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How to insert caption item / move multiple caption items? (Premiere Pro 14.9 and earlier)

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March 29, 2018
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Hi!
Imagine this situation, some movie is ready, including all captions. Then, out of nowhere, someone claims that a particular scene or clip is missing in the whole movie. Inserting the missing clip, adjusting the music can be done in just a few minutes. However, I was unable to figure out how to shift/move around multiple (closed) caption items. I can move single items by dragging them on the timeline, but how do I insert a caption item and shift all the following caption items to match the new time code of the modified video track? I was unable to figure out how I can select multiple items and move those along the time line together.

I'm sure there is a way to accoplish this, can someone please tell me how?

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Correct answer BottledLightsPhotography

Sorry but that's just botch. That way I'd have to deal with multiple tracks, copy & pasting contents between those is even more difficult.

To all those facing similar issues:

I ended up adding captions with the free tool Subtitle Edit. It even auto calculates the duration a single caption should be displayed. It was way faster and far more comfortable than Adobe's flimsy solution.

See:
Subtitle Edit

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iena0D4D

Participant

You can see in this video how to move multiple caption items: How to move multiple captions in Premiere Pro

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default4kvwvjc6gahg

Participant

I finally figured out why the clip sometimes snaps forward when attempting to trim forward! You have to make sure the caption clip extends to THE END OF THE SEQUENCE! When you insert captions, the clip usually stops when the captions stop. Trim the clip forwar first at the end, then go back and edit your captions.

lvankann

Participant

Hey, if you are on Mac and need to shift your Captions backward / forward, which is not possible in Premiere Pro (the ripple tool trick causes a bug on some systems), just download "Subtitle Edit Pro" from App Store and use the "adjust TC" function.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

diana81922,

The trick for you will be exporting your modified caption stream. Make sure you have backups.

Select the SEQUENCE in the Project Panel. File -> Export -> Captions. The export will have the timings from the sequence. Import back to PR and use that new stream rather than the old one.

If you cut and removed part of the caption stream, you may be ready for the export. If not, cut the part of the caption stream you no longer need.

Stan

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ahmedJo0o

Participant

If you hold cmd/control while dragging out the end of a caption it ripple shifts all the captions after it. So you can do this for the size space you need then bring the one caption back down to size and insert the new captions in the space.

AhmedJoo

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claytonb69055831

Participating Frequently

Oh my god, you just saved the day! I had to move an entire documentary's worth of captions and was unable to figure out how to do it, since the timecode of each caption doesn't change if you simply slide the caption track along. Ripple shifting the captions was EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you!!

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deeeeeeeee

Known Participant

ahh what a shame, finally the captions can be made to look o.k., but make one edit in your timeline and you have a timing mess!!! it's possible to select more subtitles, but then you can't drag them, what a pain......

why not make it possible to cut the caption track, just like any other video, and then be able to combine them together again, with the timing points of the sequence/timeline? that should be quite easy to program.

so either multi-select and drag ("rubber band" please, not select each individually with mouse), or cut the track as desired and then weld/combine again with good timing. that would be superb and make this a very good subtitle editing tool too.

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Felixvon

Participant

I think I've got a fix for this. If you hold cmd/control while dragging out the end of a caption it ripple shifts all the captions after it. So you can do this for the size space you need then bring the one caption back down to size and insert the new captions in the space.

Voila!

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Felixvon

Participant

Word of warning, Premiere doesn't seem to like rendering any changes like this to captions. To make any changes take effect I'm having to save, quit and relaunch every time. Pretty fun.

BottledLightsPhotographyAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Sorry but that's just botch. That way I'd have to deal with multiple tracks, copy & pasting contents between those is even more difficult.

To all those facing similar issues:

I ended up adding captions with the free tool Subtitle Edit. It even auto calculates the duration a single caption should be displayed. It was way faster and far more comfortable than Adobe's flimsy solution.

See:
Subtitle Edit

adobebp73840461

Participating Frequently

I had a very similar issue occur not too long ago. From what I can ascertain - you can't. Which is a horrible tease and egregious oversight on Adobe's part. You can highlight multiple captions so you'd think you should be able to shift them around. You can even hold down modifier keys and see the cursor change icons to show a slide and ripple tool, but it does nothing. If I run into anything good I will post it here.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

Why can't you place a cut in the caption clip, drag over the remainder of the caption clip to make room, and then add a new caption clip to the sequence?

Start with this: