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Saving caption / subtitle "style" for use in other projects?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 25, 2021
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I feel like I must be missing something incredibly obvious.

My basic understanding of the new captioning system in 15.0 is that when you click "Create new caption track" in the Text pane, you should then be able to select a saved "Style" within the "New caption track" settings window that opens.

The only option I have under "Style" is "none". So I select "none", then get the captions looking exactly as I want in the Essential Graphics pane, then under "Track Style" I select "Create Style," give it a name, and there it is.

But then with a new project I don't see any way to select that style I already created. The only option under "style" when creating a caption track is once again "none".

Is there a way to import a saved style to use in all projects?

Effects and Titles

Correct answer sjw825

You can do this now... In the Essential Graphics panel, under edit, there is a "Track Styles" option. You can create a track style or load one of your presets. Makes it very easy.

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sjw825Correct answer

Participant

You can do this now... In the Essential Graphics panel, under edit, there is a "Track Styles" option. You can create a track style or load one of your presets. Makes it very easy.

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Ryan28328492ljvc

Inspiring

Why is Create Style... greyed out under Track Style? Are they almost ready to implement a local save? Super fustrating to not be able to save a caption style to just re-use. I make 3-20 videos a day and I have to manually remake each caption style? C'mon man.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Ryan, you probably have more than one caption selected. Select only one and the Create Style will be active.

See this post for more information about styles:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-pro-15-edit-rename-delete-captions-master-style/m-p/13493028#M449588

The best workaround when reusing multiple Caption Track Styles is to select the ones you want, right-click and export, save it where you want. Then drag that file to the Project Panel for a new project - it will import all the styles.

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Steven5C60

Participant

Two years later and this is still an issue - we cannot save the custom Track Styles we make. 😆 Come on, Adobe. Please add the functinality to save these Track Styles as a preset.

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Luke278354683jdt

Participant

Here we are, two years later, and this still hasn't been fixed. But, I have discovered something of a work-around.

The easiest thing to do to avoid hand-jamming the style into each new project is to:

1. Create a subtitle track in your new project.

2. Open a previous project where the "Track Style" you want is saved.

3. Copy and paste a subtitle from that project into the new project.

4. Open "Essential Graphics" and the "Save" the style again in the new project.

5. Transcribe & caption your new project audio in the newly saved style.

Matt Young14394008Author

Legend

Drag and drop once vs. opening an old project, copy/pasting, then saving the style in the new project? I'll stick with simply dragging the style clip from a folder on the computer to the project panel of Premiere. Job done.

It's simpler still because I use Post Haste for new projects, so my template project already has the style preset in the project panel.

Still, Adobe should fix the silly oversite.

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Kelsey J

Participant

Fortunately, it's a little simpler than all that messing around indicated by Luke above - you can just take the "Style" files from the Project panel and copy them straight into another project's Project panel without having to bother with the rigamarole of exporting, but still doesn't solve the problem that these should be locally saved presets. Your solution works best if you need a caption style to apply to more than, say, two or three projects in a short timespan.

Josh Powlison

Participant

I found this thread today searching for an answer via Google, and there's actually a way easier way to do this (at least in the latest version of Premiere, I don't know if it was always there):

1. Click and drag the .prtextstyle file into Premiere's the Project window where you're storing your assets.

2. It will now show up in your captions Track Styles list when you use the dropdown again.

Matt Young14394008Author

Legend

Your solution is effectively exactly the same as the procedure outlined in the comment marked "correct answer" to this thread.

Josh Powlison

Participant

Sorry, I misread your post. I was in a hurry on a 30-minute volunteer project at the time, trying to wrap it up before work.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Each project is its own thing. Metadata for that project stored within it, except for some Preferences and Presets which PrPro will store elsewhere. And in this case, they don't have it set to record captions styles as presets elsewhere yet.

Stan's UserVoice request is spot-on. And the way we can show the need for this change.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Matt Young14394008Author

Legend

Insanity.

It really is stunning that countless hours can go into revamping captions, yet none of the developers said, "Wait a minute, these new styles should function like presets."

But then, these are the same developers who said, "From this day forward caption backgrounds can only be a rectangle as long as the longest line of captions. If you want your company's new content to match existing content created with Premiere...too bad. Change your brand's visual identity rules or change editing software."

Sorry. Needing to vent. I've basically worked salary-free for Adobe for the past two weeks documenting bugs (or what turn out to be thoughtless oversights), and it's so frustrating to contemplate the short-sighted decisions they make.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Watching this evolve through the public Beta was an education in itself. My belief is that the first priority was to get Track styles implemented. They had an option for saving and sharing (from disk file), and planned to move toward a library option. That just didn't happen before the release.

Reworking the caption workflow is a huge project. But I believe they want every bit of feedback to prioritize next steps.

Stan

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Lol. You are catching on fast. Absolutely, that is the way we'd all like it. Since it is working correctly, as far as it goes, it isn't a bug. It's a ...

Feature Request. In this case, I do not see one. I filed it.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/43002642-caption-track-style-make-available-across-project

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REP Louisville

Participant

20 months later and there still isn't a way to do this? And your "Feature Request" link doesn't work anymore, so there is no where I can check to be sure it is still a request. It is crazy to me that we still don't have this. Seems so obvious and basic. And based on this thread there is clearly a need/want for this.

Matt Young14394008Author

Legend

Well, I've discovered I can export the style "clip" that appears in the Project pane after saving a style in the essential graphics pane. When that is exported to a specified location on my machine, I can then open a new project and import that same "clip" (the .prtextstyle file) into the project pane. Then the style is recognized as a valid option when creating a new caption track.

Surely this can't be the way it's supposed to work. Why wouldn't Premiere be able to save that same .prtextstyle file itself when it's created, and make it available across all projects?

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