caption in one of the caption tracks, "Multiple caption tracks enabled" appears in the Captions tab of the Text panel, with a new icon and message. (Screenshot at the end.) There are several keyboard shortcuts for working with Caption Tracks, and some will no longer operate as expected. For example, Activate next/previous caption track.
If a caption in any track is selected, the captions of that track appear in the Text Panel/Captions tab, and that caption appears in the Properties Panel. If you deselect all, the "multiple tracks" message returns.
As noted in the announcement, only one sidecar file can be exported at a time. If using the 3 dot menu to export srt, it appears to be the track showing in the captions tab, whether it is enabled or not. If nothing is selected (the "multiple tracks" message shows in the Captions tab), the export options are greyed out.
If you "export media" and pick burn in, it shows which tracks are being burned in, and these are any that are enabled. If you export and pick sidecar with only one enabled, it uses that track. If you have multiple tracks enabled, it uses the lowest numbered track that is enabled (e.g. C2 over C3). If no tracks are enabled, as expected, Captions in the export settings is greyed out.
As noted in the announcement, you can apply a different style to each track. This means that you can position different tracks to differentiate speakers as well as translations. Many users will be hoping that there are plans to include Speaker information (from the transcript) to Captions.
My tests were using Win10 on Beta v25.2.0.50 and 25.2.0.71.
Stan
I can't enable multiple caption tracks anymore. It used to work just fine a few days ago. Now it shows this.
I'm trying to translate some captions from Russian to English -- this was working last week but now it's giving me an error and saying the language isn't supported. Has Russian support been removed or is something else going wrong? It appears to be uploading the captions before giving this error:
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