How To Animate And Use Premiere Pro Speech To Text Captions

if you're like me then you've spent way too long on some video projects adding things like text and captions to your project but premiere pro has an incredibly fast way to do all of this work for you it's called speech to text and i'm going to show you how to use it right now [Music] and make sure to stay to the end of the video to find out how you could win a free three-month subscription to motionarray.com okay so here's the deal for a while now adobe has had this feature inside of premiere pro called speech to text which basically just takes your existing audio or dialogue inside your project and turns it into actual text captions for you the process is super smooth and simple but it does take a little bit of getting used to and there is a bit of a workaround you need to do in order to actually turn those captions into text boxes that you can add things like effects and transitions to so today i'm going to be showing you a basic rundown of how to actually use this feature whether you're creating social media content and you want to have text to help retain users from scrolling by or you're exporting out a two-hour long feature film and you don't want to manually type in every single line of dialogue speech to text is definitely your friend and you're going to be able to get a lot of use out of it and the cherry on top is that near to the end i'm going to be showing you how to turn those captions that you cannot add effects and transitions onto and turn them into text boxes that you can edit so if you're excited smash the like button subscribe and let's dive into premiere pro so here i have just a 15 second video that i want to post on my social media account and i wanted to create subtitles for it to help retain users attention but it's really tedious to listen and add a text box then line it up type it out reposition and fine tune it then repeat that that would just become ridiculous so there's a better way first thing is just to make sure that your premiere pro is up to date to at least version 15.4 once you do you should see that you have a text option and to find that go up to window text from here under the captions section you can either import captions from a file if that work has been done in advance create a new caption track or transcribe a sequence we're going to transcribe this sequence that i have open once you click the button you have a couple of options to set up premiere pro to have the easiest time possible if you've already gone through your audio and label dialogue through the essential sound panel you can select this option up here but for me i know that all of my dialogue is under audio track number one so i'll select audio on track and track one there's a lot of different languages you can choose from but i'm transcribing english content so i'll tell premiere to look for that you can see here that i've already set my in and out points for this region here and by selecting only inside of in and out points i can make sure that nothing extra gets processed just the stuff in this area and if you have multiple different people speaking you can ask premiere pro to distinguish between them i only have myself talking so i'll leave this unchecked so let's hit the transcribe button and here we go now i sped this process up in post but the whole thing took exactly 24 seconds now our video was 15 seconds so even though that wasn't blistering fast that was way faster than doing it all by hand and typing everything out and moving everything around and here's the thing if you did have a much longer video this process is going to take longer but you can just hit transcribe and walk away go make yourself a coffee do some other work and you can effectively multitask but now let's dive in and let's see exactly how good of a job it actually did this was incredibly accurate no mistakes made apart from simply wanting after effects to be capitalized but you'll notice that it actually got things like youtube right even though there's a unique capitalization situation and even things like punctuation and question marks are flawlessly included so if we wanted to make this properly capitalized we can actually just click on that word and premiere will actually go to that part of the video where that word was said amazing now just double click on it and we can either edit it to respel capitalize or change it to be however we want and you'll notice that we don't actually have any of our text showing up in the video and that's because we haven't created the captions yet so once you're ready just go up here to the create captions button and click it once you click the create captions button you'll have a couple of options you want to create them from the sequence transcript that you just had to create you can choose the format that you want your captions to be in there's a variety like cea 608 and 708 teletext but for me subtitle is perfect and if you know of any other requirements that you need this is where you would click that option you can choose a particular style to already create a specific look for your subtitles and you can see here that i have a couple of options that i've already created ahead of time but if this is your first time doing it you're not going to have any styles that you've pre-created so you can stick with none the maximum length in characters is just how far across the screen it'll reach i like maximum length of 42 and the minimum duration in seconds you can keep the default unless you know you have a specific requirement and then finally gap between captions i like keeping it to zero so there's always text on screen and it's not jarring if there's a frame or two where there's no text on screen before the next one shows up and finally you can choose whether or not you want to have one line or two lines visible of text i like a clean single line personally and there you go your captions are on a separate track above your video here and they're actually showing up in real time so let's play back and see exactly how this looks and sounds wanna know how i made my dog appear out of a picture it's easier than you might think and thankfully all of this can be done right inside of after effects check out our youtube channel for the full length tutorial on this event so you can see that the captions were perfectly done there's not a single point at which they're off but if you did need to make any sort of adjustments you can actually just treat these like regular timeline layers and edit their timing to your liking but there is a problem this is not the style that i want my text to be in i want it to be a different font maybe a little bit of a different color no stroke on the outside so how do i actually do that well it's really simple you can edit your captions by highlighting one or as many captions as you want and then go up to the essential graphics panel and from here you can see that we have our c1 subtitle being indicated at the top here indicating that we are actually editing right now these captions here in the c1 section and it says that multiple items are selected indicating that for as many items as we have selected those are the changes that are going to be applied so if we just had one item selected and we make a change like increase its size that's only going to apply to this one caption here but for example if we highlight all of them and we increase the size all of our captions are going to retain those changes so if you're making global changes across your entire project i'd suggest highlighting all of your captions and then making changes here from inside the essential graphics panel so let's go through and just stylize our text a little bit i'm going to start by changing the font you can also choose here which zone you would like your captions to be in bottom middle top right left corner but i like bottom middle personally i'm going to change the font style to be something a little less bold and i'm going to take off the shadow you can also do things like add a stroke change the color of that stroke you can add a background increase the opacity of that background increase the size of that background round the corners but for me i'm going to take off background and stroke and i'm actually going to reintroduce the shadow take it down a little bit push it a little bit farther away from my text to create a bit of a 3d sense and then i'm actually going to soften this a little bit more so you can see the before and the after and if you wanted to change the color of your text you can do that here too maybe something a little bit more like a traditional movie yellow text that might suit you personally but i like plain white and with that you can see that my captions reflect all of those changes across the entirety of the project and if you like what you created you can easily set a preset to use in the future by going up to track style and selecting create style name it and then all that work is saved so you can just select this preset in the future but now we come into a little bit of a problem here let's say that i wanted to add this simple text rise that i created in a previous tutorial nothing crazy but it does add a little bit of energy to the text i'll go over here to my presets but you actually can't add effects or transitions to captions so how do you fix this there's actually two different methods the first one is for short videos like my 15 second video here and the other one is for longer videos say that your video was like two hour long feature film that would be a better method for that but let's start with the first short method add a new text layer with ctrl or command t and then stretch out that to be the same length as all of your captions now let's highlight our text layer and go to essential graphics and center our text with the paragraph styles and then center align it horizontally this will just make sure that any time we make changes it'll treat our text in the same way that we've set up our captions to be and now let's take our blade tool and make cuts in the same places as the captions begin and end having snapping on here will really help us out now comes the main part copying and pasting our text super easy double-click your first caption this brings it up in essential graphics now double-click on the text up here it highlights all of your text for you from there you can just copy it with ctrl or command c now highlight your text layer and double click this same section it'll highlight your text and then you can paste it here with control or command v and your text is here ready to go and once you get the feel for it you can start flying through your text and with that boom that's a really fast way to turn your transcribed captions into text now you can add effects animations transitions whatever you want to them so let's say that you had a two hour long video that you wanted to convert your captions into true text using this method would take forever but thankfully there is a better way go up here to your text section and export it as an srt file just name it something that you can remember it by and keep it in an easy to access place like on your desktop your text in this format will be just a bunch of garbled information but we're gonna fix that now go to google and search for subtitle to xml and i'll leave a link to the specific converter that i'm using in this example it was the second result for me when i searched for it here you're gonna select the format you wanna convert to as final cut pro xml from this drop-down it has to be final cut pro xml for it to work i know we're using premiere pro but it can actually read final cut pro xml so just so you know that's what we're using upload your srt file and convert it and that's it your job is done you can now take this new xml file back into premiere pro and it'll just be displayed as a new sequence but you can see that it keeps the exact same formatting as our captions just lovely if in the rare event that during this process your text changes to be a different font that's very possible but very fixable and i'll show you how to fix that in just a second but for now we can bring these captions into our main sequence by highlighting all of them and copying them with controller command c now find a video track that's completely empty or add a new one by right clicking here and adding one target this empty track by clicking these areas here so that they're highlighted and now we can bring our playhead to the very beginning and when we paste with ctrl or command v our text lines are perfectly lined up with our captions i'm sure that you can see how if this was a two hour long project this would save loads of time and right now we have both captions and text visible on the screen at the same time so for now i'm just going to turn off these captions here by clicking this little i symbol and now our true text is the only thing visible but like i mentioned before if at any point in this process the text gets messed up from its original font you can click on an example of that text and go up to the essential graphics panel to see exactly what font it switched to now that you know which font it switched to you can go up to graphics and replace fonts in project and now click on the font that you want to change and from this drop down here select the font that you want to replace it with once you hit ok it'll replace that font in every instant that it's present in your project and that's it you're done now you can play with it to your heart's content adding any sort of text animation or preset or anything creative that your mind can come up with and if you guys wanted to use any of our awesome and easy premiere pro presets here from motionray.com i'm gonna link to you to some of my personal favorites but there is a chance that you could use these for free because today in this video we're choosing one lucky winner to win a free three-month subscription to motionarray.com all you have to do is comment anything down below just make sure to include the hashtag motionarraygiveaway my suggestion is tell me how you would use the speech to text function in your next video but guys that's it for me thank you so much for watching this video i really hope it was helpful and i can't wait to see you in the next one bye [Music] you

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Length: 12min 26sec (746 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 26 2021