Caption Options Not Working

[analytical_fighter2993]

The Caption Workflow is broken beyond belief, to the point of not even being useful. It doesn't even matter if you use Premiere Pro's renderer or AME.

If you have the caption track enabled (by clicking the "eyeball" icon so that it's "open"), it always burns in the captions. It doesn't matter if you select "None" (toggle the slider in PPR), "Create Sidecar File", or "Burn Captions Into Video."

If you have the caption track disabled (by clicking the "eyeball" icon so that it's "closed"), the captions options are inaccessible. Captions don't get burned in, but you also have to manually export your SRT files if you want sidecars.

Absolute garbage. I should be able to have a "burn" preset and a "sidecar" preset, and send my file through there to get the two video versions and the support file. Instead, now, for every file, I have to render it, go change the visibility, render it again, then manually create the SRT. This is the workflow in a tool aimed at professionals? 

Premiere Pro 25.1.0 (Build 73)

[Rach McIntire]

Hi @analytical_fighter2993,

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums!  We’re happy you’ve reached out.  Can you share screenshots of your caption settings?  Have you checked out this helpful link Captions workflow in Premiere Pro

We’ll need a bit more info to try to help with your issue. Please see: How do I write a bug report?  I hope we can help you soon.

[Stan Jones]

@analytical_fighter2993,

You'll see similar reports over multiple versions. Some reports were user error (the export was actually correct, but a preexisting srt was being used by VLC player so it looked like they were burned in). Some earlier reports were bugs that were fixed.

The latest bug identified occurs when there is a mogrt at the beginning of the sequence. I missed the post identifying this, and do not see information on whether the bug has been fixed in Beta or not. I have not attempted to replicate.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/can-t-export-subtitiles-with-sidecar/idc-p/15169527...

If this is your problem, the workaround is what you are doing. Burn-in (captions enabled), no burn-in (captions disabled), SRT export via Caption tab 3 dots menu (styling on by default) or via File -> Export -> Captions (styling can be turned off).

@jamieclarke Do you have any further information?

Stan

[analytical_fighter2993]

This is exactly the problem: It's a video comprised of (mostly) After Effects clips, so unfortunately it looks like, for now, I'm stuck with the workaround. I'm getting around it (temporarily) by duplicating the project (eek!) so that I can queue the "Caption" version and the "Sidecar" version separately in AME. It's a little extra work and not ideal, so I hope the bug is resolved soon.