Transcript Editor
for Adobe Premiere Pro
Your rough cut starts in the transcript. Highlight the sentences you want to keep, mark the sections you want to cut, and CaptionX assembles the edit directly in your Premiere timeline — without touching the razor tool.
- Click any word to jump to that point in the timeline
- Highlight text to select a range — mark it to cut or to keep
- Build your rough cut by reading, not by scrubbing
- Cuts apply directly to your Premiere Pro sequence
- Transcript stays in sync as you edit — linked to your captions
Get early access to Transcript Editor
Be the first to edit your Premiere Pro video directly from the transcript — no timeline scrubbing.
The rough cut is the slowest part of the edit
For long-form interviews, podcasts, and talking-head content, the rough cut is a read-and-scrub loop: read a section, find it in the timeline, mark it, move on. That process doesn't scale — a 90-minute interview becomes a 3-hour editing session before you've made a single creative decision.
Transcript-based editing flips the workflow. You read the transcript like a document, highlight what you want to cut, and your timeline reflects those decisions instantly. The rough cut becomes as fast as reading.
This is the same approach that made Descript famous — and why thousands of podcast editors have switched workflows. Transcript Editor brings it natively inside Adobe Premiere Pro, without an external application or a round-trip export.
Read the transcript
Your captions become an editable transcript in the CaptionX panel.
Select sections to cut
Click and drag to highlight sentences or phrases to remove.
Mark and apply
Mark selections as cuts. Review the full list before committing.
Timeline updates
Your Premiere timeline reflects every marked cut instantly.
Who it's built for
Any editor whose primary content is spoken-word — interview, podcast, documentary, corporate talking head.
Podcast editors
Cut a 90-minute interview to 45 minutes in the transcript. Read it, mark what goes, apply. The rough cut is done before you've touched the razor tool.
Documentary and interview editors
Find the strongest moments across hours of interview footage by reading, not scrubbing. Mark sections to keep or remove and build your paper edit directly in Premiere.
Corporate video editors
Training videos, executive interviews, and webinar recordings all benefit from transcript-first editing. Get to a clean rough cut in a fraction of the time.
Coming to CaptionX
Edit your video like a document
Transcript Editor is coming to CaptionX for Adobe Premiere Pro. Join the waitlist to be first.
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