Work with captions in Premiere Pro is a nightmare

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
July 30, 2025
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As a professional video editor, I appreciate the new tools added in the latest Premiere Pro updates—they're genuinely useful. But when it comes to captions? It's a total nightmare. Whether I'm working in English or Spanish, I sometimes get results in Chinese, Thai, Portuguese... even Korean. Honestly, CapCut handles captions better than Premiere. Sorry, but both the captioning system and warp stabilization still need serious improvements.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@KeylaBernal,

What specific version of PR?

I assume you are NOT using the "Enable language auto-detection" (in Preferences)?

Are you using automatic transcription? Or selecting one more clips to transcribe, confirming the language selection at the time?

Yes, there is no way that a clip in English or Spanish, with the transcription language set correctly, should create a transcription in another language.

Stan

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hey @KeylaBernal,

Thanks for sharing your feedback—I read your note and totally understand the pain points.

The issue with captions switching languages unexpectedly does sound like it could be a bug. Would you like me to move this post to the Bugs forum so the right team can take a closer look?

As for Warp Stabilizer, try lowering the Smoothness setting below 8—the default can sometimes be too aggressive. It’s also worth experimenting with the other settings to see what works best for your footage.

Sorry for the trouble, and thanks again for taking the time to share your experience.

Cheers,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

K

KeylaBernalAuthor

Participant

Hi! Thanks for your reply. Sorry about that—I thought I was posting in the bugs forum. And thank you for moving it!

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@KeylaBernal,

The first post in this thread was regarding auto-detection, but the thread illustrates the problem of investigating this as a bug: few follow-up responses and one user reports getting back on track with a restart. It does not appear to be a common problem, but it is so wrong!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-pro-transcribing-into-wrong-language/td-p/14704109

I know there have been other reports of transcription producing the wrong language, but I don't find any others in a search at the moment.

Stan

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