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RobertKjettrup
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July 29, 2025

Export SRT captions also exports disabled caption clips

  • July 29, 2025
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Exporting SRT caption files from either the export tab, the file-export-captions or the Text panel, captions tab, will export all caption clips for the active caption track, also all disabled caption clips.
This works as expected with burn-in captions via the export tab, and also used to work as exptected for SRT files in older Premiere versions (just tested the last released 2024 and that also have the problem😵)

 

1. Generate a static transcript for a timeline via the Text panel in the transcribe tab
2. Create captions to a caption track from the transcriped text

3. Disabled a couple of the caption clips

4. export the timeline via the export tab and make sure to enable captions and set it to "Create Sidecar File" and SRT file
5. export

What should have happened?

A exported video and a srt file with only the enabled captions included.


What actually happened?
All captions in the timeline is in the srt, both enabled and disabled... not what should happen.

4 replies

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 30, 2025

@RobertKjettrup,

 

Clever use of Shft+E! But I suspect that this is an unintended "enabling" for captions of the "enable clip" shortcut. And that's why there's no right-click option.

 

What you are calling a "caption clip" is a "caption segment." Also, the caption track is not a video track; it is its own type of project item. I suspect that if they used a "caption clip" concept, it would be the whole track - like the old caption workflow when a caption "track" was a video clip.

 

No matter; I agree that they could do this if they intended it.

 

The workaround is to duplicate the caption track, and delete unwanted segments from there.

 

What workflow are you using that needs the ability to disable individual caption segments? This is one of those oddities that is a feature request vs bug depending on your perspective.

 

Stan

 

 

 

 

 

jamieclarke
Community Manager
jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 29, 2025

Hi @RobertKjettrup -  Thank you for the steps including the shift+E to disable.

 

Updating the status to Acknowledged.,  We will let you know when this bug is resolved.

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    RobertKjettrupAuthor
    Known Participant
    July 29, 2025

    Hi @jamieclarke 
    creating a simple caption track, setup as a Subtitle formar in the New Caption Track dialog.
    Disable some of the caption tracks by selecting them and shift+E to disable (btw, why is there no context menu when right clicking an a caption clips so you could diasable it that way too?)

    see screenshot below for what happens in an exported srt with a disabled caption clip.

     

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 29, 2025

    Hi @RobertKjettrup -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
    Please see, How to Report a Problem.

     

    Are you creating a caption track?  How are you disabling the captions?

     

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