I have the same issue. I create videos for social media with two languages burned into the video for easy viewing (English and Persian).
Thank you for making captions simpler to use, but please allow for multiple active tracks.

I am currently having the same problem. I'm working on a project that has captions in both English and Te Reo Māori burned on the video, so I had to go back to Premiere 2020 to work on it.
I understand this is not usual practice for TV and Film, but it does happen with web videos. This project for example is focused on accessibility, so it has 2 languages with captions and NZ Sign Language.
I usually just use essential graphics with burned subtitles videos anyway, because captions in Premiere is just a nightmare to work with. But for this project in particular I was supplied with .srt files and it was just easier to deal with captions, till Premiere updated.

I am currently working on a short film with multiple languages and it will be very appreciable to burn all of subtitles in the same caption like earlier.
Instead of modify just one word (italic, color and size) as I often have to do in commercial.
Thank you

Deeply problematic for many of our bilingual projects (Spanish and English) including our current one featuring opera singers whose voices overlap while singing. Please fix this!

Our company does anime subtitling and our workflow is stuck on Final Cut 7. Adobe's design choice to prohibit multiple subtitle tracks means that we're stuck on FCP7 that much longer.

Our use-case is that we not only need to subtitle spoken dialogue, but also any incidental on-screen kanji text pertinent to the story (such as a classroom chalkboard, a road sign, a book cover, etc). Many of our clients' shows are heavy on such. We place spoken dialogue at the bottom of the screen, and the subtitle for the on-screen text appears at the top of the screen simultaneously.

On a related note, it would also be a MASSIVE boon if Adobe could provide a subtitle export format that includes a subtitle's position. SRT does not. This is extra important to us because (in addition to the above example) our clients also require us to reposition subtitles in close-up shots so that the text doesn't obscure the face or lips of the character speaking. I would suggest implementing TTML export since that is a well adopted W3C standard by now (Premiere 2020 even used something close to that within the .prproj files). And the position data doesn't need to be pixel perfect, just the basic nine-square positions is good enough.

In the meantime, our entire company remains stuck on a 12-yr old NLE because it's the only thing we've found that can do overlapping subtitles and export to a format that preserves positioning.

I work with 9 languages. Would be really nice to be able to do a sidecar export of all my languages as an SRT at once instead of having to go back and export everything individually.

"avoid accidentally burning in multiple tracks" really? Sorry I thought PremierePro was a professional program made for professionals who can manage more than one track and decide what to render. We need multiple caption tracks for many reasons as other fellows comment. Multiple lenguajes burned in, multiple speakers, align different captions to the frame... and because I'm a professional and I think I can handle it, thank you

Ditto on multiple language, multiple speakers, and adding multiple still formats that need captions... Fortunately for me I'm still completing the final project in iMovie, so I exported it three times with three different caption Styles, and then spliced it together. Frustating.

Just started using Premiere and this is currently what's holding me up. How has this not been fixed yet lmfao.

This is really frustrating, I can't understand why you should decide for us after it was possible in the version before.
Multiple subtitles are necessary for multiple languages. For example in Switzerland english speaking movies are subtitled in french and german.

Really frustrating after creating two tracks and realising you can't export both. Need to deliver for a client today...

I second that, I want to make that choice when I need to. Thank you

I have to chime in here, I really need to be able to have 2 tracks visible at the same time. I'm a professional, please treat me as such and don't baby me. I can make my own mistakes and learn from them myself thank you very much

Kind of weird isn't it? Why bother giving us the eye icon for visibility (giving me control) if you're going to essentially auto-disable the other one (taking away my control)?

Let the mistake making happen in my hands. If I publish a video with two tracks burned in it's my fault (or maybe I want it that way). You never babied us Adobe, don't start now! This is incredibly un-intuitive :(

It seems like a pretty unanimous vote that people want this option, Adobe.

Very common in places like Taiwan to have both Chinese and English on the screen. So yes, please make both tracks visible.

Alternatively, it would be great if two different languages on two lines in the same track could be edited separately, for instance different fonts and font size. This was possible in the old system.

It's still possible to copy and paste different a different font from a second track, keeping the formatting, but that is cumbersome.

Just throwing my hat in the ring for the necessity of this feature. If the worry is preventing people from burning in two tracks by mistake, couldn't that be solved with a checklist dialogue box? As in, check next to which tracks you want to burn in? Thanks!

I am among those who greatly needs to be able to have more than one track visible at the same time. In working with foreign languages, this is really indispensable, as people have been underscoring.
Can a distinction be made between active tracks (only one at a time for export) and visible tracks (multiple)?
My preference would be to be able to burn in two tracks at the same time, if needed, but my most pressing need is to be able to have more than one track visible at the same time.

Thanks, and thanks for the great improvements to the captions workflow!

I also would very much like the ability to have the resizing capability for caption tracks we had in previous versions. I personally need to caption almost all projects in 12 languages and to now make sure all my timing is correct, as well as still see my native language for reference is now severely hindered. My work flow and production is being limited and is making me hate my job - please Adobe fix this.

I can't add much more as John H and Pierre B have explained most of what I need. I just wanted to add my voice to the request for multiple layers.

And no, anything ‘auto’ about placing captions would likely not be useful. For my use the timing, placement and style of the captions are pretty critical. I would prefer a fairly simple – I hope – ‘switch multiple tracks on’ button, rather than rely on an auto system.

There is also the problem with all my previous projects, they aren’t so much broken as useless.

I had to go back to one project after upgrading and it was impossible to output it without remaking the subtitle tracks. Luckily I still had 14.x on a machine which saved the day. So an option to revert to old behaviors would be good – not least because all the different layers appear in the new project, suggesting that the system sees them.

Without wanting to sound snide I'm curious about the thought process that led to removing multiple layer output (note: NOT multiple layers, just the output) *without* giving the option to reverse that - and I totally understand how this would be a non-default option, but I'm at a loss to understand the lack of a switch.

So, I support the 'force show' keystroke as suggested by Pierre - it could even be labelled 'The Pierre option'. (Just a thought.)

Thanks for the opportunity for the conversation.