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aprilb33430790
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January 26, 2020
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In what instance would you need your Captions to go past the screen of your videos in Premiere Pro?

  • January 26, 2020
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Hi, I have been having this problem in Pr, have they found a solution to this? 

My issue is when creating subtitles for different version of videos for social media, for example:

Square and Vertical (where you need it to adjust to a two liner and not exit the screen)
versus
Standard and Wide (where you need the captions to stretch as a one line).

I hate it when I have to re-edit the srt file(in the Captions console) after editing them for Standard and Wide, and then re-editing them back again for re-exporting the first edit. 

 

Another problem is when I create a duplicate of the SRT file, so I could assign it to a designated sequence, it shows errors, and sometimes only 1 of them are visible (like you can only use one srt file per project. 


Note: I use a single project file for a single video and make the dimensions adjustment for each setting as a sequence. 

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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January 26, 2020

> Square and Vertical (where you need it to adjust to a two liner and not exit the screen)
versus
Standard and Wide (where you need the captions to stretch as a one line).

 

PR is not a robust caption editor. Use a third party tool to make the changes. For example, Subtitle Edit (free, my favorite) has a tool to merge shorter lines into one or to split longer lines into multiples. Tools -> Merge Short Lines and Tools -> Split Long Lines. It does the split by allowing you to set your own maximum/minimum character lengths. I have not determined whether it only allows you to split into multiple timecodes, or a single timecode with multiple lines. Check the workflow.

 

But even if you are doing the work manually, it is easier in Subtitle Edit.

 

You can export your PR work to an srt, and then work on that file in Subtitle Edit, exporting multiple files as needed.

 

If you are burning in the captions, do what I describe,then import the various srts (from Subtitle Edit) to PR.

 

> Another problem is when I create a duplicate of the SRT file, so I could assign it to a designated sequence, it shows errors, and sometimes only 1 of them are visible (like you can only use one srt file per project. 

 

Yes, for that reason, do not "duplicate" caption streams. If you start by importing an srt, just make a copy OUTSIDE of PR, then import that "duplicate" as a "new" stream.

 

Stan

 

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aprilb33430790Author
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January 30, 2020

Hi Stan, 

 

Thank you for the time, sorry but it still didn't quite answer my inquiry.

From my question "In what instance would you need your Captions to go past the screen of your videos in Premiere Pro?" 

What I meant was why didn't Adobe include that single feature. Just that one tick box or an option in the Captions panel to wordwrap, or it should've been automatically adjusted in the first place.
No need for captions  to go past the screen.

Regarding:
Use a third party tool to make the changes

Why? Just that one feature, so we won't need to open another 3rd party tool. I would accept an 3rd party extension though is there one? Because it's a pain to go back and forth outside Pr when you are in a hurry to edit just the captions. 

Regarding:
Yes, for that reason, do not "duplicate" caption streams. If you start by importing an srt, just make a copy OUTSIDE of PR, then import that "duplicate" as a "new" stream.

Yes I also did that PRIOR to posting my question, seems like Pr is only recognising 1 SRT per Sequence, doesn't matter if you use different file names or where you have saved them. 

Yes, you can import them to project but they will not show at the same time, either one or the other on the preview. The other one will appear and the other one will not be visible and sometimes vice versa. Have you tried it? Did it work for you?

In my case, if you have a different SRT for sections it won't work, like creating 1 long clip of 2 videos from 2 project file. / another example is making 2 SRTs for different languages, it doesn't work. 

I think this is a essential since Adobe is streamlinng everything. Like 1 project file for every version of 1 video. 

Note that with the different versions like square and vertical, I also need the Captions burnt in the video.

Thanks so much

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