Hebrew captions in Premiere Pro, without the RTL fight
Captain Cut transcribes Hebrew audio and writes properly right-to-left captions straight onto your Premiere timeline — correct direction, correct punctuation, no reversed text, no manual fixes.
Every Hebrew-speaking editor knows the ritual. You transcribe your video somewhere, paste the text into Premiere, and watch it fall apart: sentences render left-to-right, periods and question marks jump to the wrong end of the line, numbers flip the direction of everything around them, and mixed Hebrew-English lines turn into scrambled word salad. Then you spend an evening nudging characters around by hand.
The problem isn't you — it's that most caption tools were built for English first and treat right-to-left languages as an edge case. Captain Cut treats Hebrew as a first-class language. Transcription is done by a model that actually understands Hebrew speech — including names, slang, and the English words Israelis drop mid-sentence — and the captions land on your timeline already rendered right-to-left, correctly.
Translated naturally.
In every language.
Native phrasing, not word-for-word. Word-level timestamps, burned-in or exported as SRT — in seconds.
What usually breaks with Hebrew captions — and what Captain Cut does instead
- Direction. Generic tools output logical-order text that Premiere renders backwards. Captain Cut writes captions that display right-to-left as spoken, no manual reversal.
- Punctuation position. Periods, commas, and question marks belong on the left end of a Hebrew line. Tools that don't understand bidi rules put them on the right. Captain Cut places them where Hebrew readers expect them.
- Mixed Hebrew and English. Israeli speech mixes in English constantly — product names, tech terms, brand names. Bidirectional text is exactly where naive tools scramble word order. Captain Cut keeps each run in its own direction, in the right sequence.
- Numbers and dates. Digits are left-to-right even inside RTL text. One wrong bidi mark and "2026" drags half the sentence with it. Captain Cut handles numerals without flipping the line.
- Names. Hebrew names transliterated by English-first models come out mangled. Captain Cut preserves proper names instead of replacing them with near-sounding dictionary words.
The workflow, start to finish
1. Open Captain Cut from Premiere's Extensions menu with your sequence active.
- Choose Hebrew (or auto-detect — it recognizes Hebrew audio on its own).
- The engine transcribes with word-level timestamps and writes native Premiere caption tracks onto your timeline.
- Style with your own presets or Essential Graphics — the captions are standard Premiere captions, so every styling and export path you already use keeps working, including SRT export for YouTube.
Need the same video for an international audience? Generate a second pass translated into English or any of 40+ languages — one recording, every audience.
Podcast and interview editors: run silence removal before generating captions. Hebrew interviews average minutes of dead air per episode — cut it first, and your captions are generated once, on the final cut.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Captions are written to the timeline already in correct RTL display order, with punctuation on the left end of lines and numerals kept left-to-right — the two places where generic tools break Hebrew text.
Mixed-direction lines are handled with proper bidirectional ordering: Hebrew runs right-to-left, embedded English words and numbers stay left-to-right, and the overall reading order stays correct. This is the single most common failure in other tools.
Transcription uses a model with strong Hebrew speech coverage, word-level timestamps, and name preservation. Accuracy is at its best with clear speech; you review everything on the timeline before export, and edits are ordinary Premiere caption edits.
Yes. Captain Cut writes standard Premiere caption tracks, so Premiere's own export paths work unchanged — SRT sidecar files, burned-in captions, or both.
Yes — you can transcribe Hebrew as Hebrew, or translate to English (or any supported language) during generation. Many creators publish both from the same recording.
Plans start at $14.99/month with 100 minutes of AI processing, and every plan has a 7-day free trial — enough to caption real projects before paying. See pricing.