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January 24, 2023
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Export captions as .vtt (WebVTT) files

  • January 24, 2023
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I'd like the option to export closed captions as .vtt files. Some of my clients only accept this format, and doing it manually or with different software is either very time consuming or costly.

100 replies

Participant
November 7, 2024

Are you STILL working on this?

Participant
July 18, 2024

Has there been any follow up to this issue? My client's Wordpress video player only accepts .vtt files and my old work around using YouTube captioning is starting to get unreliable. Adobe Premiere Community, any suggestions for work arounds for generating .vtt caption files for your web videos?

Participating Frequently
June 19, 2024

Have you taken a look at SubTitle Edit. It is open source. It may work with your file format.

Participating Frequently
June 19, 2024

I discovered that in OneDrive, CoPilot will create a transcript and VTT file from a video which can be exported.

Time to wake up Adobe!

Participant
June 19, 2024

It is June 19th, 2024, and there is still no VTT support. What happened?

Participating Frequently
May 9, 2024

I don't actually need Premiere Pro, as the edit is finished. VTT captions were done externally for DCP and now a burn in mp4 copy is needed. Does anyone know of another NLE that could marry the two?

Participating Frequently
May 9, 2024

Try Subtitle Edit, it is free and open sourced program. Comes in very handy when captioning and working around Adobe slow response to our captioning needs.

Participating Frequently
May 9, 2024

Also, importing VTT files is important. What's happening here? Anyone have workarounds? Last time I tried to convert to SRT it was not accurate.

Known Participant
April 4, 2024

You can export to VTT in DaVinci Resolve just fine. Just sayin'.

https://editingtools.io/guides/convert-resolve-subtitle-to-vtt 

Participating Frequently
April 1, 2024

While we all wait, as Adobe continues to ignore us, my go to solution is to export an SRT file. I then use Subtitle Edit (open source) which can create a VTT output. It is better then holding my breath.