Move Captions to the bottom of the screen

My Crossman...it's been eight months since you asked us our opinion on removing this safeguard. Will this be happening? Would really be helpful to me and apparently everyone else here. Thanks!

Still no change in this limitation, even on the newest v22.1.1 which touts a “revamped” text engine.

Remove the safegaurd altogether, and just make the "within safe margins" as the default position. But remove the safegaurd. That way we can move them lower if we want.

Let's be honest here, doesn't matter which approach you take, you need to provide us this option again. Whether we can just move the captions, or whether we have to check a box to be able to move the captions.
Really we just need to option to move them somehow.

I think an option to disable the restriction would be fine, just having the option to move them at least to action-safe will be super useful for me

It would be very useful for those of us not working in broadcast. If you are delivering to screens in a public facing environment, like a museum, then we know where the 'bottom' of the screen is. It would be extremely useful to be able to move the captions right to the bottom. Many thanks.

Just another voice added to the chorus, here. Please give us the ability to align captions by pixel and to move it out of the action safe/title safe margins.

To those asking, Dan j Francis's comment below is the current workaround and I can confirm that it works fine. Basically put your captions sequence as a layer on top of everything else inside your edit sequence and then you can move it around like most layers using the Effect Controls panel.

Okay, since Adobe doesn't seem to care or have the integrity to respond to everyone who has commented that the new system kills workflow, I have a work around that is working well for us that I will share.
Treat your captions like a composition rather than making it a part of your timeline.
What I mean by this is duplicate whatever comp you are captioning.
Name the duplicate captions.
Do all your transcribing and make the captions in the captions composition.
When done turn off all video and audio in the composition with the captions.
Bring the composition with the captions back into the original comp, unlink, and delete the audio track.
Now you can move the captions composition around like a layer and put them wherever is desired.

This of course is a work-around, but as we know when Adobe drops the ball and fumbles, it can take them a long time to fix the issue and often they just ignore it, like they are doing now, so it is up to us to bypass their system and come up with ways to make things work.. and this is my best solution to date.
Happy editing everyone! Let's hope Adobe soon acknowledges their mistake and work on fixing it ASAP. Captions need to function as a layer, not as a stationary timeline.

Literally astonished that I found this thread. Wtf were you guys thinking?

Please remove the restrictions of placing subtitles lower than the safe margins, or implement an option so we can do so ourselves. So frustrating!

This restriction is unhelpful and removes a function that was previsouly easy to do in Essential Graphics. Safe margins have two functions; one to prevent issues caused by old brooadcast standards and two, for aesthetic purposes. The former no longer applies in 99% of use cases, and the latter is something the artist can decide for themselves.

If you want to keep the feature for noobs, then it's as simple as checkbox in the EG panel saying 'Enable Safe Margin Restriction' and job done. Please, please remove the restriction.

There are many cases where we may want text right at the edge of the screen, aesthetically pleasing or not.