French Captions for Premiere Pro
Transcribe and caption French footage directly inside Premiere Pro. You get word-level timestamps and a standard Premiere caption track you can restyle and export like any other.
Captioning French footage usually means leaving your edit: export the audio, run it through a separate transcription service, wait, download an SRT, import it back, then fix the timing against a timeline that has already moved on. Every round trip is a chance for the captions and the cut to drift apart.
Captain Cut is a native Adobe Premiere Pro extension, so the whole loop happens on the sequence you already have open. French is one of the 40+ languages it transcribes, with word-level timestamps written straight into a standard Premiere caption track.
Translated naturally.
In every language.
Native phrasing, not word-for-word. Word-level timestamps, burned-in or exported as SRT — in seconds.
How French transcription works in Captain Cut
Captain Cut transcribes your sequence's audio with word-level timestamps and writes the result into a standard Premiere Pro caption track — the same track type Premiere's own captions use.
Because the output is native, nothing about it is locked to the plugin. You restyle it with Essential Graphics (font, size, position, background box) exactly as you would a caption track you typed by hand, and you export it as SRT when you need a file for YouTube, a client, or a translator instead of on-screen text.
Editing and exporting French captions
Once the caption track exists, you edit it in Premiere's own caption panel — click a line, retype it, drag the caption clip to adjust timing. Word-level timestamps mean the boundaries you're nudging line up with individual words rather than a whole block of text.
For delivery, export straight to SRT: upload it to YouTube, send it to a client for review, or hand it to a translator for a second-language version.
Cutting the footage before you caption it
Captions are usually the last step, and they go faster on a tight cut. Captain Cut's silence removal analyses each track and places synced cuts across the sequence, with sensitivity and padding under your control so pauses that carry meaning survive. Filler-word removal clears the euhs and false starts in the same pass.
If the result isn't what you wanted, a single Cmd+Z takes the whole thing back — you're not undoing hundreds of individual cuts one at a time. Processing runs on the GPU, roughly 100x faster than making the same cuts by hand, at 99.2% frame accuracy.
Translating from or into French
If your source is French and you need English captions — or the reverse — Captain Cut translates while transcribing rather than requiring a second pass. You get the target-language caption track directly, with word-level timestamps, so publishing the same video to a French and an English audience doesn't mean cutting the timeline twice.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. French is one of the 40+ languages Captain Cut transcribes, with word-level timestamps.
Yes. Captions land as a standard Premiere Pro caption track, so you edit text and timing in Premiere's caption panel and restyle with Essential Graphics like any other caption track.
Yes. The caption track exports to SRT, so you can upload it to YouTube, send it for review, or pass it to a translator.
No. Captain Cut is a native Adobe Premiere Pro extension only — it doesn't run inside DaVinci Resolve or other NLEs.
Plans start at $14.99/month with 100 minutes of AI processing included, and every plan includes a 7-day free trial. You can cancel anytime. See pricing for the full breakdown.
Yes. Captain Cut translates while transcribing, producing a target-language caption track with word-level timestamps directly, without a separate translation pass.
Caption your French footage in Premiere Pro
Word-level timestamps in a native Premiere caption track, with SRT export. From $14.99/mo, 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
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