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June 21, 2021
Question

Modify Captions Greyed Out HELP!

  • June 21, 2021
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My captions are getting cut off, when I try to go a modify the captions that option is greyed out.

What do I do?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2021

Ah; I see - the Project Panel icon view for srt in PR 2021 is the Filename and Pr symbol.

 

In PR 2021, you cannot use "Modify" on a caption file. 

 

If you are importing the srt and then applying it to a caption track, do it the other way around: go to the sequence you want to use, go to the Captions workspace, or just open the Text Panel, and use the "Import captions from file" button. There are no settings that you can access, and I have assumed that the caption track is set to the sequence. I do not know this for a fact.

 

Your file name appears to be closed captions. I think it is more likely that you are simply running into the character limits for closed captions - 32/42 per line. 

 

Stan

 

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2021

What do you have selected in the project panel?

 

The "PR" image in the Closed Caption Item seems odd.

 

I assume you are working in PR 2020 or earlier.

 

The modify option may not help unless you have the wrong pixel size. But closed captions are very limited on how many characters fit on a line.

 

Stan

 

Participating Frequently
June 21, 2021

It's the .Srt file I imported for the captions.

 

I'm using the latest CC, I think it's the wrong pixel size but I don't know how to change it.