Firestarter Captions, inside Premiere Pro

Install (Windows)

1. Close Premiere Pro.
2. Right-click the downloaded zip → Extract All… (don’t run it from inside the zip).
3. Open the extracted folder and double-click Install on Windows.cmd. If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info → Run anyway.
4. Open Premiere Pro → Window → Extensions → Firestarter Captions.

Install (Mac)

1. Close Premiere Pro and double-click the zip to unzip it.
2. Right-click Install on Mac.command → Open → Open (right-click is needed the first time because the file isn’t from the App Store).
3. Open Premiere Pro → Window → Extensions → Firestarter Captions.

How to use it

1. In the panel, press Sign in with Google. Your normal browser opens — confirm the code, then go back to Premiere.
2. Quick way: open your sequence and press Add subtitles to my timeline. The whole sequence gets subtitles on the track above your clips. To do only a part, set In and Out marks (I and O) or select the clips first. Change text, colour, size or position in the panel, then press Update subtitles in Premiere.
3. Full editor: select a clip (timeline or Project panel) and press Open the clip in the full editor for reframing, camera moves and pause cuts in a new sequence.
4. Check the captions, pick a template, set Format (9:16, 1:1, 4:5), Follow the speaker and the camera director — same as the website.
5. Go to Export → Send to Premiere. A new sequence appears in the bin Firestarter Captions:
   • camera moves are normal Scale/Position keyframes on the clip,
   • removed pauses and fillers are separate pieces on the timeline,
   • captions come as your styled template (image layer on top) and/or an editable Premiere caption track.
6. Export with your own Premiere preset as usual.

Good to know

• The panel always loads the latest Caption Studio, so new templates and fixes arrive without reinstalling.
• Your video is read from your computer. It is not uploaded for storage. Only the audio is sent for transcription.
• Caption files are saved in a folder called Firestarter Captions next to your video. Keep it there, or Premiere will show the captions as offline.
• If the framing looks too big or too small, turn off Preferences → Media → Default Media Scaling and send again.
• To uninstall, delete the folder com.raftar.captionstudio from %APPDATA%\Adobe\CEP\extensions (Windows) or ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions (Mac).