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February 24, 2022
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captions size and style change when I export

  • February 24, 2022
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Hello Community,


I'm having an issue with Premiere (last version V22.2).
I created my captions and stylized them in Subtitle format on Essential Graphics panel. But when I want to change in another format, or when I want to export on "create sidecar file", it completly change the style of the subtitles (size and style). And I can't change the style on other caption format

Can someone has the solution please ? 

Many thanks in advance
Adeline

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
February 24, 2022

Some formats (e.g. Closed Caption  608/708) have limits on what styles can be applied, because they must meet the specifications for those formats. As you have seen, when you have "Subtitle" selected, you have many styling options. If you change that format to 608, you have many fewer.

 

When you export a sidecar file, for example srt for a subtitle format, Premiere Pro only exports some of the styling information. I last tested for 4 style elements: Font color, Font family, Caption Position, and Background (yes/no and color). Of those, the only style carried in the exported .srt file was font color.

 

Stan

Known Participant
June 2, 2023

Is there any way to keep a style the same as how its shown in premiere once its exported as an srt sidecar file? Id like to keep at least the font and background to make it readable. However the background always gets removed and the subtitles are unreadable over any white parts on the image.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
June 2, 2023

When exporting a Subtitle format caption track as SRT, only font color styling will be exported. It specifically will not use font family, caption position, or and caption background.''

 

If you change the caption track format to EBU, Teletext, or Austalian OP47, you will have the same (limited) styles, but each of those exported as STL or XML will carry font color and background as well as position.

 

Stan