With social media deliverables becoming commonplace it is very common to need to convert an open-captioned film (ie for Youtube) into a 1:1 Facebook film with burned in caps. The burned-in caps options for SRT files are limited, low quality and buggy. There needs to be an option to convert all captions to an Essential Graphics template that is then itself editable on a global level (in other words all the captions can be changed together, much the same as how Master Styles work). This is not a quirk it is becoming a standard requirement and would massively help a lot of people in their day-to-day work.

I'm working with a high volume of SRT files for importing subtitles (open captions), and I currently have to manually adjust the type style every single time I do so. A couple potential solutions that would make this way more manageable:

1) Presets. There's currently no way to create/apply a style preset for captions — all SRT imports will simply default to the unchangeable default set by Premiere. This would be manageable if there were a style dropdown with the option to save presets, much like in the Export Media window.

2) Change Defaults in Preferences. There's currently nowhere in Preferences where you can choose default caption style settings for new or imported captions.

3) Copy/Paste caption attributes. The ability to copy/paste type style from one caption file to another (much like the Paste Attributes option) would be extremely helpful.

Make closed captions accessible.

The kerning on the closed captions are not accessible when the whole point of closed captions are to make the video accessible to all viewers. It's too difficult to read especially for people with Dyslexia. New UK accessibility laws are changing and we need the functionality to meet these new regulations. Please, please consider making the kerning better so it doesn't look like individual characters from an accessible point of view. If you aren't going to improve the CC then please consider adjusting your guides to be less misleading, they state you can change the fonts and colours etc when you can only do that on open captions. You even have an image with the description "displaying closed captions" using a screen shot of open captions. Very misleading.

Using Open captions.
I'm experiencing a bug when I go back to adjust the length of captions.
I need to make several long captions shorter. When I go to drag the ends of the caption to shorten or lengthen it, it disappears, setting its duration to 0, the only way I can adjust them is by dragging the time code in the Captions window. Which is slow and tedious.

I think one of the best caption tools I have seen is Youtube's captioning tools. Which highlight the captions as you scrub through, and allow you to use the space bar to split a caption in two.

Below are some featues/ bugs and suggested improvements I've come up with.

• If you add a new caption, you shouldn't have to go into the closed captions display settings and enable them just to see them. It should automatically show them when they are created and a pop up should appear when a conflicting caption is made.

• There should be a warning pop up when a frame rate requirement of the caption format doesn't match the sequence settings.

• Would be great if there were an auto caption feature.

• Default captions should be set as "open captions" and exported to ".srt" which is common supported file types for youtube and facebook.

• indicate in some way, which captions can be turned off by the viewer.

• There seems to be a minor bug with the layer duration. Must have the caption layer deselected in order to extend it's length.

• Being able to change the kind of caption after they've been created would be very helpful.

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: Accessibility is a growing need and an under exposed concern. This is an important part of Premiere Pro that needs to be improved so more people can enjoy a higher standard of video production.

Hi all,

I've now split my caption bugs into two reports. This is about the horrible edges around caption text.

Just as the title suggests, the captions have jagged, aliased edges, as opposed to smooth crisp edges. I don't get the same results when using the standard type tool, or importing PNG files, etc. This is something specially reserved for captions.

Please note that these issues occur on both Mac and PC, but I'm currently on a Windows system, so I will post the specs for this machine:

Premiere Pro 13.1.2, build 9
Windows 10 64-bit (1903)
Intel i9-9900X
64GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 2070 (431.36)
2x HP Z27 displays (3840x2160 @60Hz)

Any thoughts or ideas, please fire them through. If you require any further information, please don't hesitate to ask, and I will provide it as soon as possible.

Cheers,

Darren

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!