A travel video can show the right street and still send viewers to the wrong place. Before exporting, check every spoken place name against the captions and every location label against the shot it describes. Do this after the main edit, while there is still time to fix the wording.

Keep a short list beside the edit

Write down the places actually named in the film, with the spelling you intend to use and a source for each one. Start with the venue’s own information or a local authority’s map; keep a photograph of a sign as supporting context. Where several English spellings are in use, choose a consistent form without presenting other accepted transliterations as mistakes.

Listen to each name in its complete sentence. An automatic transcript may turn an unfamiliar name into ordinary English words and still look convincing on screen. The W3C guidance on automatic captions says they need checking for full accuracy. A tidy sentence is not evidence that the software heard the speaker correctly.

Mark uncertainty instead of filling it with a guess. Ask the speaker or someone familiar with the place when you cannot establish what was said. Keep a note of the agreed spelling so the same name does not change between the opening title, captions and video description.

Check the spoken name and the location label separately

If you edit in Premiere, the walkthrough for turning a checked transcript into captions covers the sequence from transcription through delivery. Correct repeated names before creating the caption blocks, then read those blocks against the audio. When captions already exist, check their actual wording rather than assuming a transcript correction has updated every finished line.

Search can help find repeated words, but review the matches individually. Two different places may share part of a name. Replacing every occurrence at once can introduce a new error further along the film, especially when the speaker compares a town with a nearby district.

A location label has a different job: it tells viewers where a shot was made. Match it to the clip, not simply to the last place mentioned in the narration. If the film cuts from a market to a hotel in another neighbourhood, a label left over the cut may wrongly identify the second scene.

Keep captions faithful to the speech. If the speaker clearly names the wrong place, deal with that error in the edit or add a clearly separate correction; silently changing only the caption leaves viewers with contradictory versions. For a translated subtitle, have a reader who knows the language check the meaning as well as the names.

Read the version your viewer will see

After a late trim, replay the affected passage from before the cut to after the next caption ends. Check the label’s arrival and departure as well as the words. The editing, caption and export sections on Premiere Pro Club can help with the relevant controls; the name list remains your reference for what the film should say.

Open the exported video and, if you are delivering a separate subtitle file, load that file too. Watch the full film, pausing on unfamiliar names and checking that each location label belongs to the picture underneath it. Finish by comparing the title and description with the same list. Viewers should be able to find the place you meant to show.