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April 6, 2024
Question

Closed Captions being cut off in Premier Pro

  • April 6, 2024
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Howdy!

First off, I *do not* need nor want subtitles.  I *need* closed captions.  Premier Pro is truncating my closed captions, meaning that, once I upload to YouTube, I have to go *BACK* in and fix it--bascially doing double the work.

How can I fix this or work around it?  Again, I *do not* need or want subtitles; I *need* closed captions.  I *need* my audience to have the option of turning on or off the captions at will.  Subtitles are on the screen 100% of the time, and this disrupts data I put on screen.

The CA-708 gives me 42 characters per line, but only two lines, meaning *normal* diaglogue is cut off.

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Participating Frequently
May 9, 2025

First off, I *do not* need nor want subtitles.  I *need* closed captions.  Premier Pro is truncating my closed captions on export. Premiere Pro is fully updated. I am creating these captions for a broadcasting network, but too often the export doesn't match what is in the edit. We are talking about trancated captions and also timing of captions that have been altered on export. I am create captions for both lines (608 & 708) but this issue only seems to be happening with 608. Just FYI, My methodology after export is to pull the file back into Premiere to make sure everything is good. This is how I have caught the problem (but the network has also caught on their end with their servers.

 

I have tried many trouble shoots/ work-arounds (including just exporting the 608 line, and importing an scc I crreated from the project in Premiere), but the issue remains.

 

Here is how it looks post edit (where all the captions are back to back wih no spaces):

 

 

And this is what it looks like post export (with spaces and timing shifted and some caps coming in late or ending early):

 

 

These are my export sttings (HDCAM MXF):

 

 

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.

 

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 9, 2025

Hi David,

Thanks for posting this question. I merged your other post as you seem to have the same issue as you did last year. I wonder if you're exceeding any character limits for the closed caption spec you are using. You may want to look into that. I hope that @Stan Jones also weighs in on this issue. Sorry for the frustration.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Participating Frequently
May 9, 2025

Hi Kevin. Thanks for the reply. I don't remember asking anything about this last year. It doesn't appear to be the character limit as I have played around with that but with the same result.

Mike Dziennik
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2024

Firstly, are you 100% sure you need CA-708 closed captions? Youtube supports other formats. such as SRT which I don't believe have length restrictions.

Otherwise, you're only option is to cram the text in and cut to the next caption again and again whilst the person is speaking.

Participant
April 11, 2024

The issue is in Premier. I'm given the CA-608 anc CA-708 options for closed
captions. I export those in SRT form--that's how YouTube uploads. SRT is
a file format, not a caption format.

I can use subtitles and export them as an SRT...but that means they show up
ALL the time and can't be turned off.

*Sincerely,*

*Nathanael Miller*
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Participating Frequently
May 9, 2025

Hey Sparks! Thanks for the verbage that I copied from one of your earlier posts - it was just wtitten perfectly. Anyway, this is for broadcast - hence the MXF output. I'm not sure what they are using the 708 for (maybe YT, but I think not). So this is not for youtube. Thanks.