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Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
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Move Captions to the bottom of the screen

  • January 24, 2023
  • 147 replies
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It would be useful to be able to move the captions all the way to the bottom of the screen.

147 replies

Russ Lickteig
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Can you give us an update as to when you think you might defeat this restriction or remove the safeguard altogether? A LOT of people in my organization would start using Premiere Pro day one for captioning if this happens!
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Can we AT LEAST get another response from Adobe about this suggestion? It's ridiculous that there has been no acknowledging the amount of feedback that has been given. FIFTY FIVE COMMENTS, all of which are in support of removing the restriction.
Not to mention, if 100% of the comments are in support of removing it, there's no doubt many many more users not involved in this conversation that are wanting the restriction removed too.
Every time I get an email about comments made on this thread, and others, that are just people literally begging Adobe to even acknowledge their feedback about something, it makes me lose even more faith in the company (not that I have much at this point anyway, but.)
Participant
January 24, 2023
@Francis Crossman Yes. I also attached a screenshot of my current workflow. Even shared a recording explaining why do we need this change. It would be great if this change is made at the earliest. Many thanks!
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Please give us back the creative freedom! We have projects with a special display situation where we can control the screen visibility. For that our customer requires us to move the subtitles to the very edge of the screen.
We can do it with all other essential graphics elements. So why not with subtitles?
As soon as you enter a position value >0 it would be ok if Premiere gives a warning, but lets you proceed. Or you could add a "restrict to safe margins" checkbox that we can uncheck if needed.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Yes, please remove the limitations, as they are out of date and only aply to broadcast. (and everyone who works for broadcast should know what they are doing)

Thank you!
Participant
January 24, 2023
Please remove it as soon as possible. Safe margins are nice for orientation but they should never limit the freedom of creativity. Right now it may be suitable for broadcast editors but for almost everyone else the caption tool is utterly useless.
While we're at it: please let me toggle on two subtitle tracks simultaneously. I don't want Premiere to decide stuff like this for me. As a rule of thumb: Options are always better!
luhtasa
Participant
January 24, 2023
Keeping captions and subtitles within safe margins derives from broadcast type situations. Then again in broadcast there is usually completely separate workflows for captioning and subtitles. I suspect majority of captioning and subtitling done in Premiere is made for different social media platforms and there a hard limit of 10% to safe margins does not make sense. Please let editors decide for themselves. Maybe you can add a checkbox for broadcast users to enable the hard stops at safe margins.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Safe margins are mostly a legacy TV standard based on CRT screens. For social media these restrictions do not make sense as you use almost the totality of the frame. I agree with other users, set ir by default but let users change it at will to fit their workflow. I my case to fit a client's template I had to export the subtitles and then paste them back as a video file just to be able to position it slightly lower. far from ideal.
Jim5C97Author
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
It's been almost 4 months since Francis Crossman, Sr. Product Manager, Adobe DVA posted his explanation of this restriction and asked for our opinions. 100% of the opinions expressed here have asked for the position restriction to be removed.

We have not heard from Francis since...why?
ankitj97706352
Participant
January 24, 2023
This is a terrible limitation. I want a subtitle all the way to the left and I am unable to position it there. Please remove this limitation.