I see lot of updates on automatic caption system but I don't see single comments about fixing problems of caption system itself... I really want to use your latest, cutting-edge technology but the fundamental system itself has a flaw so I'm just waiting for this basic update.

I recently had a major project with bi-lingual subtitles : showing two languages simultaneously, one English and one in a non-Roman script. It was very difficult exercise to enter two languages and two script types as subtitles and manage consistency. Further If I want to show just one language I have to create new subtitles : very frustrating and time consuming. Please provide a solution!

Good evening Francis,

could we be sure that you have seen and read all the additional information and requests, or even proposals below... (the answer to the initial post having not changed since April 16, 2021)?

Unless you expect something else from all of us of course...

This feature is important in multi-lingual countries like South Africa where people use multiple languages and one speaker might switch between languages. Having more than one caption track on at the same time allows multiple languages to have the same status on a tv programme broadcast on a national channel, so it is political, and particularly resists the dominance of only having colonial languages in subtitles. Instead it celebrates the ideal of equal status of languages, while also allowing editors to style different language subtitles differently, so that people would find reading the relevant language subtitles easier.

Gonna echo this... Like Bryan said, why not just make a warning when exporting? There are tons of use-case scenarios where having multiple subtitle tracks visible at the same time is needed... honestly, kind of dumb to remove the option, why not just make it an extra click or two or an "opt-in" so users understand that 2+ tracks are now visible at the same time.

Gonna have to maybe do Bryan's workaround to get this current video done...

Also, this was originally brought up in March '21 and has 107 comments at the time of my comment, has any action been taken? Is this low-priority? The feature was already there previously, is it hard to roll it back? The more flexible the program is, there better experience for everyone using it.

I appreciate how much captions have improved, so major kudos to that, but please bring back more than one visible subtitle track, or allow for burn-in text tracks specifically for situations like these

I need this feature to designate two different speakers going back and forth, each with their own subtitle style.

For anyone desperate--the janky workaround I've come up with is exporting a ProRes 4444 with alpha for the subtitle track and then laying it in the video for the extra tracks that Adobe won't let me export. Not convenient because any change to timing messes up the whole thing.

Adobe please... why give us the ability to create different styles of subtitles, lay in multiple tracks of subtitles in our timelines and then NOT allow us to export multiple of them at the same time. If it really is a "design" feature to prevent incorrectly burned subtitles, can't we just have a warning message during export or an advanced setting that allows multiple burn-ins?! Please... please... this is a standard expectation on a lot of Social content for Instagram and Tik Tok.

is there any update on this? Or workaround? I need to create training material with several different languages.

The new system for subbing is 1,000% better than previously but I really need to be able to add a second independent track. For example, when people are talking and there is a sign or a store name in the frame that must be independent of the dialogue. At the moment I'm forced to do this "second track" as a graphic but it's just a workaround.

I REALLY need this feature back for my documentary film work, please. I couldn't believe it when I found out I can't have multiple captions at once on different time schedules. If apps like TikTok can, how come not Adobe?
Please resolve. Thank you.

"Multiple speakers:
If we could automatically identify speakers and designate a style associated with them, would that help? For example speaker 1 is blue and on the left, speaker 2 is yellow and on the right?"

Honestly, it would help a ton if you were able to just add speaker labels to the subtitles to identify speakers. You have that in the transcript, why isn't it an option for the subtitles as well?

The reason I found this thread is because, since adding speaker names isn't a thing in the captions, I was trying to format speaker #1's captions to be on the left and speaker #2's on the right, since that's where they are on the screen. But a whole lot of issues would be solved by giving us the option of letting the speaker names come over with the conversion from transcript to captions.

It's been 8 months and 26 days since "we really are listening :)", with no reply since then!

Please for the love of God, change it back, we aren't babies who need step by step guidance on how to do things

billingual burnt in subtitles is a very common deliverable requirement..... especially in movie theatres in countries where there is more than just 1 main language. which is like most places!!

"We specifically limit the visibility to one track at a time to avoid accidentally burning in multiple tracks" If we accidentally do it , we will correct it. Let us have the choice and stop patternizing us.

I also really hope that this issue will be fixed. I was really useful especially for multiple languages.

Multiple speakers:
If we could automatically identify speakers and designate a style associated with them, would that help? For example speaker 1 is blue and on the left, speaker 2 is yellow and on the right?

This would be perfect for a lot of projects that i do :-)

It is definitely necessary to have multiple subtitle tracks visible at the same time. This is very frustrating.

This really needs to be fixed as there is no other ways to applly different styles on different speakers.
I don't know why the seperate speakers function exist in auto transcript.
At least we need some ways to convert caption track into video track without rendering whole video length. I think the whole caption track function is still in beta testing stage. Lacking too much basic functionalities.

I have also been waiting for this to be fixed as I have the same issue @JP Avila. I was hoping they would release the fix for the 2022 version but have not. Huge bummer!

Good questions Francis. The Multiple Speaker color option could be useful for me as long as I have the option to change the colors to meet ADA standards and branding style guides.

Multiple languages are a high priority for the work I do. Being able to have both visible at the same time and to burn them at the same time is important. I can understand the reason for not being able to export multiple SRT files, but to not be able to see multiple captioning layers feels a step too far.

This is just own experience and opinion and would continue to encourage my fellow posters on this thread to continue to share their insight on your questions.

Thank you for listening, Francis.