Adobe Premiere Pro - How to Auto Transcribe and Caption

Choose Transcribe and Create Captions

The Caption default preferences should work

For Transcript Preferences,

Chose English,

Speaker Labeling Chose "Yes, Seperate Speakers"

Audio track to caption pick "Mix" to get all the dialog.

Choose Transcribe and Create Captions

Multiple progress bars will cycle in the text panel

Wait until the process is complete

When the transcribing is done, the Captions Panel will display each section of the dialog in it's new format and a new track will be added on the timeline.

The auto transcribe does a relatively great job but it can still get caught up on bad audio, uncommon words, and names. It is recommended to go through the transcript and check for errors.

Additionally, if you elect to not opt-in to have it recognize when different people are talking, the breaks won't be as accurate.

To edit, just double click on the word you need to change and it will enable editing for that paragraph and highlight the word.

Once done, click outside of the box and the change is applied.

If you need to adjust the timing of when, or how long the text is displayed on the screen, you can adjust individual text blocks in the subtitle track on the timeline.

If you plan to use an SRT file for optional captioning, you can delete the subtitle track once the SRT file has been saved.

To delete the track, right click on the subtitle track in your timeline and select "Delete Track"

If you need to import your SRT file (or an outside SRT file), go to the caption panel and select "Import captions from file", select your SRT file, and then choose what style the SRT is formatted as (subtitle in the case of this wiki).

This will build a subtitle track (similar to how it looked above)