Add Subtitles in Premiere Pro

Premiere transcribes inside the app: open Window > Text, generate a transcript on the Transcript tab, then choose Captions > Create captions from transcript, with settings for characters per line, duration, gap and one or two lines. Adobe's Speech to Text languages are Danish, Dutch, English (US and UK), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, European Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese (Mandarin), Traditional Chinese (Mandarin) and Traditional Cantonese. English comes installed; the others are language packs you download.

An SRT from Exemplary AI earns its place when the speech is in a language outside that list, when the transcript should be corrected before it touches your sequence, or when you need the same captions in more languages. It brings the spoken language detected for you, a transcript you correct like a document before it reaches the timeline, speaker names in the file if you want them, and translation into any of 116 languages, each language as its own SRT; import each language as its own caption track.

One catch: Premiere imports SRT but not VTT. If you have a .vtt file, switch it to SRT first with the SRT to VTT converter, which works both ways. Want the captions in the picture instead? See burn subtitles into video, or the guides for DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro.