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Participant
January 24, 2023
Under Review

Multiple caption tracks visible for accessibility

  • January 24, 2023
  • 170 replies
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In the previous version of Premiere Pro, I was able to add multiple captions and make them visible in order to have English/Spanish on screen. But in the latest version (Version 15.0.0) only one track of captioning is available.

This makes it hard for those of us who are working on making our videos accessible to multiple audiences. Please bring back the ability to have multiple tracks of captioning visible at the same time.

170 replies

Participant
January 24, 2023
We do sometimes need to add two languages at the same time. For social media, for example, working in China, we often have to have both Chinese and English subtitles together.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
I think the consensus here between your users is that if someone is stupid enough to accidentally burn in two at the same time without meaning to, that's on them, and there's no reason to be restricting something like this as a "failsafe" when anyone who knows what they're doing doesn't need it. I second the suggestion I saw below, that if there's 2 active then give a warning to the user when they're exporting, that should be more than enough to alert someone to any possible mistake.
Completely removing or excluding a feature because some people don't know how to use it correctly is ridiculous.
(And the fact that people barely ever get a response from Adobe on these forums is equally ridiculous)
Participant
January 24, 2023
This is so useful in school for me as I deal with an environment of learners from several different countries. It's a shame we have to work around this issue.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
"Yeah no... You're doing it wrong peasants. We, at Adobe, believe we do it right and any other way of doing it is wrong. That will be 80$ per month please."
thomasy38106433
Participant
January 24, 2023
There are many ways to avoid the so-called "accidents", but out of sight out of mind method is definitely not the way forward. Please, Adobe, do not stifle the creative work of your users with your one-sided perception of how captions should be implemented.
Participant
January 24, 2023
..and I note, as I did a few weeks ago, that another apparently major revision of Premiere has appeared, still with no hint of anyone at Adobe addressing this issue.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Do you ever need to burn in both at the same time or is it just a matter of being able to see both to aid in translation and alignment?

I do educational work where I need 3 lines of captions, one in English, one in Chinese, and one in Romanization.

The nesting workaround also doesn't work for me, so I'm super bummed about this. I'm just surprised that it was disabled completely and not done in a way where you can toggle....
davidb64691355
Participant
January 24, 2023
I need multiple caption tracks because the framing is different in specific situations and it would take me ages to do them manualy. So if I could add a caption style to each track and position my subtitles accordingly it would save me tons of work.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Sometimes it is necessary to burn in multiple caption tracks in various languages or if there are different styles within one track. thank you for improving this functionality!
Participant
January 24, 2023
Being able to show multiple captions can be a great help or may be even necessary for some editors. Just give a warning before playout, that there are multiple captions enabled. Just like with offline media.
Don't remove options! Don't build limitations that can't be toggled on or off!