How to highlight captions word by word (automatically)
Did you know that you can create captions and animated emojis automatically in Adobe Premiere Pro AND highlight the words being spoken?
This is possible thanks to an extension called AutoCut and this is how you do it.
How to highlight captions word by word (automatically)
First, go to autocut.fr and download AutoCut from their website (for Windows or MacOS).
Once downloaded, go through and install it.
Then, you open up Premiere Pro and open the AutoCut extension by going to Window, Extensions, and AutoCut.
After starting a free trial or buying a subscription (using this discount code for 15% off), you’ll answer a couple of questions and then you land on the homepage.
This will present you with a lot of different tools like for example “AutoCut Podcast”, for automatic editing when you have multiple people and multiple audio layers.
But we are going to click “Auto Captions” and before you start, just make sure that the right clip is selected in the timeline.
First, you design the look and position of your captions by selecting font, animation, transition, text formating, outline, text box, and transform.
Once you are happy with the look, you can save these settings as a preset for later and click “Next step”.
Now, check that the language and the selected clips are correct, and then click process.
Once this is analysed, you can find all your captions at the bottom of the window in a super user-friendly interface, with all the captions separated into individual rows.
To merge two rows, click the icon between the rows.
To split a row, select it, then go up to the “captions editor” and click wherever you want to split the row.
If you have emojis 😊, it will duplicate the emoji when you split the row, so then you just click on one of those rows and click the emoji to change it or the little minus-sign above it to remove it.
To finalize, click “Add captions”.
Hope that helped! 😃
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