Change font of subtitles but only for one Language

[federicas44102098]

Hello, I have a problem. After importing the .srt file into Premiere, I can't seem to find a way (thats not manually) to change the font only the first line of captions. I'll explain. My .srt file has chinese text on top and english on the bottom, making it a double line of subs. I know how to change ALL the fonts for all the captions but is there a way to only change the font for the chinese captions (aka just the top line)?

[AnnikaKoenig · Accepted solution]

Currently this is not possible without manually changing every caption.
Is there a way in the future you could separate the languages into two caption tracks? This way you could use the "Captions to Graphics" feature and have both lines on different tracks. The benefit of graphics is that you can have two tracks of graphics visible at the same time, which is not possible with captions, as you know.

[Stan Jones]

I agree with @AnnikaKoenig,

All of this assumes you want to burn in.

Workaround 1 (Annika's "in the future separate tracks"):

I would go back to the source of your srt. Create 2 srts: one Chinese, one English.

Import one. Disable (click the eyeball so it doesn't show). Then you can import the second. Select the captions in one track and Graphics and Titles -> Upgrade Caption to Graphic. Format the remaining subtitle track one way, and the upgraded (now graphics text) to the other font. You may need to move the position.

Workaround 2:

Use your caption track as currently.

Duplicate it. Let's call the original Captions 1 and the other Captions 2. You can set your font now or later. Apply a cpation track style to Captions 1, and another with the other font to Captions 2.

Select all the captions on Captions 1 and Upgrade Caption to Graphic.

Same for Captions 2. You now have 2 sets of graphics items in 2 tracks.

Mask one language out of Captions 1, and the other out of Captions 2. I did it with an opacity mask for each set. Copy/paste attributes only opacity.

Stan

[Gnap31993143eqyd]

Yes, I'll do it like that. Thank you everyone!

[Stan Jones]

Let us know how this works for you. There are other users with similar workflows.

Stan

[_nicdean]

@federicas44102098  In 2024 you can do this with the Captioneer plugin.

1. Create a MOGRT in After Effects with 2 different fonts
2. Select your custom MOGRT in Captioneer
3. Import the SRT to Captioneer and go to Text Input > Lines > Double
4. Send Chinese text to Line #1 and English text to Line #2