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Exporting captions as a sidecar file from Adobe Premiere Pro

Exporting captions as a sidecar file from Adobe Premiere Pro

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Exporting captions as a sidecar file from Adobe Premiere Pro

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- The sidecar file is a additional file, typically a very small text file, that is written next to the movie. This is a file that you can directly upload when going to different sites, like Facebook or others. It will allow you to actually take the content, the captions, and upload them for the other website. Now, if you're going to a site like YouTube, these uploaded captions would take the place of the auto-generated ones. And, with a site like Facebook, these captions would then become available. You need to upload captions to Facebook, really, to truly enable them as part of the video stream. Let me show you how to create the sidecar file. When you're inside of Premiere Pro, simply invoke the Export Settings window by choosing File, Export, Media. The shortcut is Command or Control + M. Now, choose a format that you want for the web. I'll go with H.264 here. And simply choose an option that's web-friendly, such as YouTube 720. Now, from the Captions area, I'm gonna create a new…

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