COPY/DUPLICATE A CAPTION - It would be a lot convenient to be able to copy or duplicate a sentence or a line in a closed caption item inside of itself. This will save a lot of time when we're making a lyrics caption where chorus and some verse have the same words.

CAPTION LENGTH OPTION - Most of the captions or sentences I add in my closed captions takes a long time to be read. I wish there is a way to just change the default length of a caption when you click the add a caption button. This will save me time as I will not have to stretch every caption I add to match my desired length

TRANSITION & KARAOKE VISUAL AIDS - having an option to add fade in/out transitions between captions can add some spice to my caption. Also, maybe adding a karaoke visual trigger option where we can timeframe the colour of the words to the words being said in the audio.

Selecting a certain text on a caption changes its color to default black.

I work on captions as the screenshot wherein a part of the phrase has a different color. Now, when I close it and reopen the captions and then select the color picker, while changing nothing at all, it will revert back to black. You see I have some words that are colored yellow, once I go back to those text, and then get the color picker to copy the color (because I intend to copy the color to be used in other text) the color goes back to black even if I didn't change anything.

I'm creating open captions --but you don't have a category for that.
Why can't you give us the same power and flexibility in creating these captions as you do for text in Essential graphics? I am creating subtitles and have moved from using Essential graphics to open captions so that I have the option to edit them all at once. However, as other have pointed out, we need to be able to create a style and apply it.

Also, When I create a new caption it should duplicate the style of the previous caption by default. Instead, I'm getting different placements, off center, all over the place.

And we should be able to place the captions wherever we want. Mine is restricting me to what I assume is title safe. but it's too high, especially for two line captions.

We also need to be be able to set the center of a caption to a value, regardless of if it's 1 or 2 lines. Right now the only way I can get both to be centered (without having to individually tweak each individual caption) is by creating two tracks of captions, one for 1 liners, one for 2.

I can't even read all of the reports on captions, there are so many. Clearly this portion of the software needs a lot of work.

Alternatively, you can make essential graphics editable in batches, and then we can just leave behind this terrible tool altogether.

One caption should be processed just as a standard video file.

Instead of a new "captions" file in the bin, we should create a "caption track" on the timeline.

This subtitles track would appear as some sort of "S1" track above the video tracks. It would be processed as a video file dedicated to captions, the same way you process the submix tracks for audio.

Inside the different subtitles tracks, we would be able to interact with the different subtites the way we interact with any other file in the timeline : multiple selections with shift, selection of everything after with "A", etc... without having to double click on the captions file in the timeline in order to move one subtitle at a time.

This way, we could have multiple subtitles tracks, easy to access and waaaaaay easier to manage.

The way it is now, I don't see a reason for anyone to use the captions except for "I don't have any other solution right now".

I beg you, change this as a priority.

It would really make Premiere Pro so much better. There is no need in improving the actual tool if you don't fundamentally change the way we interact with it.

It's 12:01AM and I would have been finished with my edit hours ago if it were not for the numerous bugs related to closed captions. I'll just list one here: edits in the captions are not reflected in the program monitor. I can create a new caption or change the timing of a caption, and it will not be shown when I play the video. I can delete words and the captions will not re-center themselves (okay, that's a separate bug, but worth mentioning here too). And sometimes the formatting is just completely wrong. The spacing will be too tight between lines and adjusting Line Spacing has no effect. These bugs have been in Premiere for years now from what I've read. Why are they not fixed by now?

It's 12:01AM and I would have been finished with my edit hours ago if it were not for the numerous bugs related to closed captions. I'll just list one here: edits in the captions are not reflected in the program monitor. I can create a new caption or change the timing of a caption, and it will not be shown when I play the video. I can delete words and the captions will not re-center themselves (okay, that's a separate bug, but worth mentioning here too). And sometimes the formatting is just completely wrong. The spacing will be too tight between lines and adjusting Line Spacing has no effect. These bugs have been in Premiere for years now from what I've read. Why are they not fixed by now?

There have been some significant changes - mentioned in a late release but not documented.
It would be good if Adobe would create and release DOCUMENTATION and TUTORIALS for caption functions.
We're better than we were a year ago but there is much to do. If someone at Adobe had to actually caption a sequence in order to write the documentation and create the tutorial, and then mention the GRIPES he or she will inevitably have in doing this job, we might be closer to having this be a world-class part of Premiere Pro.
At the moment it is still too much the poor country cousin to other features. With the continued need for caption creation, this should be an opportunity for Premiere to excel and grab additional market share based on this tool's excellence alone.