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Matt Young14394008
Matt Young14394008
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March 28, 2019
Question

Save open caption settings?

  • March 28, 2019
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Apologies if I'm overlooking an obvious solution, but ten minutes of googling for an answer came up with nothing useful.

I regularly have to burn in open captions on videos using specific style guidelines specified by our Brand team, including specific font, background color and background opacity.

It's a bit of a time-waster to have to tweak these parameters every time I need to include captions to a video.

Is there a way to save these settings so I can load them up when adding open captions to a project?

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      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 28, 2019

      As of PR CC 2019, there is a "Import Settings" button in the Captions panel, lower left. I do not find it in a new features section, and only know for sure that it was in by 2019.0.2.

      It allows you to override file specs for srt and stl imports. It includes 3 sections:

      - File Settings (caption standard, pixel size, timebasde, par)

      - Alignment Settings (rows, columns, anchor, text alignment, line spacing, captions area)

      - Style Settings (font family, size, color etc)

      If you are importing srt, this should work. If not, just create a dummy srt, import it, and use that for the beginning of your caption stream.

      Let us know what you find.

      Matt Young14394008
      Matt Young14394008Author
      Legend
      April 4, 2019

      I don't import srt, and I'm not sure what you mean by creating a dummy srt to use as a template.  Can you explain?

      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 4, 2019

      What specific dot version of PR are you running? Assuming some version of 2019, try this.

      Create a caption stream; just 1 caption. It does not matter what style is used.

      Select the caption stream in the Project Panel. File -> Export -> Captions. Save as .srt. (This is the "dummy" srt.)

      Now set the Import Settings in the Caption Panel for .srt, and specify what you want. Import the .srt.

      Open the srt (in the caption panel). What style settings do you see?

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