Hi there, this is Unmesh from
PiXimperfect! How are you, my friend? I hope you're having a beautiful day, and if
not, I'm very sure that you're doing your best to turn it into a happy one. Well, in
this video we're going to talk about captions, and when it comes to captions
that are not only a necessity for our friends who are hard of hearing, but it
also saves you in a lot of awkward situations, doesn't it? Let's say you are
in an event or a function, and it's just getting boring and boring. And you want to
scroll through social media videos. And, it would be disrespecting for people if
you put your headphones on, or turn up the volume. Who saves you at the time?
Captions! They just save your brass. Well, when it comes to adding captions to your
videos, it can either be a pain in the neck or a hole in the pocket, but not
anymore! Premiere Pro has recently added a feature where you can automatically
generate captions and not just that also time it properly, accurately, precisely,
everything using the speech-to-text feature in Premiere Pro. In this video,
we'll learn how you can use this feature to increase the reach of your videos not
just among some of our friends who are hard of hearing, but also among a lot of
people who just watch videos with captions. You and I, all the time, we
observe ourselves on social media scrolling, and we're just watching videos
with captions but no sound on. So that's important! I'm excited to share with you
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free gift. Let's get back to the tutorial. Back in the magical world of Premiere Pro,
and if you wanna go ahead and download any of the sample footage and follow along,
check the link in the description. To have this feature available, first of all, make
sure that you are on Premiere Pro version 15.4 or above. So here's the sample
footage from one of our previous videos. Hi there, this is Unmesh from
PiXimperfect. Alright, so let's add captions to it. So there's a couple of
ways to do it, you can click on captions at the top to switch to captions
workspace. If you don't see anything like that, you can click on the grid right
there and choose reset to saved layout. Alright, let's make it a little large.
That's one. If you cannot find the captions workspace at the top, you can go
to Window, Workspaces, and then make sure Captions is checked right over there.
There's a dot not a check. And the third way is, even if you are in the editing
workspace, you can go to Window and just choose text to have this open. Lots of
ways to do the exact same thing you can stick the text here, and it works too. Now
in this new version of Premiere Pro apart from these two buttons, which are already
there, you'll find a new button called transcribe sequence. If for some reason
this doesn't work for you, don't worry, I'll tell you what to do. First of all, we
will figure out what audio do we want to transcribe. In this case, we will choose
audio on track, which is this audio, all of the audio on track. However, if your
video has lots of sound effect, lots of other different types of audio apart from
the dialogue. In that case, you might want to tag the audio clips, which are just
dialogues. So in that case, you might choose the first one we have not tagged
anything as dialogues. And to do that, first of all, let's hit Cancel, you can
choose this audio, you can go to the essential sound panel by going to window
and then choose Essential Sound. And in there, you can just click on Dialogue to
tag it as dialogue. Now when you click on transcribe settings, you can choose this
option. So you can select the audio clips which are dialogue and tag it as Dialogue.
And then you can choose this to only transcribe them in case your video has
lots of sound effects which can be disturbing. So in this case, there's
nothing like that and I want to remove the tag by clicking on clear audio type. And
we don't need essential sound panel right over there. Anyway, let's do that
transcribe sequence and audio on track, you can have a mix of all of the audio
right there or you can have just audio one which is A1 so everything in a one will be
transcribed. Now, choose the language. In this case I'm going to choose English and
interestingly it also has Hindi right over here. See, my monitor is not; there's a
scaling so I cannot show it, but you can see it right there. There's that which is
cool isn't it. The first option is transcribe in point to outpoint only. So
if you have defined in and out points for certain section of the video, you can only
transcribe that particular section if you wish to. So you can check that if you want
that. And then you can also merge the output with existing transcription. If you
have already have had a transcription done of it, on top of it, you want to create
another transcription of a section and you want to merge both. You can do that, but
we don't want to do any of that. Also, the third option is important. That is opt in
to recognize when different speakers are talking, if you have different speakers
talking in your video, you can check that. By the way, there's a legal notice that
you need to enable. So that way it will be able to recognize when Unmesh is talking
or where there's another person in the video that is talking maybe Scott Kelby.
So if Unmesh is talking, you can just set like this voice is Unmesh you can just set
that that voice is of Scott Kelby. So you can have different names showing up in the
captions when they are speaking. Alright, so I don't want any of that and just click
on transcribe and by the way, this is going to be processed in the cloud, it
doesn't take long. But this is going to be processed in the cloud. So if you don't
have an active internet connection while you're using this, or well, you know what
I'm talking about. In that case, it won't work. Have a look, the transcription is
done. Let's play it. Hi, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. I hope you having a
great day. Couple mistakes here and there. Just a couple let's go ahead and correct
that. And those are just named mistakes in beginning there's some mistakes so you can
easily correct them. Hi there, comma, masche? This is interesting. This is
Unmesh. Let's correct that. And PiXimperfect and, by the way, you can
click on any word and it will take you to that place in the timeline. For example,
if you click on Awesome, awesome one, today I'm going to share with you see
takes you there. Let's click here, extremely hash, it takes you there. So run
through it, there this is Unmesh from, see if there are any mistakes, correct them
and then you can create the captions. Let's play it once: PiXimperfect. I hope you are having a great day and if
not, I'm sure that you, my friend, are doing your best to make it an awesome one.
Today I'm going to I love that it has included punctuations and proper
capitalization. I love that, to share with you how to fix harsh lighting in
Photoshop. In other words, see, P is capital in Photoshop and Adobe does know
it products well, how to remove extremely harsh shadows and extremely harsh
highlights and overall dim it down. And it's super easy to do. So without any
further ado, let's get started. Awesome. Let's get started. I would add an
exclamation right over there if there are certain words which are repeatedly
mistaken for example, if there's a name I'm seeing in the video again and again
and it's repeatedly taking Unmesh as asche, so I can just type in m-a-s-
-h-e whatever it's doing and replace it fo the proper name so you can find everythin
and replace everything, you can corr ct it, there's a lot of ways you can
easily correct what is there. Also, if you move in the timeline, see it moves there
s well. You can add a speaker here if you wish to, so you can choose Edit speaker an
you can change the name of the unknown s eaker to the speaker who is speaking and s
ve it so you know what speaker is there This is very important for transcripts
when you have multiple people speaking al o if you do want to export it, you can e
port all of it as a txt file, you can choo e Export to txt file, and this will work.
ow let's click on create captions. Firs of all, let's choose the caption preset
subtitle default is fine. You can create your own preset if you wish to this will
ust make a preset of all of these sett ngs. Now first we have the format subtit
e option here is closed caption. Everythin else is open captions. So let's choose
ubtitle. Even then you can save it as sidecar file later, you can choose to b
rn it in the video. That's all up to you. I always choose subtitles, it works for mo
t cases, rest of the options you c n choose according to your preference. For
example, let's say you don't want mor than 30 characters at once in the capti
n so you can just reduce maximum l ngth and characters to 30 here, but 42 is
fine for me. Let's keep it at that and click on Create. Also you can choose the
ines. So do you want a single line of ca tions or double line so I'm gonna choose d
uble and let's click on Create. There y u go, my friend, you have the captions rea
y. Let's play it. And let me show you how this is. Hi there, this is Un
esh from PiXimperfect. I hope you havin a great day, and if not, I'm sure th
t you my friend are doing your best to m ke it an awesome one. It's just awesome
isn't it? Now how do you edit that? Jus select the individual subtitles or selec
all of them and simply go to the graphic tab or you can go to Window and then e
sential graphics, it'll show up on the ri ht hand side. So let's make it a little l
rger so that we can see what we are do ng. And let's go to the Edit section. A
d there you go. You can change the font ere, do whatever you want. So let's selec
all of them. Alright, and let's choose he font "Arial," the most common and i
just works. Arial Regular looks good. S we're gonna go to Hi there. Alright, now
ere, you can choose to have shadow you an choose to have backgrounds that's up
o you. So we can go ahead and just turn o background. I like that you can choose t
e background color to be black and have little more opaque background. You can
ave a little more spread right over ther . That's the way it is in Facebook, by the
way. You can have a little more rounded corners let me make it a little larger
o that you can see what's happening. Alr ght, so we can have a little rounded cor
ers here. This looks very, very nice. And let's play it. This is Unmesh from PiXimp
rfect I hope you having a great day and i not I'm sure that you my... now how t
export that select the timeline, go o File, Export, Media there. And right i
here by the way, I'm sorry for the crazy scaling just to make it big and easy for
you to see I've scaled it and it just lots of options are just not visible anyway. So
just go to the captions settings here yo can choose to burn the captions into t
e video, so it will be just burned int the video and permanent right there. Or,
you can choose to create a sidecar file li e SRT, you can choose the format right
ere as SRT subrip, have a look right here it shows SRT, and let's go ahead and exp
rt it. Have a look at the export right ere. It comes with a sidecar file, which
s SRT, so you can just open it and play it. Hi there. This is Unmesh from PiXimp
rfect. I hope you're having a great day. A d if not, I'm sure that you my friend
re doing your best. Did you notice an wesome thing? This subtitle is separate.
So if I right click on it and go to subti le, I can just turn it off, disable. To
make it an awesome one. Today I'm going t share with you if I wan See, that is the advantage of that... how
to fix harsh lighting in Photoshop. In other words, how to remove extremely
harsh... so that is the advantage of creating a sidecar file so you can turn it
off and turn it on if you want it to burn that subtitle permanently in the video,
just choose that option. By the way, there's an advantage to burning that in
the video. And that is it will always be there. Some players online might not
support subtitles. Or the other advantage here is that you can style the text
however way you want, you can choose whatever font you want, you can choose
however the background you want it to be. So there's a lot of options. Now what to
do if this feature is not working for some reason. And you know what I'm talking
about. I highly recommend that we all support the people who create such
software. But anyway, if this doesn't work for you, for some reason, I understand.
This is what you do. This is a free alternative to this. The answer is simple.
Just go to YouTube, upload your video, wait for a while YouTube generates
automatic captions. Now, they might not be accurate. Also, you probably don't know
how long YouTube is going to take to generate them. Sometimes it can be
instantly. Sometimes it can take even more than a day so it totally depends. Anyway.
So once that is generated, click on duplicate and edit. Click Continue. So
here you have the transcript. Click on Edit timings. And now here you have the
captions. So let's export it unfortunately once you open this window, we cannot just
download it as SRT it will be an SBV file. No problem. Let's download it. Let's keep
it as caption.sbv, click on Save. Now we need to convert this SBV into SRT this
website will do that for you just do a quick Google search convert SBV to SRT and
GoTranscript is going to show up this has worked for me. Just click on Upload,
upload that caption start SBV and then let's say I want to convert it to SRT
click on convert and now let's get back to Premiere Pro with the same video we
downloaded the captions for. So this is the video I did this is an image from
PiXimperfect now, just simply click on Import captions from file and here you'll
choose captions.srt that we generated from YouTube and then converted it click on
open source timecode is fine because it matches with that of the video hit OK. And
there you have it. Let's play it: Hi there! This is an Unmesh from
PiXimperfect. How you doing, my friend? I hope you're having a brilliant day and
by... and from here you can repeat the same process that we did with the previous
video; correct it, customize it, and export it the way you want. So that's how
easy it is to generate captions in Premiere Pro, all you have to do is to go
to the captions tab or captions workspace or just open text dialog box. And from
there, click on transcribe it'll take it to the cloud, it'll process it, then make
the corrections and then click on create captions. That's all there is to it. And
then you can export it the way you want. You can create a sidecar file or burn it
into the video. That's all there is. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you
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