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August 29, 2023
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Closed Captioning Sidecar Formatting Issues

  • August 29, 2023
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Hi,

 

At my organization, we work with caption files for television broadcasting. We're currently experimenting with using Premiere Pro to generate those captions for our workflow, however we've run into some issues with doing so. Whenever we attempt to export a sidecar file with our formatted closed captions, the exported file does not keep the formatting of the captions that we set before exporting, but only the text in the default Premiere format is displayed. Does anyone know why it may be doing that? Is there a workaround or solution to this problem?

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Stan Jones
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August 30, 2023

@Bo AWM,

 

The answer to your direct question is that you are probably exporting SRT as the sidecar, and the PR SRT export, even with "styling" selected, carries very little styling. Other sidecar options from PR carry some, but they are designed for closed captioning, and those options are limited, as you would expect.

 

For Broadcast closed captions, the devil is in the details. Is your ultimate goal to embed captions via PR? Are you delivering a sidecar for the broadcaster? Provide some more info, and I can provide some suggestions.

 

Stan