Captions not aligning

This is still a problem 7 years later!! I'm going spare...

Super Frustrated.

I want a button that does this all for me. no more exporting the audio and using a 3rd party speech to text converter and then pasting in the lines one at a time. I want it to automatically set up the captions (with small spaces in the pauses) and all I would have to do is search for errors in the automated text. 

Hi,

-- The following is based on Premiere Pro CC 2020, v14.7.0 --

1.  In the Project panel >> RMB on the captions >> Modify >> Captions.
   1. In here I used Open Captions, which allows me to set dimensions.
2. Match dimensions to your preferred video output.
   1. Mine is set to 1080p with preferred video output/export product to be 1080p, as well.
3. Set the Pixel Aspect Ratio to Square Pixels (1.0).
4. Deselect the input fields and press enter
   1. Clicking the close icon discards any changes

Hope this helps.

I've had this problem and sorted it! I was editing 4K down to HD 1080p and my captions were off wack when rendered. Didn't matter if they were open/closed.  You have to keep in mind captions are not graphics; they are a bunch of code that gets thrown in the mix on render. So I took my 4K footage, edited it as 4K (using proxies) and then rendered to 1080p and the problem disappeared.

This is what I do in the captions panel:

1. I make all the changes needed in the text (it might look amazingly bad after some cut, paste, delete, write).

2. Then, I change the size of the text twice (the first time to make it bigger or smaller, the second time to the original size) that will remove the unwanted spaces generated between words.

3. Then, use the alignment tool to the desired alignment position (usually bottom center). It will somehow activate the text justification and the alignment at once.

4. If you want to change the space between lines, do it manually by clicking on the line you want to move and then adjust the Y position.

* Sometimes even doing this won´t fix the caption, so you may need to adjust the alignment with the spacebar.

It is a very stupid -and slow- process, but is the only way I have found to "solve" this issue.

I'm still having the same problem... Smh

This bug unfortunately made its way back in version 13.1 on Mac OS.

Very annoying.

Lines are off center and it is impossible to change the x value.

If you encounter the problem of Open Captions not centering try the following:

1. Locate the Open Caption file (You can right click on the caption layer in your sequence and select Reveal in Project.

2. Select the file, File -> Export -> Captions

3. Select your file format

4. Save it as a different file name.

5. Delete your existing Caption file

6. Import the caption file you saved above

7. Insert into your Timeline

Of course the formatting of the Open Caption file resets. However, Premiere re-centers the captions.

I've had this same issue, particularly when opening older projects and the only solution I have found is to change the caption font size and for some reason this resets the caption position to where it should be

hello

1. it's a bug. hasbn't been fixed in 2017.1 either

2. What I do is export without Queue, but rather direct exporting. that works.

3. sometimes even centering is not exact but you can move it to the center by adding sapces at the end of the line