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Arne_B
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Jul 5, 2023 10:31 AM UTC
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Shortcut for closing caption box after editing

I wish there were a keyboard shortcut when you are done editing a caption box. It ruins my workflow by moving my hand over to the mouse to click outside the captions box to push the Space Bar for further playback..

Ex. cmd/control + Enter would save the caption box and make further playback with Space Bar possible.

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Alexander Riss
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
Jul 6, 2023 7:50 AM UTC

@Arne_B are you on the latest version of Premiere Pro ? (23.5?) There were some improvements around the shortcut handling very recently.

 

Just to confirm - you start playback (via space) - then stop when you want to edit - press "return" to enter edit mode - make the correction - press escape to confirm the edit - press play again to continue until you are on a word you want to edit ?

 

Best regards,

 Alexander

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Arne_B
Arne_BAuthor
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Jul 6, 2023 7:42 AM UTC

(Mac)

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Arne_B
Arne_BAuthor
Known Participant
Jul 6, 2023 7:40 AM UTC

@Alexander Riss 

@Stan Jones

I tried to use Enter to edit, but with the Text panel active, it just jumps back with playback from the start of the sequence

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Arne_B
Arne_BAuthor
Known Participant
Jul 6, 2023 7:31 AM UTC

That was what I was looking for! Thank you!

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jul 5, 2023 4:33 PM UTC

@Alexander Riss,

 

omg. I was so intent on looking at all the new shortcuts, I missed the classic. Thank you!

 

@Arne_B, Thanks for calling attention to this workflow. I see now that with focus in the Captions tab and autoscroll on, as the timeline plays, with or without a caption selected in the timeline, the caption under the playhead shows a blue bar in the Captions tab. Hitting Enter enters edit mode for that caption, even as the timeline continues to play. A quick edit can be made without even stopping playback.

 

Stan

 

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Alexander Riss
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
Jul 5, 2023 2:11 PM UTC

Thank you for your feedback!

 

In the text panel you can exit edit mode and submit changed by pressing "escape" or cancel changes via shift-"escape". Would that help your workflow? You could then go through all segments via -> return to enter edit mode -> escape to exit -> space to play -> repeat

Best regards,

 Alexander

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jul 5, 2023 2:07 PM UTC

Upvoted.

 

Many keyboard shortcuts specific to the Text Panel were added as part of the text-based editing workflow. But I do not see one that would accomplish this. And you are correct: this is a major time saver (/waster!).

 

@Kerstin Ebert @Alexander Riss Are we missing something? Is there another feature request for this already? I don't see one.

 

Stan

 

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