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Participant
January 24, 2023
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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
billingual burnt in subtitles is a very common deliverable requirement..... especially in movie theatres in countries where there is more than just 1 main language. which is like most places!!
Participant
January 24, 2023
"We specifically limit the visibility to one track at a time to avoid accidentally burning in multiple tracks" If we accidentally do it , we will correct it. Let us have the choice and stop patternizing us.
Participant
January 24, 2023
I also really hope that this issue will be fixed. I was really useful especially for multiple languages.
Participant
January 24, 2023
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?

This would be perfect for a lot of projects that i do 🙂
Participant
January 24, 2023
It is definitely necessary to have multiple subtitle tracks visible at the same time. This is very frustrating.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
This really needs to be fixed as there is no other ways to applly different styles on different speakers.
I don't know why the seperate speakers function exist in auto transcript.
At least we need some ways to convert caption track into video track without rendering whole video length. I think the whole caption track function is still in beta testing stage. Lacking too much basic functionalities.
Participant
January 24, 2023
I have also been waiting for this to be fixed as I have the same issue @26837791. I was hoping they would release the fix for the 2022 version but have not. Huge bummer!
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Participant
January 24, 2023
Good questions Francis. The Multiple Speaker color option could be useful for me as long as I have the option to change the colors to meet ADA standards and branding style guides.

Multiple languages are a high priority for the work I do. Being able to have both visible at the same time and to burn them at the same time is important. I can understand the reason for not being able to export multiple SRT files, but to not be able to see multiple captioning layers feels a step too far.

This is just own experience and opinion and would continue to encourage my fellow posters on this thread to continue to share their insight on your questions.

Thank you for listening, Francis.
Participant
January 24, 2023
I can say for myself, i record my microphone and my friends talking on two separate tracks so that i can adjust easily when i need to if one is louder than the other. But this means that sometimes we talk over each other. When i transcribe these, i do them separately for accuracy. But now i can't have both texts on screen at the same time if we do happen to talk over one another.
Even if i merged them into one track, it doesn't seem like i am able to have two speakers up at once. One always takes precedence over the other and removes the previous bit of dialogue.

I may have missed this as an option, but I can't even seem to be able to copy this CC text into the sequence as a regular text to modify and overlap like normal typed out text.

Maybe give us a warning dialogue when adding multiple tracks of subtitles instead of just removing that option entirely? It kinda hinders the ones who are doing it purposefully because some are doing it accidentally.
Participant
January 24, 2023
It is designed to make us less convenient?