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 modifying/editing captions on Premiere Pro, in order to avoid timing being out of sync during ingest on YouTube.com, a blank “bumper” caption must be added to the top of all caption sequences. This is only needed for .scc caption files as .srt seems to have no issues with maintaining the timing for each caption set by the captioner. It would be convenient to stick to .srt as the standard captioning file, however specific formatting that occasionally must be used (top-placing captions, italics, etc) are lost in .srt when uploading to YouTube.com. The metadata tags are translated incorrectly and odd characters can appear with .srt files on YouTube.com. So our team must fall back onto .scc.

In Premiere Pro, is there a function that I the captioner am otherwise unaware of that would protect the timing of a caption file as well as its formatting? Using the more recent version of Premiere I have noticed the way captions are produced is more intuitive and very similar to using mogrts. Because of this I wonder if the bumper caption is still needed or if it is, there is something in the new design of the captioning tool that would allow the bumper trick to be omitted.

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A follow up style-focused question I have about the new captioning tool in regards to top-placing and bottom-placing within the captioning track. When I make a style adjustment, for example I make a caption top placed, it seems to make that change for every caption rather than just that one. It is not often needed but sometimes I do have to italicize a single word or phrase within a caption but cannot seem to do that with the new captioning tool. In the older version, top placing/italicizing specific captions and words without affecting the rest of the captions was fairly easy to do. Is this a function still available but just in a different location/or a different shortcut in the program?
In media accessibility it is very important to ensure all information is available to all viewers. There are times where a hashtag, link or disclaimer is in the lower third for a brief moment and I need to top place to avoid obscuring it but I don’t want that to force all the other captions to hang up in the top third for the rest of the video.

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!

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!

When making edits to the generated transcript, same as the captions editing annoyance is the inability to tab through sections of text. Also frustrating is that when double-clicking into a text section, the entire section is selected and not just the word that was clicked on. Making edits takes much longer when having to find the offending spelling/word (since things have now shifted) and then needing to reposition the cursor to be able to start to fix the error.

Why does the transcript need to show the timings on the side and break up the text by time? When exported the transcript doesn't show those things. Editing while having to deal with it broken up is a bit of a hassle.

Okay, so your like me and you just finished a long days edit with captions and you're about to export a large file, you know it's going to take hours to export. After all that time, you review the export and low-and-behold, no captions. YOU FORGOT TO PRESS THE TURN ON CAPTIONS BUTTON EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE CAPTIONS IN THE VIDEO! Adobe, if there are captions in the timeline being exported, the captions option in the export settings should be automatically checked. I can see why it is uncheck by default as to help the editor decide what kind of caption export they want, but nevertheless, it should be checked automatically and then decide what kind of caption export it should be. This is a small thing that has wasted hours of my time, there is enough to focus on when dealing with export settings, this is a small mundane detail that gets me everytime. Thank you!