A few excerpts
These are lifted word for word from the interview. The full piece is considerably longer and covers pricing, translation accuracy, and how we keep up as languages change.
CaptionX on LarryJordan.comLarry Jordan interviewed me about captioning in the languages other tools ignore
Larry Jordan has been teaching video editors for decades, and his site is one of the places working editors actually go to figure out what is worth their time. This week he published a full interview with me about why I built CaptionX in the first place — and, more usefully, when you should just use Premiere's built-in captions instead.
August 28, 2026|3 min read|By Jake Browne, founder of CaptionX
Key Takeaways
- Larry Jordan published a full interview with CaptionX founder Jake Browne on August 27, 2026.
- The interview covers why CaptionX started with poorly supported languages like Indonesian and Ukrainian rather than English.
- It also covers the honest answer to when Premiere's native captions are enough — and when they are not.
- On privacy: audio is not stored and not used to train models.
“Earlier this week, Jake Browne wrote to introduce CaptionX for Premiere. Since Premiere already does captions, I asked him why he bothered to create this. His answer was so interesting, I turned it into an interview.”
Larry: Why should someone buy CaptionX? Premiere does captions already.
Jake: Where CaptionX is different comes down to two things: languages and styling.
Larry: Are there any cases where using Premiere’s native captions are sufficient?
Jake: Honestly, yes. If you’re doing a quick, simple caption job in English, one language, straightforward styling, Premiere’s native captions are perfectly fine. Where CaptionX earns its place is the moment you step outside that: working across languages, needing one of the many Premiere doesn’t cover, translating, or wanting animated and styled captions rather than plain ones.
Larry: Are your translations handled locally or in the cloud?
Jake: The providers we use are explicitly instructed not to train their models on your data, which is a setting we’ve actively turned off, and we don’t store your audio at all. It’s sent, used only to generate the captions, and then discarded. Nothing is retained or reused.
Larry: What questions should I have asked that I did not?
Jake: Most caption tools are English-first, with other languages an afterthought. We started the opposite way, with languages that were poorly supported everywhere, like Indonesian and Ukrainian, because those creators had bad options.
Read the full interview
CaptionX – Caption in More Languages with More Options for Adobe Premiere — by Larry Jordan, published August 27, 2026 on LarryJordan.com.
Read it on LarryJordan.comTry it yourself
CaptionX generates animated captions and standard subtitles directly on your Premiere Pro timeline, and there is a browser version if you do not edit in Premiere. The free plan does not ask for a card.