Making captions appear on-screen all the time

Anton, I understand what you are trying to do. And you can do it by manually extending each preceding caption to the beginning of the next. And yes, you are right, that would be no fun!

But it is contrary to the common specifications for captions, and I do not see a function in third party apps (e.g. my favorite Subtitle Edit) that would adjust for this. They are all about the length of the gap, not eliminating it when there should be one.

Kevin, the "Gap between captions (frames)" is really a minimum. When there is no gap (i.e. a zero frame "gap"), PR makes the ending timecode the same as the next beginning timecode. Technically this is "overlapping" timecode, but Premiere Pro (and I think many other apps) are happy with it. But setting that to zero does not prevent PR from making gaps where there is, in fact, silence.

Anton, I assume you have an .srt file from Descriptive. I would do a search and replace/macro in something (e.g. notepad++) and change so that each ending timecode is made to equal the beginning timecode of the next caption. I would use searches for the blank line between captions (new caption + one line gets you to the beginning timecode of the next caption), two spaces after the "-->" in the caption before is the ending timecode to be replaced by that "beginning" timecode, repeat to end of file.

Then import that changed .srt to PR instead of the original.

Stan

If its just for being able to read the text use the TEXT panel.