Right now it's a little clunky and difficult to editor captions/transcripts.

First, if I try to edit the transcript, the field box is constrained and doesn't allow me to expand the dimensions of the box. So if I want to make a change to the text, I need to click inside the box and press the down arrow button several times to get to where I want to be (and to be able to see it).

The other issue is that I can't change transcripts/captions on the fly. I have to make several clicks to stop the video, go in and click in the text field, make the change in the text, click out of it and hit play to keep going. It would be great to have less clicks to be able to just hit stop or play and change the text without having to click in several places.

First of all THANK YOU SO MUCH devs for this feature. What you have done here is an absolute dream for me, and makes my life so much easier. I have thousands of hours of video that I can now happily transcode without having to type it by hand. Thank you so much!! I can finally begin this video project that I have been putting off for years.

My goal is to create searchable databases of the speech in my videos, so it would be really helpful for me if there were an option to include the timestamps in the text files. I just mean the 00:18:17:05 - 00:18:19:02 numbers that are to the left of the transcriptions in the Transcript panel.

Then I could search for words, and see exactly where to go in the video to find those words. That would make this complex project I have in mind possible.

Thank you again, I really appreciate your hard work, I love it so much!

Thank you again,
AJ <3

Open captions are becoming increasingly popular in online video and social media, with a lot of different styles employed to make videos stand out.

For example, different colours or fonts per user, per-title animations, transitions between the titles, and unusual positions based on who is speaking.

This is not currently possible with the captioning tool, which restricts your ability to edit titles within the capabilities of the caption format you are working in.

Instead, users have to rely on third-party tools to convert a caption file to graphics or titles; or have to manually create Essential Graphics titles for each caption, unable to take advantage of the better text-entry and title timing workflow available in the caption tool or the upcoming automatic transcription feature.

Further, while some welcome changes have been made to the 2021 captioning tools, it's broken some 'workarounds' that users previously made use of to allow them to position and manipulate titles outside of the restrictions of the captioning workspace as the titles are no longer an editable 'clip'.

Having a feature to convert captions directly into Essential Graphics titles will open up the possibility for much more fine control over burned-in captions by allowing them to be edited with the Essential Graphics features on a per-title basis; while still giving users the high-speed workflow of the captioning system for the initial creation of the captions.

I would like to report a bug I just discovered in the new Premiere Pro 15.

I switched to PP version 15 to take advantage of better closed captions control in the editor. The workflow was fine and worked great until I closed the project and reopened it. Now I have two closed captions boxes overlapping each other. The box underneath is the one I created. The one on top and slightly offset is the "ghost" caption. It looks like it came from the old caption platform style. I have recreated it by starting a new blank project, importing a video clip and creating a new caption in the timeline. It looks great until I close and reopen the project. Again, I get the second box overlapping, or on top of the one I created. I ran some tests and it appears that this "ghost" box only shows up in the Program window of Premiere. I can export a video from the project and burn in the captions and only the caption I created is there. I also turned off the captions I created and the "ghost caption" does not show up in the exported video. Although it still shows up in the Program monitor in Premiere. I can even delete all captioning tracks in the timeline and the "ghost" caption still shows up in the Program monitor.
I'm working on a new iMac about 6 months old. OS - 10.15.7, 40 Gb of RAM and 8 Gb VRAM AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT graphics card.

Attached is a screenshot of the issue.

When I import an .srt file with all some of the text italicized, I see <i>...</i> tags instead of italics in the burned-in subtitles.
When there is one line of text or one word tagged it comes out as italic.
When the whole sentence is marked as italic and it's on two lines, Premiere Pro doesn't recognize the tag and displays in in Regular font
with <i>...</i> tags.

In order to display italics on both lines of text in one subtitle, each line has to be tagged <i>...</i> separately.
Please, fix the error, so when a whole block of text on two lines is marked with only one tag <i>...</i> , Premiere will understand it has to be italics.
Thanks!