Duplicating open captions - making edits on duplicate shouldn't affect original
When you duplicate an open, burned in, caption, the edits you make on the duplicate affect the original. In my situation, I need to make captions in multiple languages. So if I were able to duplicate a caption, put the duplicate on a track above, and edit the new caption according to the pacing and text blacks of the original caption clip, that would save a ton of time. Instead I have to start from scratch in each language.
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Paul Canavese
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There doesn't seem to be a way to duplicate captions at all in the new captions workflow (which is otherwise nifty).
Let me share a use case for this: I primarily use Premiere Pro to create sing-along music videos for kids. That means I have to manually add the refrain lyrics, which can repeat MANY times, instead of simply copy-pasting the (properly spaced) caption segments I created the first time.
The same is true to a lesser degree for verses, as the spacing is always the same. I would copy-paste the first verse to get the proper spacing and then modify the lyrics.
To sum up, it's rather frustrating to have to manually duplicate over-and-over so much work in every song video I create. I'd love to see this added to the new captions workflow. Thanks!
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Keith Sanborn
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That's kind of odd. I have used duplicate without this problem, I believe. One work around is to export the Open captions file for the first language, then export it as a .srt file. Reimport that with a new name and you should be ok. That's what seems to work. But there is still a lot of work to be done by Adobe with the open captions and import/export and everything else.
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Paul Canavese
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There is a use case where this is particularly annoying: captioning song lyrics. I'd like to get the timing for lyrics all arranged for a verse, duplicate the verse and enter in the lyrics for the second and other verses.