Real-time on the GPU
Captions are drawn by a native Metal effect, so playback stays smooth — no rendering previews just to check timing.
Captions by Lightmyst · for Premiere Pro
Scroll-stopping captions, without leaving Premiere.
A few words on screen at a time, the spoken word highlighted, pop and bounce animations — the CapCut and Instagram look, built straight from Premiere's own transcript and updating live in your Program monitor.
macOS · Premiere Pro 25.6 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel
REC9:16
Style
Animation
From finished cut to captioned video in a minute.
No exporting to another app, no re-importing, no MOGRTs to wrangle. Everything happens in a panel inside Premiere.
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Transcribe
Use Premiere's built-in transcription on your talking clips — the same one you already know.
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Get words from timeline
The panel reads every clip's transcript and lines the words up with your cuts, trims and speed changes.
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Pick a look
Choose words on screen, a style and an animation. Tweak fonts, colours and position as much as you like.
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Add to sequence
A caption layer lands on a new top track. Every change shows up in the Program monitor straight away.
Built for editors who publish every week.
Fast enough for daily social content, precise enough for long-form client work.
Follows your edit
Captions track sequence time, not the layer, so you can trim, cut and move freely. Re-cut the video and your corrections carry over.
Fix anything, keep the timing
Correct a word, delete a caption, split or merge, nudge in 10 ms steps. Fifty levels of undo, and deleted lines can be restored.
Any font you own
Every installed font and weight, with outline, shadow, line or block backgrounds, letter spacing and tilt. Emoji too.
Looks you can save
Start from built-in styles — Bold Pop, Hormozi, Highlight Box, Karaoke, Clean and more — then save your own for each client.
Any size, any format
Sizes scale with the sequence, so 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 — and 4K — look the same. Export an .srt for platform closed captions.
Every control you'd expect.
All in one panel, all live.
- Words on screen
- 1 to 10 at a time, up to three lines, with letters-per-line limits
- Grouping
- New caption at each sentence or pause, hold through short pauses, timing nudge
- Clean-up
- Leave out um/uh, bleep swear words, change case, keep or drop punctuation
- Spoken word
- Highlight colour, box behind the word, karaoke fill, word size
- Text
- Font, style, size, colour; all at once, one by one, or upcoming words dimmed
- Outline & shadow
- Outline width and colour; shadow amount, softness, distance and colour
- Background
- Box behind each line or the whole caption, opacity, padding, corners
- Position
- Height on screen, left/right, text width, alignment, tilt
- Animation
- Pop, bounce, fade, slide up, word by word, dim ahead — with adjustable speed
- Export
- .srt for YouTube, Instagram and TikTok closed captions
Try it on your next video.
Install, caption a real project, and decide afterwards. No card needed to start.
Pro
Captions by Lightmyst
Everything in the plugin, plus every update while you're subscribed.
$15/ month
- 7-day free trial, no card required
- All styles, animations and controls
- Unlimited projects and sequences
- Transcription runs locally in Premiere — no per-minute fees
- New looks and features as they ship
- Cancel any time
Prices in USD. Taxes may apply.
Download
Install for Mac
One signed, notarized installer adds the effect and the Premiere panel together.
- Premiere Pro25.6 or later
- MacApple Silicon or Intel, on a macOS version your Premiere supports
- AdobeCreative Cloud Desktop installed and signed in
- WindowsNot yet — Mac only for now
After installing, restart Premiere and open Window → UXP Plugins.
Questions
Do I need to transcribe somewhere else first?
No. The plugin uses Premiere's own transcript (Text panel → Transcribe). It runs on your Mac, so there are no upload or per-minute costs. You can also load a transcript file exported from Premiere's Text panel.
What happens if I re-cut the video after captioning?
Press Get words from timeline again. Your look is kept, and text corrections, splits, merges and deletions are re-applied wherever they match the same source words. Anything that can't be matched safely is listed for you to review, never guessed.
Will it slow down playback?
Captions are drawn by a native effect and composited on the GPU with Metal, and each caption is only redrawn when it changes. Playback stays real-time on typical social timelines.
Can I trim or move the caption layer?
Yes. Captions follow the sequence's time, not the layer's, so you can cut, trim and move the layer without the captions drifting.
Does bleeping swear words also bleep the audio?
No — it censors the caption text only. Your audio is untouched.
Is there a Windows version?
Not yet. The plugin is Mac-only for now, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
How do I uninstall?
Quit Premiere and run the included Uninstall effect package, then remove the panel in Creative Cloud Desktop → Plugins → Manage plugins. Your saved captions and looks are left in place.
Your next video deserves better captions.
Start your free trial and caption a real project today.