When using the new caption tool for Premiere Pro 2021 I would like to see a play & loop function for the active text segment. While transcribing it would make it so much easier and faster if the timeline looped the time of the segment. (I've seen this function in the video editing software Camtasia)
Example:
I've set a shortcut key for "add new caption segment at playhead".
When pressing the shortcut key or the +-button in the text tab, I wish it would (1) automatically add a new caption segment, (2) activate the field for typing text (in the text tab, not in the preview window) and (3) start looping the segment on the timeline. See attached picture – Suggestion 1.
(If you click the +-button, step 1 and 2 already works but the field for typing text isn't automatically activated when using the shortcut.)

If there also is possible to adjust the length of the caption segment while it keeps looping and the text field is still active, that would be even better.

I would also like to see a play & loop button in each text field in the text tab.

When using the shortcut "Edit selected caption text" the text layer is activated in the preview window instead of in the text tab.
When I'm transcribing I just write what I hear and makes the line break afterwards. I usually use CEA-708 so the limitation is 43 characters on each row. When editing the text in the preview window, everything written over 43 characters disappears. I would therefor prefer if this shortcut activated the text field in the text tab instead. See attached picture – Suggestion 2

This two suggestions would surely speed up my workflow and hopefully every other user as well.

There's also a very annoying bug in the 15.0 version. If I quit Premiere Pro and then restart it, the captions have been duplicated and there's no way to get rid of the clone. See attached picture – Bug 1. I've tried just about everything, but it's still there. There's no way to hide it, move it or delete it. If I edit the captions in the project, the cloned captions doesn't "update" until I restart the program.

The new (v15) captions are an improvement but I'd like to see the following:

1. Functionality for R-L text. Arabic appears correctly in the caption window but displays L-R in the timeline/program monitor.

2. We'd like to ditch our expensive to MacCaption but we need a way of importing translated timed transcripts into Premiere. The .srt export is great but we need some type of text file import to preserve timing in our language translations w/o having to cut and paste into each caption (or lean on MacCaption to export to .srt just to reimport into Pr).

3.Add auto import settings where a text block breaks at two lines (or a certain number of characters) into captions. This would be a huge time saver.

The new (v15) captions are an improvement but I'd like to see the following:

1. Functionality for R-L text. Arabic appears correctly in the caption window but displays L-R in the timeline/program monitor (see attached image where Arabic on lower level and in caption window is displayed correctly but not the displayed captions).

2. We'd like to ditch our expensive to MacCaption but we need a way of importing translated timed transcripts into Premiere. The .srt export is great but we need some type of text file import to preserve timing in our language translations w/o having to cut and paste into each caption (or lean on MacCaption to export to .srt just to reimport into Pr).
   3.Add auto import settings where a text block breaks at two lines (or a certain number of characters) into captions. This would be a huge time saver.

The new (v15) captions are an improvement but I'd like to see the following:

1. Functionality for R-L text. Arabic appears correctly in the caption window but displays L-R in the timeline/program monitor (see attached image where Arabic on lower level and in caption window is displayed correctly but not the displayed captions).

2. We'd like to ditch our expensive to MacCaption but we need a way of importing translated timed transcripts into Premiere. The .srt export is great but we need some type of text file import to preserve timing in our language translations w/o having to cut and paste into each caption (or lean on MacCaption to export to .srt just to reimport into Pr).
   3.Add auto import settings where a text block breaks at two lines (or a certain number of characters) into captions. This would be a huge time saver.

In the New V15 I am finding that if I make a New Cations (aka Text) file form my project the current text file does not appear as a new item in my project. What if I want several versions just like I may take a Raw clip of video and edit it several ways - each new sequence gets a new working slot in the project. The new Captions (Text files) are not automatically created. I have to export the .srt and reimport it if I want various working files.
Because you can not image why I need this does not make my need any less valid. Old captions created their own "holder" that I could duplicate and edit independently.

I like a lot about the new captions set-up. However, this arrangement assumes that I am working with only one set of Captions. I no longer have any place to look to see which set of Captions I have displayed. My name for a Captions file does not show-up anywhere in my project time line. I often have various versions going at any one time and I move captions from older ones into the Current Working version. I don't want my old versions to go away, but I need a way to know which row of captions is which. Given I was working in tis project before your Massive update I am feeling lost in many ways. Some I am catching up to - but this one detail is quite frustrating.