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dogthecat
dogthecat
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July 14, 2025
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* ENLARGING THE CAPTIONS TRACK *

  • July 14, 2025
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After 2 hours with Adobe, and a special "Team" of humans helping, I finally learned how to enlarge the Captions Track, which by defualt, is so tiny, I can't see the words. It makes it much harder to edit.

1) After adding your captions track (C1)

2) You have to add TWO MORE EMPTY TRACKS.   Yep

3) Drag your Timeline Window Very, Very High (like 2/3 up) and finally you'll see

4) The Little Bar (far right next to the C1,C2, C3) Which will allow you to drag / ENLARGE  C1 (captions)

5) Then you'll just have to adjust the window, tracks, etc, to get the sizes you want.

*  It's obvioulsy something Adobe hasn't thought of or fixed yet. It should be easy to do, the same as the video or audio tracks, by pulling the line up that separates the audio/video/captions track. Sample below, where you can see the words much more easily

2 replies

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 14, 2025

@dogthecat,

 

You found one of the workarounds, but we eventually learned that you DO NOT need to add empty tracks.

 

Let me clarify the options. To get the words of the caption bigger in the caption segment on the timeline, you need to increase the height of that caption track. As @Averdahl says, hover over the header of that caption track (the C1 etc area), and Alt+scroll forward. The caption will scroll up and out of sight. Now click on the CC icon and pick "Hide all caption tracks," then "Show all caption tracks." The size of the caption track area will increase to show the increased track. But it will only increase to its maximum of 25% of the timeline area.

 

See this post for more information:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/make-caption-track-height-adjustable/idc-p/13492532#M323

 

Stan

 

 

    Kevin-Monahan
    Community Manager
    Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 14, 2025

    Hi,

    I'll move this to the Ideas forum.

     

    Thanks
    Kevin

     

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
    Averdahl
    Community Expert
    AverdahlCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 14, 2025

    I can Alt-scroll the subtitle header and then either make the sequence a tad higher or adjust the divider between Video and Audio. Adjusting the divider between Video and Audio works best.

     

    But yes, it could be better. 

     

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