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3D1T0R
3D1T0R
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March 20, 2020
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OPEN CAPTIONS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME.

  • March 20, 2020
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I need to add subtitles to a video by Monday morning but no matter what I do, the 2nd (separate) line of text is always differently aligned to the first, even when I copy paste the X/Y in the Captions window or the Position/Anchor Point in the Effects panel.  It's like they're magnets rejecting each other and I'm losing my mind over something that looked deceptively simple in the tutorial 🙂  

Thanks in advance before all my hair falls out.

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 23, 2020

Good decision. How's your hair?

 

The Caption tool takes a quality hit for burned in captions. So as long as you don't have too many captions, graphics text is a good option. There are some workarounds. For longer projects, a workflow through  After Effects scripting is one option.

 

It may not have affected the line issues you were getting, but I always prefer copy pasting from a pure text source. E.g. paste the pdf into notepad.

 

I also believe it is preferable to use a captioning tool like Subtitle Edit (free) to build the captions, then export srt for import to PR.

 

Stan

 

 

3D1T0R
3D1T0RAuthor
Participant
March 29, 2020

Thanks Stan - will try this next time I'm subtitling!  Still have some hair left 😜

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 29, 2020

Good luck!

Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 21, 2020

Not sure if we can save your hair or not! I won't be able to look at this now until morning (US east coast). So let's get some more information.

 

Open Captions or Closed?

Specific dot version of PR you are running (e.g. the latest is 2020.0.4, also written as 14.0.4).

What is your final deliverable format and type? (H.264; mxf; and TV Closed Caption, sidecar for Youtube etc, Burned in).

Are you entering the caption text to PR, or importing srt or the like?

 

Stan

3D1T0R
3D1T0RAuthor
Participant
March 23, 2020

Thanks Stan!  As it was urgent, I ended up doing the subtitles with Titles which wasn't quite as awful as I thought it would be 🙂  But I'm running version 14.0.4, deliverable format H.264 and was copy and pasting the text from a PDF straight into the Open Captions in Premiere.  

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