Editing captions

Subtext is built for fast, word-level fixes. Everything is a click or a keystroke away, and every change is undoable.

Selecting and navigating

Single-click a line — moves Premiere’s playhead to that caption, so you can see it in context.
↑ / ↓ — walk the selection through the captions; the playhead follows along.
Enter — edit the selected line.
F — flag the selected line for review.

Editing text

Double-click a word — edit just that word. Press Enter to commit or Esc to cancel.
Double-click the empty area of a line — edit the whole line as one field.

Splitting and merging lines

While editing a word, press Space to split the line into two captions at the caret.
Click a “/” between words to split the line exactly there.
The trailing “/” at the end of a line merges it with the next line.

Splitting divides the caption’s time range at the split point; merging joins the ranges. This lets you fix badly-broken auto-generated lines without touching timecodes by hand.

Adding and deleting

Add a new caption anywhere in the list.
Delete any line. Emptying a line’s text also deletes it.

Undo and redo

Every edit is undoable with Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y. Work is also auto-saved continuously — see History.