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January 24, 2023
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Multiple caption tracks visible for accessibility

  • January 24, 2023
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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

andrewf42664191
Participant
January 24, 2023
Multiple caption tracks would be great!
Participant
January 24, 2023
if this was a previous feature i really wish it comes back, multiple visible captions in different languages burned in the video are extremely useful and expand the reach of content across the world. please make this a priority
ededinson
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
We need multiple Caption tracks visible! It is common in my world!
Participant
January 24, 2023
This is fxxking stupid and still not fixed in the latest version!
"it's as designed", how arrogant is that!! are you american that only speaks one language hmm? that's probably you don't listen to all your users! frustrating! "needs more info" really?? apparently you guys just don't give a **** to us.

GIVE OUR MULTIPLE SUBTITLE TRACKS VISIBILITY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Participant
January 24, 2023
This is fxxking stupid and still not fixed in the latest version!
"it's as designed", how arrogant is that!! are you american that only speaks one language hmm? that's probably why you don't understand and don't give a shit and don't listen to all your users over the world! frustrating!

GIVE OUR MULTIPLE TRACKS VISIBILITY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Participant
January 24, 2023
I also noted the new updated Premiere (which, in fact, arrived on my system a couple of nights ago when I was in the midst of working on a Premiere project--during the update there was some paralyzed functionality having to do with exporting to Media Encoder, so as a result I had to scuttle the job and restart after the update). I hoped that our issues with multiple caption tracks would have been addressed, but Chris Long is right: they were not. Selecting one caption track for display continues to disable all others.

Even if Adobe plans to continue to develop tools for single caption tracks and expanded capacity (including voice recognition "enhancements" which in my opinion will help almost only the monoglot English caption-editors out there), it is unclear to me why the code that produces, formats, and allows burning single caption tracks cannot fairly easily be recycled recursively to allow multiple caption tracks, with all the sorts of uses that have repeatedly been mentioned on this thread. This should be a relatively simple programming task, with the existing interface, just allowing what Premiere now does NOT allow, namely selecting multiple caption tracks for coding in the same project.

Some response from Adobe would be appreciated.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
So I see that Premiere has been upadated to v15.4. Any news as whether this is sorted in it? The new features list suggests some developments in the captions area, but nothing explicit about this problem.

is ANYONE from Adobe listening??? Is there no information available??
artistic_Songbird50BB
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
So many people are waiting on this fix Adobe!
Please talk to your users before removing functionality like this.
robbgoblin
Participant
January 24, 2023
Color coding various speakers would be great! Something like Matthew Ross mentioned below would be a great way to do things as well.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Still waiting for this to be fixed