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July 13, 2025
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Adjust Subtitle Work Area

  • July 13, 2025
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How could I bring the Subtitle tracks closer to the vídeo tracks to help editing?

Correct answer Stan Jones

@Paulo Barbagli,

 

Your actual request, reducing the space between the subtitle track and the video tracks, is best accomplished by dragging the Audio/Video divider up to REDUCE the amount of space given to the video tracks. This reduces the space between the subtitles and video track.

 

But your response to Marek suggests that you have the issue that bothers many users: increasing the amount of space allocated to the caption tracks.

 

The biggest issue is that the caption tracks are limited to no more than 25% of the timeline panel area. You CAN increase the caption track area, and increase the relative size of individual or all caption tracks, but only within that 25% limit.

 

See my post here to upvote a feature request and for more information on adjusting tracks:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/make-caption-track-height-adjustable/idc-p/13492532#M323

 

This changed some when multiple caption tracks were enabled, but not much.

 

If the suggestions there don't improve what you see, post back and we'll help further.

 

Stan

 

 

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Stan Jones
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July 14, 2025

@Paulo Barbagli,

 

Your actual request, reducing the space between the subtitle track and the video tracks, is best accomplished by dragging the Audio/Video divider up to REDUCE the amount of space given to the video tracks. This reduces the space between the subtitles and video track.

 

But your response to Marek suggests that you have the issue that bothers many users: increasing the amount of space allocated to the caption tracks.

 

The biggest issue is that the caption tracks are limited to no more than 25% of the timeline panel area. You CAN increase the caption track area, and increase the relative size of individual or all caption tracks, but only within that 25% limit.

 

See my post here to upvote a feature request and for more information on adjusting tracks:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/make-caption-track-height-adjustable/idc-p/13492532#M323

 

This changed some when multiple caption tracks were enabled, but not much.

 

If the suggestions there don't improve what you see, post back and we'll help further.

 

Stan

 

 

Participant
July 14, 2025

Thank you all for helping me. The 25% limit is the problem. Working on subtitles could be easier removing it, considering you will need only 1 video track and many subtitle tracks. Maybe in the future!

Ty

Participant
November 5, 2025

Yes! I have the same problem, I have just 1 video track and many subtitle tracks because it has the transcriptions in 3  different languages and then the translation in other 3 languages too. And I can´t maximize the subs track! 😞

MarekMularczyk
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July 14, 2025

Make your Timeline panel shorter or increase the size of the Video tracks to make them touch the Subtitles track.

  

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Participant
July 14, 2025
I need more space to use subtitle tracks. This answer doesnt help.

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MarekMularczyk
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July 14, 2025

That's the only solution, I'm afraid, because the Subtitle track always sits on the top of the Timeline and as such (as far as I'm aware) cannot be moved.

  

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