Multiple caption tracks visible for accessibility

Good evening Francis,

could we be sure that you have seen and read all the additional information and requests, or even proposals below... (the answer to the initial post having not changed since April 16, 2021)?

Unless you expect something else from all of us of course...

This feature is important in multi-lingual countries like South Africa where people use multiple languages and one speaker might switch between languages. Having more than one caption track on at the same time allows multiple languages to have the same status on a tv programme broadcast on a national channel, so it is political, and particularly resists the dominance of only having colonial languages in subtitles. Instead it celebrates the ideal of equal status of languages, while also allowing editors to style different language subtitles differently, so that people would find reading the relevant language subtitles easier.

Gonna echo this... Like Bryan said, why not just make a warning when exporting? There are tons of use-case scenarios where having multiple subtitle tracks visible at the same time is needed... honestly, kind of dumb to remove the option, why not just make it an extra click or two or an "opt-in" so users understand that 2+ tracks are now visible at the same time.

Gonna have to maybe do Bryan's workaround to get this current video done...

Also, this was originally brought up in March '21 and has 107 comments at the time of my comment, has any action been taken? Is this low-priority? The feature was already there previously, is it hard to roll it back? The more flexible the program is, there better experience for everyone using it.

I appreciate how much captions have improved, so major kudos to that, but please bring back more than one visible subtitle track, or allow for burn-in text tracks specifically for situations like these

I need this feature to designate two different speakers going back and forth, each with their own subtitle style.

For anyone desperate--the janky workaround I've come up with is exporting a ProRes 4444 with alpha for the subtitle track and then laying it in the video for the extra tracks that Adobe won't let me export. Not convenient because any change to timing messes up the whole thing.

Adobe please... why give us the ability to create different styles of subtitles, lay in multiple tracks of subtitles in our timelines and then NOT allow us to export multiple of them at the same time. If it really is a "design" feature to prevent incorrectly burned subtitles, can't we just have a warning message during export or an advanced setting that allows multiple burn-ins?! Please... please... this is a standard expectation on a lot of Social content for Instagram and Tik Tok.

is there any update on this? Or workaround? I need to create training material with several different languages.

The new system for subbing is 1,000% better than previously but I really need to be able to add a second independent track. For example, when people are talking and there is a sign or a store name in the frame that must be independent of the dialogue. At the moment I'm forced to do this "second track" as a graphic but it's just a workaround.

I REALLY need this feature back for my documentary film work, please. I couldn't believe it when I found out I can't have multiple captions at once on different time schedules. If apps like TikTok can, how come not Adobe?
Please resolve. Thank you.

"Multiple speakers:
If we could automatically identify speakers and designate a style associated with them, would that help? For example speaker 1 is blue and on the left, speaker 2 is yellow and on the right?"

Honestly, it would help a ton if you were able to just add speaker labels to the subtitles to identify speakers. You have that in the transcript, why isn't it an option for the subtitles as well?

The reason I found this thread is because, since adding speaker names isn't a thing in the captions, I was trying to format speaker #1's captions to be on the left and speaker #2's on the right, since that's where they are on the screen. But a whole lot of issues would be solved by giving us the option of letting the speaker names come over with the conversion from transcript to captions.

It's been 8 months and 26 days since "we really are listening :)", with no reply since then!

Please for the love of God, change it back, we aren't babies who need step by step guidance on how to do things