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timed to the spoken word

Word-by-Word Captions in Adobe Premiere Pro

Caption Plug transcribes sequence audio with word-level timestamps, then renders active-word animation directly onto the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.

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Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 (v14) or newer · Windows and macOS · 14-day refund policy

Live product output, rendered by Caption Plug's actual caption engine.

Sentence timing is not word timing

Premiere's native captions are excellent for editable subtitles, but a sentence-level caption does not know which word is being spoken inside the sentence. That is why manual karaoke highlights become a wall of keyframes.

Caption Plug keeps every Whisper word and timestamp. The render engine samples that timing at the sequence frame rate, so the spoken word can change colour, scale, fill, underline, or move without hand animation.

product workflow

From sequence audio to finished captions

  1. 01

    Select dialogue

    Select the dialogue clips you want captioned, or leave nothing selected to use the whole sequence.

  2. 02

    Transcribe locally

    The bundled Whisper model returns each word with a start and end time. Optional cloud providers remain available.

  3. 03

    Choose the motion

    Pick a preset, font, colour, words per caption, and position while the actual render engine previews the result.

  4. 04

    Place it on the timeline

    Caption Plug renders at the sequence resolution and frame rate, then places the output on a fresh video track.

output example

A highlight that follows speech, frame by frame

Animated mode creates transparent, frame-accurate media clips. For revisions that matter more than per-word motion, switch to Editable text and generate a native Premiere caption track instead.

compatibility

  • Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 (v14) or newer
  • Windows and macOS
  • Horizontal, square, and vertical sequences
  • Local Whisper plus optional OpenAI or Groq transcription

honest limitations

  • Transcription can miss names, accents, or speech under loud music, so review the transcript before export.
  • Per-word animation is available in Animated clips mode. Premiere's native caption tracks do not expose the same animation control.
  • Rendered output uses project-adjacent media and should be kept with the Premiere project when archiving.

next steps

Pay once. Use it without limits.

45 animated caption presets, 8 title presets, 62 fonts, local Whisper, and every v1.x update are included for $8.99.

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