Closed Captions changing the default

[Shinish]

Hey!

I am just curious if there is a way that PP can save the changes you make to the "Create captions" pop-up menu or do I have to just manually change the style, max length in characters, min duration in seconds, gap between captions and lines options each time? 

I ask because I work with short form content and I see this menu about 20 times a day when I feel like creating captions should be way less clicks than this.

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

Shinish,

You will see "Subtitle Default" in the top of your screenshot. That is a default preset. Change your settings. Then in the 3 dot menu to the right, click it and you will see "Save current settings as preset."

In the Project Panel, you will see a new folder "Auto Captioning Presets" with your preset as an item in it.

If you pick "Export" it will allow you to create a file with a "prcaptionspreset" filetype anywhere on your computer. This can be imported to a different project. Unlike cpation text styles, you cannot export it from the Project Panel; you have to start the Create Captions dialogue and export from there.

Stan

[Shinish]

NAILED IT! 

Thank you so much! 

[Stan Jones]

Excellent!

[glennm16330209]

I'm going to follow onto this question, rather than start a new thread...so, after you've picked your preset and begin work, how do I get *back* to that menu? 🙂 I've discovered that the default caption length is too long, and I'm doing a lot of extra editing that I'd prefer to avoid. So, that would be very helpful!

And seriously, has anyone pointed out how incredibly easy captioning here is? Even the machine transcriptions are pretty good (not flawless, but they require very little tweaking). I've love to work this into my workflow, but alas, my time is too short. Fantastic work on the dev's part, though!

[Stan Jones]

Glenn,

You can't; you have to create a new caption track with the revised settings. This is easy if you catch it early in the process, but a problem if you have done a lot of editing. But, let's say you have edited half your sequence, you could recreate the captions and just copy the new ones for the second half of the sequence.

See this thread for my speculation on why the options don't always work as expected:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/create-captions-minimum-duration-in-seconds-being-c...

And here's a related option that is in development in the public Beta version, Caption Validation. It is not in the 23.6 release version:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/discuss-captions-validation-overflow-am...

Note that some users are asking for a quick way to fix multiple captions.

The captions workflow is much improved over the old workflow; and there are major additions on a regular basis. But this does produce a learning curve that can be challening.

Stan

[bulov]

Life saver! 👊