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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
    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

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      crispacket
      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.

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        MunchyBugs
        Known Participant
        December 7, 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

         


        Unfortunatly this is a Premiere limitation...still. I have worked for decades in video and have always needed to have captions files. While professionally generated caption files, even those auto-genereated by the equipment in T.V. stations, can change the position and color and background opacity, Premiere cannot. At least not in an industry-standard format. There are provisions in srt file format for position, Premiere just doesn't use them. It sucks, especially now that captions are easier to deal with in Premiere. But it makes all that other work Adobe has done useless if you can't generate a file format that works with the industry. Case in point, I constantly need to move captions to the top to avoid interfeering with lower thirds. The only format that Adobe can do this in, despite the fact that it is easy to do, is an stl file. Good luck finding someothing to do with this file in 2023 in the US.

         

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