Premiere Pro Guru: Closed and Open Caption Workflows

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding Closed Captioning

• Why caption video?
• What are closed captions?
• What are open captions?

2. Transcriptions

• Common transcription services
• Self-captioning
• Using YouTube to time out verbatim scripts or create captions from scratch

3. Creating and Formatting Closed Caption Tracks

• Importing and viewing captions
• Navigating the Premiere Pro Caption panel
• Adjusting caption timing and deleting captions
• Creating a caption track from scratch
• Formatting captions
• Changing the caption format (608, 708, and open captions)
• Formatting open captions

4. Using the Transcriptive Plugin to Create Subtitles

• Transcriptive explained
• Sending a sequence to Transcriptive
• Sending out interview clips to Transcriptive
• Checking and editing transcripts
• Editing interviews with embedded speech metadata in Premiere Pro
• Creating a caption track from a Transcriptive transcript

5. Exporting

• Exporting the closed caption track
• Exporting media with embedded captions
• Exporting media with sidecar files
• Open caption export

Conclusion

• Summary