Move Captions to the bottom of the screen

This is a feature request carried over from UserVoice, started Feb 23, 2021, soon after the introduction of the new caption workflow. When posted here on 1/24/23, it had 146 votes.

 

Francis Crossman (Sr. Product Manager, Adobe DVA) responded 4/15/21 with the response that is now here in this thread. Just now, it may appear just before the post I am writing!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/move-captions-to-the-bottom-of-the-screen/idc-p/13525066#M7242

“This is by design. We always keep captions within safe margins (10%). Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together. Opinions welcome.”

 

The PR 2021 workflow actually improved the routine positioning of captions to 5%, and in the PR 2023.1 release, the “Upgrade Caption to Graphic” was introduced. This converts captions to graphics items and moves them from the Captions Track to a video track, where they can be animated – or moved to any position on the screen. Personally, I agreed with the Adobe decision to prioritize converting captions to graphic items, since it allows animation of many kinds, in addition to positioning. Nonetheless, it is clear that users, in the social media age, want the ability to move captions to the extreme edge of the screen.

 

In my opinion, a preference for allowing full movement would be best.

 

A variety of workarounds may no longer be useful with the Upgrade Caption to Graphic. But some were discussed here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-workaround-nesting-to-apply-effect-controls-to-caption-track/td-p/11935335

 

Let the (Up)Voting begin!

 

Stan

 

Please change this restriction ASAP!

Very annoying restriction. Please remove

It should be a simple matter of allowing captions to be converted over to regular essential graphics media so that they can be manipulated as we see fit.

Please allow us to move the captions bellow the safe margin!

19 months after asking us "Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together", yet Adobe has not fixed this issue for its users. What's taking so long?

It's a total pain - I've got old videos that need revising but the subtitle is now too high - The WHOLE set of videos will now have to be recreated - What a stupid limitation causing a lot of problems.

This is critical, seeing that "safe margins" are becoming less relevant online, which is how most editors deliver video.

Y'all I love and appreciate your work. But it has been a year and a half, and this nanny setting is still inexplicably forced with no way to disable. Please, please bump this to a higher priority.

An option is fine, but a restriction makes Premiere's captioning nigh unworkable. I have to rely on third-party programs like Descript to generate my captions, because of this strange and antiquated restriction.

You don't restrict other elements the same way, so why this? If my clients don't like where I placed their captions, they won't blame Adobe. They'll blame me, their editor—same as they would if I placed footage out of frame, or made some other edit out of spec.

Please, please fix this.