Social Caption Styles Only Appear in Certain Project Types?

Question

I've been using the new Adobe social-style captions in our Instagram Reels, and it seems pretty straightforward. However, I recently was working on a web project where the client decided late that they wanted some social cut-downs, and when I went to add the social-style captions (Bold Captions with White Background), there are no caption "styles" available. It would appear that these styles only appear when you start your project using the Social template.

I know that I can start another project, assign the social template, then individually copy-and-paste each social cutdown into that new project, but does anyone know if there is a way to manually assign caption track styles to a standard project where you didn't start with the Social template?

Stan Jones · Accepted Answer

@Stan Jones - Aha! I was trying to copy from the wrong spot. Your example above 100% works, and also allows me to copy these into my template going forward so that they're available on every project.

Thanks much!

Right! Also, with just the social media template open, you can right-click on a style and use "Export text styles" to create a .prtextstyle file with one or more styles in it.

Or, once you have it in one of your projects, select a caption, use the style browser, set the track style, and it will add it as a local style you can access even if it is not in an open project.

C:\Users\[User]\Documents\Adobe\Common\Assets\Text Styles\

Stan

Stan Jones · Answer

@David.Swinehart,

I have not paid any attention to those templates!

Try this. Open your current project. Then, with it open, create a new project and pick the social media template. In the Project Panel for the new project, click on the style you want, and copy. The switch to your other project panel and paste. Now that style will be available as a local style for you to use.

Does that work?

Stan

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