The captioning system in premiere pro is average but could be so much better. In a perfect world, I would love to be able to put down a caption track and extend it through my timeline and have Adobe Sensei go through it and automatically transcribe the video and then place the transcriptions throughout the project. I do subtitles so much more than I used to considering that most content online doesn't play without audio and is necessary also for the hard of hearing, its fundamentally important in todays society to have a better solution to be able to provide this to customers.

Hello.

We are providing live closed captions for hundreds of our live sports broadcasts. All these broadcasts are encoded H.264 and transmitted using RTMP. At the end of each broadcast, we're like to take our H.264 recording, and edit it in Premiere. Unfortunately, Premiere does not appear to support embedded captions in H.264 import or export. That's unfortunate, since this is now industry standard. I can take my H.264 file with embedded captions and upload it to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and others, and the captions remain without any issues. Adobe Premiere is the only issue in this chain, which is slowing down the work flow.
I understand that Premiere supports QuickTime files with embedded captions, but that doesn't work for large files like we have, which are 2-3 hours long. Using QuickTime with ProRes would make the files far too large. We need support for 708 and 608 embedded captions in H.264. Any way that can be supported?

Thanks.
Imry

Most of my projects require open captions for exporting, and I'm required to use my company's specific visual identity guidelines for these captions (specific font, specific background color / opacity, specific alignment). As it currently stands, I have to set all of these parameters manually for every project. It would make so much sense and save so much time to be able to store these settings as a preset.

Someone suggested I use the "import settings" button along with a "dummy" srt file to hold the settings, but doing that for open captions does not allow me to use the color picker for background color. I'm limited to the CEA-708 color palette, for some reason.

So, I guess this is a bug report and a feature request all in one. I'd be happy with the bug being fixed or the feature being added!

So far I have only seen this problem on Windows, and not OS X.

In the caption editor, Typekit fonts show up in the list of available fonts, but when you go to use them, the actual font doesn't change.

Sometimes the text simply disappears in the Program Monitor. If you revert back to a standard font set, the text reappears.

It doesn't seem to matter if you restart the program, or even the computer. Change font weights doesn't do anything either with the problem fonts.

Please note that Typekit fonts work if you use the regular Type tool, but not at all if you're using captions.

I have tried two separate Windows systems, and both are showing the exact same issue. Both have had fresh installations of the software put in place, and I have also cleared preferences on both. No luck so far.

The current Windows system that is showing this issue is:

HP ZBook Studio x360 G5
Windows 10 Pro (1809)
i7-8850H
Nvidia Quadro P1000 (430.39)
16 GB RAM
Premiere 13.1.2 (Build 9)

However this has been tested on at least two Windows systems, with the same results. Again, this problem doesn't appear to show in OS X.

If you would like me to check/test anything else, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Not all fonts seem to work with the caption tool. Fonts that might work perfectly in the standard type/text tool will simply not work when trying to use them in Open Captions.

They just don't seem to register. Although you can select the font from the drop down menu, the actual text doesn't update (note that this is not the same as the usual "captions don't update" issue.). It's as though the font doesn't exist.

I have no idea why this happens, as these same fonts work perfectly everywhere else (within Premiere, and in any other application I have tried them in.).

Any thoughts/questions/suggestions are appreciated. Again, these fonts all work when using the regular type tool.

System details are as follows:

Currently running Premiere 13.1.3, but this is still the case in 13.1.5.

Windows 10 (1903)
Intel i9-9900X
64 GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 2070 (431.36)

Under the SRT import settings, two particularly useful settings cannot be change after import: video size and line spacing.

Changing the video size after import would be highly useful as sometimes a caption may need to be repurposed for different timelines. Alternatively allowing a caption to automatically resize and adapt to different timeline resolutions would be great - that way you could have the same caption file across different timelines without needing to import it 3 times with different settings.

Secondly, line spacing cannot be changed after import. If you set the line spacing to a particular percentage in the caption import settings for the SRT open caption format and then bring this in and make further changes to the caption - the line spacing is not based on your import settings and instead is set to a default which you cannot change. The result is that you cannot match all captions to the style you want.