Tiny Imps
Keeps your work
Line breaks, timing and corrected words stay as they are.
Caption Imp Coming soon
Your captions, now karaoke
Pick a look and Caption Imp turns your Premiere captions into animated, editable text with the spoken word highlighted.
- Windows 10 / 11
- Mac coming soon
- Premiere Pro 26 · tested on 26.5.2
- English captions
How it works
- Create captions in Premiere.
- Pick a look in the Caption Imp panel.
- Click Make karaoke. One clip per caption, timed to the words.
Caption Imp $7.99 a month
$4.99 your first month, then $7.99 a month. Or every imp in the Imp Pack: $9.99 the first month, then $14.99. 7-day free trial first.
7-day free trial · No card needed · Refund within 14 days
What it does
Editable text
Premiere text on the timeline, not burned-in video.
Looks
A box behind the spoken word, or one that glides to it. Pill words, neon glow, a typing cursor, pop, stacked lines, a key word that stands out. Wide 16:9 or vertical 9:16, picked for you.
Clean re-runs
Make karaoke again and its clips update in place, no doubles. Clear removes only its own clips, for the selection or all.
By hand, or with Caption Imp
By hand in Premiere
- Make one text clip per word, or keyframe each word's colour.
- Line every one up with the word as it is spoken.
- Style the spoken word and the box behind it, one by one.
- Start again when a word changes.
With Caption Imp
- Pick a look.
- Click Make karaoke.
Why Caption Imp
- Uses your captions. Your line breaks, timing and fixed words stay. Tools that caption from scratch throw them away.
- Stays editable, stays in Premiere. Submagic, CapCut and Captions hand back burned-in video after an export and upload. Caption Imp leaves editable clips on your timeline.
- Offline. No upload, no watermark, no minute limit.
- Word highlighting, which Premiere's own captions don't have.
Requirements
- Windows 10 (1809 or later) or Windows 11
- Premiere Pro 26 (tested on 26.5.2)
- The Tiny Imps app
- Captions made in Premiere, in English
Good to know
- Step by step: guide.
- It uses the word timings from Premiere's transcript. Tested on English transcripts; other languages aren't checked on a real transcript yet.
- No SRT import and no transcription of its own.
- Save the project before running it.
- Ctrl+Z doesn't undo it; use Clear or run it again.
- No emoji. Motion plays on the timeline, not in the panel.