The new Captions/Text tool on Premiere 15.0 is a huge improvement to the old workflow which was very buggy. I'm impressed with the quality of the Transcript in French, which recognizes 95% of the words correctly (even names). A big thanks to the team who developed it !

But working with subtitles every day, we saw that it also slowed us down on certain aspects which are very frustrating.
Here is some suggested UX improvements by priority :

1 - Make the formatting of the text the same between "edit mode" and "view mode".

In the current tool, you have to double-click each caption to enter "edit mode" which changes the aspect of the text. So when you see an error, and double-click on it, the word you were looking for is often shifted on a new line below. Having the same formatting and removing the need of double-clicking each subtitles would be a huge time-saver.

2 - Making the « Merge » tool more powerful.

The « transcript » method often creates little sections of words, requiring to « merge » multiple lines by hand if you want to have more content on each caption. The merge tool is great for this, but would be a lot more efficient if you add a shortcut to it.
Another thing which is frustrating with it is the fact that you cannot merge the subtitle in a new line below it (creating sometimes huge horizontal subtitles lines). It would be great to have the option to merge the subtitle into a new line by clicking Ctrl/Cmd + the merge icon.

3 - Please, pleaaase let us disable the « auto-scrolling »

I understand the interest of the auto-scroll feature when playing your video. But when subtitling all-day, this feature becomes a real pain (not joking), sometimes activating after you clicked on a subtitle, sometimes scrolling all across the screen without you asking, and sometimes jitterring for no reason. Please just let use disable it (or disable when in « edit mode », because it is actually convinient when watching your video) in the three dots menu in the « Text » panel.

4 - (Bug) Let us « unselect » subtitle.

This is more a bug than a feature, but when you select multiple subtitles (with Maj) you cannot « unselect » them by clicking on a previous subtitle.

5 - (Bug) Sometimes, your edit simply does not apply

It’s all in the title, sometimes, you click on the next subtitles, and the previous line you edited reverts back.

For all theses issues, using MacOS Big Sur on a MacBook Pro 15 with Adobe Premiere Pro 15.1.

Again, these are UX improvements we saw while using the tool, but the most of the changes with the new workflow are amazing ! The fact that there is a proper « subtitle track », the quality of the transcripts, and the « global style » is very much welcome. Theses remarks are just ideas to push this tool further.

so there's the new captions workspace which makes making captions a lot easier but you can't add transitions and effects and stuff to those captions and you can't animate them either so I think being able to add transitions and effects and being able to animate the text in effect controls would make the new caption thing a lot better.
also please add a speech to text thing it would make life a lot easier. I know speech to text is still in beta testing but it seems to work pretty great from what I've seen from youtube videos (I can't test it myself still waiting to see if I got approved into the program or not) but I think releasing speech to text to the public would be great and you can continue updating it once you've improved it.

This is either a bug or a not-fully-baked feature: If you add an apostrophe to a 608 caption using the title tool in the canvas, it places a curly apostrophe and then renders incorrectly in the caption stream (as a box character). You have to instead type the apostrophe in the Text panel, where it will insert a straight apostrophe that renders correctly in the caption stream. Apparently curly apostrophes are unsupported in 608 CCs, and the Text panel knows this but the Text Tool doesn't.

Perhaps this is intentional and the goal is to allow curly apostrophes in open captions and supported CC streams, but at the very least Premiere needs to "clean" these characters with appropriate substitutes at the point of writing the CC stream on export.

What would make even more sense to me is for the Canvas text tool and the Text panel to behave exactly the same way, and for both to instantly swap out illegal characters for a particular type of caption stream. That way everything is WYSIWYG.

Hello, I'm using the new ver15 and I'm wondering how to export closed captions. I have applied my captions, one is CEA-608 and the other 708, they are on caption track 1 and 2. If the eyeball is enabled on their track I see them as open captions in my pgm monitor, I also see them as normal captions on my pgm monitor (not sure how to disable/enable cc on my pgm monitor yet, but that's a separate issue).

My problem is when I export and I choose 'embed captions' in my MXF file, no captions are exported. This worked fine in ver14, so I don't know what change I need to make in ver15. The sidecar file works fine, it's just when I try to embed the captions in my exported video.

I'm on a MAC