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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
I need to add song lyrics as subtitles in at least 2 languages, and I want them to have different styles. (For example, the original language has bigger text, while the English translation is smaller and italicized.) I need an easy way to have two subtitle tracks with unique styles, and burn BOTH of them to the video.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Would be nice to see both for reference and alignment, but in the case of a video where you need to reach people from two languages at once, you may want to have both languages show at the same time.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Da Vinci Resolve has enabled Subtitle Regions. Up to 4 Regions per track.

if I'm transcribing in the Adobe Suite and exporting SRTs to migrate to Resolve and edit my project in their competition's NLE for ONLY THIS REASON then I think this is an easy solve and should be TOP PRIORITY if they want to keep users in their ecosystem of programs.

I would add that being able to copy and paste each speaker/region's clip attributes to and from other captions, just like a standard clip, would be a must.


C'mon Adobe Team, us multi-speaker content editors believe in you.


Participant
January 24, 2023
Multiple speakers option as suggested above could be interesting so long as it isn't limited to one side (ie. standard flexibility is available to position the text wherever we want) but this would be a nice feature and not as important as Multiple Languages.

Multiple Languages is very important and helpful. Being able to see both at the same time while editing them (for alignment but especially translation as we are not translating word for word all the time, it is also translating the culture or expressions and their text amount does not always line up 1:1. Additionally, just the ease of being able to see the previous text to translate rather than having to continually replay and transcribe) as well as being able to burn in multiple languages. Especially for a YouTube video, being able to burn in multiple languages broadens viewership and is becoming more common - and requested - for language study purposes. Not everyone knows about the apps they have to download to view two at the same time.

And of course we are requesting this because the subtitle function in Premiere is significantly more user friendly than having to create text boxes each time. Thanks a million Adobe Team! You're awesome!
Participant
January 24, 2023
I would love the ability to have multiple caption tracks active at the same time to easily add different styles/colors for different speakers. As it is now, I have to go in and manually change each different speaker even tho the quick and simple solution is right there, but I can't have multiple caption tracks active at the same time.
Participant
January 24, 2023
That's more less the one reason I still have my AVID subscription because I often do productions with up to 10 different languages and I have to be able to manage them when it comes to subtitles.
Adobe please!
Participant
January 24, 2023
I have had the exact same issue as others, with English and Arabic. I had to encode both scripts manually into the captions and try to manage sentences manually, with no way then to manage languages separately. See my screenshots. Painful, very manual and error prone, and I can't then easily turn on or off one language or another.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Hi running into this today. I'm working on a interviews in both english and arabic. Our team speak different languages.

For collaboration and cut decision making I want to be able to burn in both english and arabic captions on the screen at the same time so that our team who speak different languages can work on this together. Hugely frustrating that I need to round trip this twice to do it.

Just let me have multiple caption tracks tracks turned on please. If someone by accident burns in multiple tracks they will notice and fix it. Or maybe even give a warning on export. idk
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Participant
January 24, 2023
Unf****believable!!! More than a year!!! Still I need to find a walkaround to burn dual language subtitles in the video...
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
@ Francis Crossman Any news about this issue ?