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.

Probably no Adobe employee will so this, since the captions are NEVER fixed, but here it goes:

Captions in Premiere is pathetic. I know, I have been using it for a few years.

Even trying to work around the bugs is impossible.

Since we cannot control the spacing of the lines between the captions I have tried this:

I duplicated the caption to have different one for the second line (for when it is needed), only to find out that both caption files are still connected.

Making changes to one, traverses to the other, regardless of them being completely different files!!!

IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!

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.

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.

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!

I used Captions to cut a video that was in a language that i do not speak. As i cut the video, i did the captions. 1:1 so as to keep the lips and the captions together. now i have a cut up caption on my video that i would like to export as its own new srt file separate from the video so that it can be toggled on/off on Youtube or Vimeo and not burnt on to the video itself, but there is no way to do that. apparently i have to make a new caption file and copy, paste, and enter time code from the cut down.