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Lee33739546ta9m
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February 10, 2026

Captions in Adobe Premiere

  • February 10, 2026
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I’m having an issue where if I copy a chunk of a caption and then overwrite the text, the new caption copy loses all of the formatting, so I have to reapply the font settings (size and font style) which is very tedious. Please fix it. It worked a week ago. 

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      Stan Jones
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      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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      February 11, 2026

      ​@Lee33739546ta9m,

      Your terminology is fine. And thanks for providing all the detail; it is very useful.

      I doubt the specific version matters here, but it might. And this might be as much about how PR copies/pastes between captions as much as Frame.io. I tested in PR Beta 26.2.0.18, Frame.io v20260205 frameio-uxp_v1.0.12, schema 0.0.133. 

      I created a new project with a 30 second sequence, and exported a new project via Frame.io. I transcribed the clip and created captions. I shared the Frame.io sequence, logged in on another machine and added 2 comments.

      I did not apply a style in PR. My caption default is Lucida Console font, white, lower middle zone. I changed 2 captions, one to Arial, red, center zone, and another to Blue. I copied from the Frame.io comment by triple-clicking the comment and Ctrl+C. I paste to a caption by double-clicking it in Text panel/Captions tab, and Ctrl+V to paste. This did NOT change the font, color, or position of the caption.

      The paste from Frame.io brough a new line character, so the caption moved up a line. I did not find a way to copy without this.

      If I copy from an existing caption and paste to another one, it keeps the source font and color, but the destination position.

      ​@Patrick Southern,

      Are there any settings for the font used for comment entry? Does a copy operation copy without formatting? Etc.

      Stan

       

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      Lee33739546ta9mAuthor
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      February 11, 2026

      Thanks very much for looking into this Stan. Today, good for me, but annoying for you - it is behaving. I just tried again to do both things that threw up errors for me and the copy and past from Frame IO worked fine and did not overwrite or ignore the style I do have applied (Tahoma 48pt, centre and bottom-aligned). 

      My machine had two updates for Citrix and security settings forced into it, so I rebooted. And Frame.IO logged me out and I had to log back in (which happens daily) in order to perform said test. 

      But thanks again for looking into it. 
       

      Stan Jones
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      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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      February 11, 2026

      No problem. I needed to do these tests anyway, related to captions alone and to taking another spin with the latest Frame.io Beta.

      Stan

       

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      Rach McIntireCommunity Manager
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      February 10, 2026

      Hi ​@Lee33739546ta9m, 
      Thanks for submitting your bug report.  I second all of Stan’s questions.  But can you be even more specific in your method?  You are creating a new caption and pasting text into it, or you are duplicating an existing caption and pasting the text, and that loses the formatting?  Also, what changed between now and a week ago?  I hope we can help you shortly. Sorry for the pain points.

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      Lee33739546ta9mAuthor
      Participant
      February 11, 2026

      Hi Rach, I was copying text from a comment logged in Frame.IO (as I explain in a reply to Stan in the thread below). I have the Frame IO panel on the right hand side of my screen. I copied the text directly into the caption in the Text/Captions panel.

      - And sorry if the terminology isn’t spot on. I’ve been using the software for years, but I also use other competitor products too, so I know how to use them, but I don’t necessarily know all the correct terms for each part. 

      Re what’s changed - my machine is sadly daily affected by the whims of my organisation’s IT department and I have zero control over updates that are pushed onto it for Windows etc. Which is far from ideal for an editing machine. 

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      Rach McIntireCommunity Manager
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      February 11, 2026

      I completely understand the frustrations of being thwarted by IT.  If you double-click the caption and paste it into the pop-up box, does that preserve the formatting?

      Stan Jones
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      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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      February 10, 2026

      ​@Lee33739546ta9m,

      What version of PR and what OS?

      I tested in PR 26.0.0, and the copies portion of a caption pastes into another caption with the same color.

      This was without a style applied to the caption track. With a style applied, everything is the same.

      Stan

       

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      Lee33739546ta9mAuthor
      Participant
      February 10, 2026

      Version 26 build 72. OS Windows 11 Enterprise 26200.7623

      Stan Jones
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      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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      February 10, 2026

      ​@Lee33739546ta9m,

      Thanks for the info. Also Win11.

      How are you copying/pasting? For example, from and to the Program Monitor vs Text panel?

      Do you have a style applied to the caption track at any point?

      Stan

       

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