How to Create Fancy Subtitle Captions That Animate by Word

in this video I'm going to Showcase to you exactly how I achieve these fancy animated subtitle captions that you see appearing on the screen right now using the clip you just saw as an example this is what the final timeline looks like my top layer is a video file of the animated captions that I made in a separate program called descript and this is what that looks like at the end if this looks a little overwhelming don't worry I'll explain all of this and for those of you that probably are wondering if you can do this in portrait you can I just go up here click that portrait and a lot of these kind of subtitles are used for social media but since I'm doing this on YouTube for a YouTube video right now I'm dealing in landscape just know that it's easy to switch between the two a quick side note before I begin for those of you that are looking for a plug-in to achieve a similar type of result there is one for Premiere Pro called the Submachine and this is completely within Premiere Pro it uses murtz and the text to speech uh transcriptions that's already in Premiere Pro I find that this is a little bit more of a learning curve but this is an option I'll have a link to it in the description below I'm not going to be covering Submachine in this video I just wanted to tell that to those of you that want to stay inside Premiere Pro personally I really like descript for accomplishing these kind of subtitles and that's the workflow that I actually use so I'm going to teach you that in this video the first step that I do with my workflow is export just the audio from Premiere Pro in specifically anything with vo and dialogue you could essentially export the entire video including the visual and then export from descript I don't like doing this because every single time you export the visual it's going to degrade the quality of your video but for those of you that need to have the visual inside descript to frame where your captions go I completely understand that I just like to save time by not exporting my visual because I don't really need it I just need the audio from that vo and dialogue inside descript for the transcription so I'm just going to solo my dialogue and voice over tracks go up to file export media you could also just go to the export tab for the format all the way down to waveform audio you could do MP3 if you wanted to and just rename these and save it where you want to and hit export now over in descript I'm going to start a new project video project add file find where you saved that file right here I have hit that like button uncore audio and hit open I want to insert this into my script transcribe and transcription doesn't take too long it obviously depends on how long your audio file is once this is transcribed this looks very similar to how it would inside Premiere Pro if you are looking for a timeline it's down here on the bottom left and for right now we just have a blank video if you want to see what that looks like to you exactly how I achieve these fancy but to get our captions on screen we're going to go up here to actions that's right above above your sequence title all I need to do is type in the word captions and we'll have insert captions so I will click this and automatically it has inserted a caption track for those of you that are just starting this probably looks like classic where each word just pops up as normal if you want to adjust how many words are there you can do that easily by just clicking and dragging it's pretty self-explanatory and user friendly in order to change how these look all we have to do is go over here to our style and switch this from classic to karaoke or clean now in order to see these differences I might actually change my background color so right now it's black but I'm going to click this little button right here and what you saw in the beginning was red so I'm going to change my background to red and the reason why I'm choosing Red is because it doesn't look anything like any of the other animations we are eventually going to be green screening out this red so if you do have any kind of red in your branding for these don't choose red choose a different background color that you won't see going back down to my captions we can change the font how thick or thin it is all of your normal font parameters but instead of classic what I might do is go to karaoke and this is what you saw with the words highlighting as I say them on screen I have a little background right here that is also applied underneath the style so I'll click this karaoke again and what you're viewing is this background right here so I can turn that off or on I can turn the active word off or on I can change the opacity for what the future words are right here and it gives you that much customization so I'll just hit play exactly how I achieve these fancy animated subtitle captions that you see appearing on the and that's basically what you saw when I started the video if you did notice there was a bunch of different types of animations happening and this is where I think descript really shines with plug-and playay animation presets let's say I want to start out with this kind of style but I want to switch it when it gets to my next phrase so right here I'm going to right click and you can add scene at playhead I'm going to click that and we've started a new scene with this new scene we can change the animation style so I'll go up here to these four squares which is templates click that in gallery they have a whole captions template so I'm going to click this and here are captions they're all in portrait but like I was showing you in the beginning of the video it makes it really easy to apply these to landscape now let's say I want to do this tilted skewed karaoke style so I'll click that and it automatically applies that to my video you could match orientation here to what the template was but again I'm doing this in landscape most of you probably be doing this in portrait and it would automatically switch that if you did match orientation but for right now I'm going to keep this in landscape notice that the background color changed and I'm going to address this in a second but I just want to show you how easy it is to create a couple more different animations so here I'm going to create another scene like so go back up to my templates and and this one where it changes green as it goes to the next word so we can go something like that I'm going to Center this one we actually going to Center this one too let's add another scene I'm just hitting that question mark key just so we can see the difference one word at a time typewriter since you get the idea I'm going to fast forward through this part and this is what I ended up with in this video I'm going to Showcase to you exactly how I achieve these fancy animated exactly how I achieve these and then fancy animated gets switched halfway through so I need to move this which is easy enough I'll just click and drag to where I need that to switch achieve these fancy animated subtitle captions that you see appearing on the screen right now now we need to make the background the same throughout and in order to do this I'm going to go over to this little spot at the end I'll create a shape right here with the rectangle bring that over like such and I need to expand my timeline like this I need to make it taller so I can see that rectangle shape and now I'm going to click and drag this all the way to the beginning and I need to send this to the back so I'm going to right click layer order send to back now that is behind our captions but we don't want white we want that red color so now I'm going to go to fill and change that fill to red and it has changed that fill to red red for the entire thing if you did all of this and you needed to do it to Portrait here's portrait and everything kind of looks off and that's okay what we need to do is click this and move the red background like so and once I've moved it it's only done it for this one scene and it hasn't done it for the rest of these scenes and when I say scene it's these numbers right here the three four five six that's the numbered scene now if I want to apply what I just did to this red to the entire timeline of all the scenes I just need to go up to the three little dots right here and apply properties to all scenes now it makes the red fill the entire screen for every single scene now I could go back to landscape I could do square and it acts how I would want it to and automatically frames itself without me having to redo anything which is super awesome one last thing we need to address is under here in advanced make sure that your frame rate matches whatever the sequence is so if you have a 23.98 frames per second edit it as that if you have a 30 frames per second edit it as that to export our file we're going to go up here to publish in the top right click that with dript you are partially using this as an online editor with public in you export and you use their cloud computing to render the files if you do export it's going to use your local machine that's why it says here get your file 10x faster with the publishing feature I'll leave it up to you whether you want to use publish or export for this one let's go ahead and use publish I'm going to change the access to project access required that way it's not something that anybody could find on the internet or you could share that link with somebody resolution is Max and I will hit the download button back inside Premiere Pro here is that animated file just going to drag that into my project bin and I will bring that above my video file looks like everything is lining up as it needs to I'm going to delete the audio track so I'm going to hold option on Mac or alt on Windows click that and delete the audio file next we need to remove the red so I'm going to bring up my effects tab by hitting shift 7 look for Ultra key drag that onto your animated clip go to your effects controls by hitting shift 5 go to ultra key grab your eyedropper click the red and there is the animation now we going to drop this down a little bit and here's what it looks like in this video I'm going to Showcase to you exactly how I achieve these fancy animated subtitle captions that you see appearing on the screen right now obviously this isn't perfect because if you needed to change anything you would have to go back to descript and update it to however you need to and Export it again but for Social Media stuff and quick 60-second clips at most this does a fantastic job for my workflow I have a link to descript in the description and until next time I hope you're out there living a life of abundance bye

Channel: Javier Mercedes

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Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 30 2023