What Premiere Pro accepts
Adobe’s current help pages call the app Adobe Premiere. This page uses the earlier name, Premiere Pro.
Adobe lists these sidecar caption files: SCC, MCC, XML, STL and SRT. The supported XML caption files are W3C TTML (also called DFXP), SMPTE-TT and EBU-TT.
WebVTT (.vtt) is not on Adobe’s list, so use an SRT file. The differences between the two are in SRT vs VTT.
Checked against Adobe’s help pages on October 7, 2026. The latest release in Adobe’s release notes that day was Premiere 26.5.2.
Make the SRT
Drop your audio or video file on the time coded transcript generator, or on the SRT generator, which uses the same tool. The first 10 minutes of up to 3 files a day are free without an account. Longer recordings use minutes from a pack.
Download the transcript as SRT. Each cue has at most two lines of 42 characters and lasts at most 7 seconds, and cues never overlap. Times are written as HH:MM:SS,mmm and count from the start of your recording. If your sequence starts at a timecode other than 00:00:00:00, the Start at setting (paid) adds a start timecode to every cue in the file.
Automatic transcripts contain mistakes. The timings come from a speech model and can be off by a fraction of a second. Check names, numbers and quotes against your footage, and correct a line by clicking it before you download.
Check the timing after you import
Adobe’s help pages do not name a menu for the import step, and they do not describe how imported captions are placed against a sequence that starts at a timecode other than 00:00:00:00. If your sequence does not start at 00:00:00:00, try a short clip first to see where Premiere puts the first cue. Adobe says you can align the captions with your footage after you import them.
Other editors
The same SRT file imports into DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. See time coded transcript examples for what the file contains.