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How to translate captions in Premiere Pro
Short answer
In Premiere Pro 25.2 and later, open the Captions tab of the Text panel and use Translate captions to pick the target languages. Premiere makes a caption track per language.
In Premiere Pro
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Finish the source captions
Correct the original captions first. Translation copies their mistakes.
02
Open Translate captions
In Window > Text, open the Captions tab, then choose Translate captions from the panel's menu.
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Pick languages
Choose one or more target languages and click Translate.
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Check each track
Premiere adds a caption track per language. Switch between them with the caption track menu, and have a fluent speaker check the result.
05
Export subtitle files
In Export mode, open Captions and export each language as a sidecar SRT file.
- Older versions without Caption Translation need the captions translated outside Premiere and imported as SRT files.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie doesn't translate captions. It dubs the edit instead.
Captions in Eddie stay in the spoken language. For another language, open the voice-over composer, choose Dub this edit and pick one of 90+ languages and a voice, or ask "Dub this edit into Spanish." A dub run covers about 9 minutes of dialogue. In Premiere, the dub arrives on its own audio track.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Which version of Premiere translates captions?
- Caption Translation arrived in Premiere Pro 25.2.
- Does Premiere translate the audio?
- No. It translates caption text only.