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02 · HyperText

Captions youdon’t have to redo.

Fixes what Premiere’s native captions get wrong, and lets you animate text by hand without fighting every clip.

Smart line breaksA preview you can editNative caption trackLocal transcriptionWord by word

By count · like Premiere

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Illustrative animation. Pause it with the button at the bottom right.

The problem.

Sound familiar?Premiere breaks captions by count.

It leaves “the” at the end of a line, splits “red flags” in two and makes you rewrite half the track by hand. In a reel, every odd break shows.

HyperText creates the caption track from the active sequence’s transcript, with more control than Premiere: lines that read well the first time, and a preview where you fix any break with one click.

What it does.

The Transcript card does the captions. The Word splitter and the selection tools handle the rest.

Transcript

Creates the caption track from the active sequence’s transcript. By characters (10 to 48, 16 by default), by words (1 to 6) or Smart: groups of 1 to 3 words that belong together, cut at the speaker’s pauses. Dynamic bold shows two lines with the phrase being spoken in bold.

By charactersBy wordsSmartDynamic bold

Smart captions

The switch brings the same care to characters and words: no line ends on “the”, “a” or “of”, and none crosses the end of a sentence.

Capitals & punctuation

Choose the case, and strip punctuation if you want. Numbers are kept.

OriginalSentence caseEach Wordlowercase

Transcript preview

See the captions split by bars before you apply. Click a chunk and the playhead jumps to its start. Click between two words to split it, click a bar to join two. A reset button brings back the automatic split. What you edit is what gets applied. With Dynamic bold the preview only shows.

Apply

Apply to timeline creates a native caption track. Apply to HyperCaptions sends the same texts to HyperCaptions to animate them.

On the selection

Already using Premiere’s captions? Select them and change their capitals in one click. It is the only thing touched. Do it before upgrading them to graphics.

Local transcription

When Premiere won’t transcribe, or gets names and brands wrong, HyperText transcribes the sequence on your computer with Whisper: no cloud, with per-word timing. It becomes the transcript HyperChat uses too. Whisper is installed separately for now.

Word splitter

Read a clip or type the text and create one segment per word across the clip’s duration. Fix a split you got wrong, or animate a phrase word by word.

Ask by typing

In HyperChat, the command picks the style, the capitals and the punctuation for you.

3-word captions, no punctuationSmart captions in lowercase

Work flows.

Three jobs, with the buttons named as in the panel.

Workflow 1

Captions that read well the first time

From a talking-head clip to a native caption track, with the breaks checked before you apply.

  1. 01

    Choose how lines break

    In the Transcript card pick Smart, or By words (3 is a good number if you will animate by hand). Dynamic bold gives two lines with the spoken phrase in bold.

  2. 02

    Set capitals and punctuation

    Original, Sentence case, Each Word or lowercase, and strip punctuation if you want.

  3. 03

    Check the preview

    Click a chunk to jump the playhead to it. Click between two words to split, click a bar to join. What you edit is what gets applied.

  4. 04

    Apply

    Apply to timeline writes the native caption track. Or Apply to HyperCaptions to animate the same texts.

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Dynamic bold

Two lines on screen: the line being spoken is in bold and the next one in light. The bold moves down a line as it advances, like word tracking, all with Premiere's native captions.

HyperCaptions has a style with the same name that imitates it with two mogrts.

Illustrative animation. Pause it with the button at the bottom right.

Workflow 2

A phrase, word by word

One clip per word, so you can animate each one.

  1. 01

    Read the clip

    Select the text and press Read clip, or type the phrase in the box.

  2. 02

    Create cuts

    Create cuts makes a caption track with one segment per word across the clip’s duration.

  3. 03

    Upgrade to graphic

    In Premiere, select the captions and use Upgrade Caption to Graphic. Premiere does not let plugins do this step.

    Manual step in Premiere
  4. 04

    Animate and add sound

    Animate with your Premiere presets or with HyperTools. To make a sound on every word, use SFX to clips.

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One word per clip: upgrade to graphic and animate each one at your own pace.

Illustrative animation. Pause it with the button at the bottom right.

Workflow 3

Fix the captions you already have

No need to start over.

  1. 01

    Select your captions

    In the Premiere timeline, select the captions you want to change.

  2. 02

    Pick the capitals

    Under On the selection choose Sentence case, Each Word or lowercase.

  3. 03

    Nothing else moves

    Only the capitals change; everything else stays Premiere’s. Do it before upgrading them to graphics.

Good to know.

Whisper is installed separately
Local transcription needs it for now. Settings › External tools tells you whether you have it and how to install it.
Smart uses your AI
It runs on the AI you choose in Settings. Plain character and word splits need none.
Upgrading to graphics is manual
Premiere does not let a plugin upgrade captions to graphics. It is one right-click for you; HyperText does the rest.
Dynamic bold preview is read-only
With Dynamic bold the preview shows the lines but does not let you split or join. Use the other styles for that.