Tutorial: Producing Closed Captions in Adobe Premiere Pro CC
In this tutorial you'll learn how to create and edit industry-standard closed captions for video using the new closed-captioning capabilities in the just-released Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Creating Your Own Captions
To create your own captions, click the button second from the right at the bottom of the Project panel, and select Closed Captions from the pop-up menu that appears (Figure 12, below).
Figure 12. Creating new closed captions
The New Closed Captions dialog opens (Figure 13, below). You can see in Figure 13 that Premiere Pro automatically assumes the video settings of the open sequence. Click OK. In the next dialog, which you saw before in Figure 3, choose the standard stream, and a new Closed Captions file appears in the Project panel.
Figure 13. The New Closed Captions dialog
Drag that file into the timeline, click it, open the Captions tab, and then start typing (Figure 14, below), and set In and Out points for the caption. When you’re ready to add another one, click the Add Caption button, and you’ve got your new one.
Figure 14. Type your new caption here.
Rendering the Captions
When you’re ready to render, press Command+M (Mac) or Control+M (Windows), and the Export Settings screen opens. If you choose QuickTime, you can either create a sidecar file or embed the captions in your output file, using the new tab in the Export Settings dialog shown in Figure 15 (below). If you chose a different format like H.264, which is an MP4 format, you would have the option to add the sidecar file, but you can’t embed the captions into the MP4 file.
Figure 15. The new Captions tab in Premiere Pro’s Export Settings
As normal, press Queue to add the file to the Adobe Media Encoder or click Export to export directly.
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