Creating your transcription. [Video Tutorial]

To begin working with SubMachine, you’ll need to use Adobe’s AI transcription engine included in Premiere Pro. Quick Tip: We recommend doing your work with SubMachine on a finished encode of a video to keep playback snappy and the timeline clean. Alternatively, you can work with SubMachine above a nested sequence.

In the Text window, select “Transcribe Sequence” and in a matter of seconds or minutes you should have a transcription of your entire timeline.

Now that you have a transcript in your text window, you may correct any inaccuracies in this panel before you proceed. This is not a requirement, though, as SubMachine has robust tools for adjusting the contents of your transcript. After the transcript is created, we’ll now need to “Create Captions” with the “CC” icon above your transcript, using some special settings.

You can leave all settings as default except for the Last Four. All of these settings should be brought to their minimum value, as pictured above. Quick Tip: When dragging these sliders, you need to actually release your mouse click while it is still inside the Create Captions dialog box. It’s a little clunky.

You can also import this preset in the Create Captions dialog box though we recommend just doing the settings manually.

The resulting captions should appear in the Captions tab of the Text panel. Because of the settings we chose, you should see only a single word or two on each line.

You can delete the yellow caption tracks that have appeared on your timeline, as those are just standard captions and not the dynamic text we’re looking for.