Automated Captions in Premiere Pro (Using Descript)

Found a cool solution to generate accurate captions automatically using Descript and have them easily accessible to edit in Premiere Pro (or any other editing software).

Notes:

You can do this natively in Descript, but my team uses Premiere Pro because Descript is lacking when it comes to complex video editing. Our videos go through a few stages of review using Frame io - this workflow utilises that really well. It's also incredibly important to have a great naming convention for your content files or a Content ID as Stephen calls it. This allows a piece of content to be identified by anyone, even machines not working on the content.

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Problem:

All my videos need subtitles/captions and Premiere Pro's auto-transcription feature is awful compared to Descript, so I needed a solution that didn't require my team to need to export the video manually, upload to descript, adjust settings, export subtitles/video which is a big time waster.

Solution:

2 Zaps, one of which is triggered on an Airtable DB called "Generate Captions". This allows the video editor to generate them when they are ready, there's no point in subtitling a video if it needs massive changes after the fact.

Zap 1: Triggered on airtable button push

Downloads most recent version of the video from Frame io using Production ID
Uploads to Descript
Notify editor that Captions are in-progress

(There's a few more complexities but I'm trying to not make this too long)

Zap 2: Triggered on "New Transcription Ready in Descript"

Finds Google Drive folder (using Prod ID)
Upload SRT file to Gdrive folder
Notify Editor that captions are ready and in the folder

Now the editor just drags the SRT file into their project (literally one click) and they have accurate & automatically generated captions for their video.

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For context, me & my team generate 500+ short-form videos for creators so this is built for scale.

If you've got any better solutions, a question or anything of the sort please comment below, I'm really curious about this community and am trying to provide value where I can 😇

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