608 closed captions vs open captions in Premiere Pro 2025

[Mark Chesterton]

I am having issues making my 608 captions be closed captions vs. open captions.  I used the audio transcription function, turn them into 608 captions, but no where do I see how to make them closed captioned.  The captions are displayed on the Program Monitor, but the gear icon does not have a "Closed Captions Display" option that online searches recommend to change.  When I export the video, the captions are burned in as open captions or subtitles.  I need the captions to be embedded in the file, but not displayed as open captions.  I do not want the captions exported as a sidecar.

Any recommendations?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @Mark Chesterton,

Thanks for the message and welcome to the forums. Glad to see you here! I'd love to hear what @Stan Jones says on the topic. I hope we can help you shortly. Sorry for the frustration.

Cheers,
Kevin

[Stan Jones]

@Mark Chesterton,

The display option no longer applies since the revised caption workflow 2021.

You can embed in mov and mxf op1a. In export settings, set to embed.

Stan

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

@Mark Chesterton,

Internet was out most of yesterday, and I was responding on my phone. This is the help guide regarding embedding closed captions in the revised workflow introduced in PR 2021 (version 15).

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/working-with-captions.html

It includes:

"When your video is ready, you can export the captions as stylized, burned-in subtitles, a .srt sidecar text file, or embedded in a QuickTime or MXF file."

and

"Premiere Pro supports embedding into and decoding from the following file formats:  

• MOV
• DNxHD MXF Op1a
• MXF Op1a"

If this doesn't work, let us know.

Stan