Captions Premiere Pro 2021 - Not sure where to post this

Some things are vastly improved in the new workflow, and some are at this time shafted. Yea.

In general, for many users like me that only need one setup for captioning, this is a vastly improved process. In shops like yours, it certainly ain't. And for most all of us, it needs more and different options than it's got now.

So yes, give 'em feedback.

And actually, one of the best places to do so as the engineers view this as a work in process is their Public Beta forums. There's a number of threads there on this, and on that forum, the engineers DO participate.

Hi Dan,

An important change in the new caption workflow, as you point out, is that the caption Track is no longer a Video Track, and you cannot apply effects to it, such as position and opacity. A huge change and, as you, many users want their old workarounds back.

But I think you can center vertically. There are actually more controls, and the "regular" caption controls (as opposed to the video track effect controls used in the past) now allow you to get lower on the screen - 95% as opposed to pre-2021 captions 90%. In 2021, as you show in your screenshot, you actually have vertical paragraph controls - which did not exist in pre-2021 captions. BUT these work relative to the bounding box - which is not always visible.

It is addressed in the reference guide in the "change text position" section: "Change the text box size: If you want to shrink or expand the text box size you can do this through Set Horizontal Scale and Set Vertical Scale. This will affect text wrapping and paragraph align settings. You can also change the text. box size using the text box controls on the Program Monitor.” [The actual tool tip in PR 2021 is actually Set Horizontal Size, not Scale.]

Yes, that little "affect text wrapping and paragraph align settings" is big. The vertical center is the bounding box. Set your text box to the maximum size you will need - for example 3 lines. The bottom of the text/bounding box is the limit on how low you can move the captions.

FYI, for some purposes, you can next the caption sequence to burn in with additional contorl over postion, opacity, etc. See this post where I discuss options for using nesting to workaround this problem for burned in captions. But it is a workaround and will not fix many of the problems that concern you.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-workaround-nesting-to-apply-effect-controls-to-caption-track/td-p/11935335

Stan