Quicker/more effecient way to generate captions?

Is there a way to automatically generate captions when I'm placing a new image? Right now, the only option is to either place the caption right after I place the image or to generate a caption afterwards -- there's no option to automatically place it with the image itself.
Additionally - has anyone come up with a script that allows a keyboard shorcut that generates a static caption? It would be nice if Adobe came up with these..

There's 'LabelGraphics' script create captions for all the images in your document, i test it with indesign cs6 and it work fine.
see link:
http://indesignsecrets.com/modified-script-adds-captions-from-clipboard-to-images.php

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