Custom Caption Durations/Length

[kellanb36038235]

In the beta version of the feature, the auto-transcribe to caption module allowed us to A) have no minimum amount of time the captions would be on screen, and B) no minimum/maximum amount of text per caption.

This was incredibly helpful for custom timing of captions without having to manually edit each one. Now, no matter how I divide my up and time the transcript, converting it into captions FORCES us into a minimum time of 1.2 seconds on screen and a maximum of 72 characters per caption. How can I get rid of these constraints?

[Mike Dziennik]

The constraints are useful because they don't allow you to put too much text on screen which then becomes unreadable.

You can put a suggestion to bypass these contraints on UserVoice.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro 

[kellanb36038235]

So, yes, useful when you are actually creating captions for the purpose of closed captions and broadcast. No doubt those parameters are useful there.

In my case, I'm looking to add timed captions to my content-creator videos (burned into the export), and it would be nice to have the flexibility to treat them with complete customization. Not sure if there's another app that can do this with the transcription precision Premiere has.

Thanks

[Stan Jones]

They are still actively working on the caption workflow.

The character limit for Subtitles in the "create captions" dialogue changed from a max of 42 to 72 with the PR 22 Release (22.0.0). This was never the max characters for actual subtitles, which depended on the font style and size and whether you maximized the horizontal size of the bounding box.

Currently you would need a third party option to automatically reconfigure many captions to line length longer than 72. I like Subtitle Edit. Export SRT from PR; edit; import.

What maximum would you use?

Stan

[kellanb36038235]

What I love about the transcript panel is it tracks your words to the exact millisecond no matter how you split them up using the "split segment" or "merge segment" tool. I'll use this to emphasize single words, or for comedic effect, or to make sure a plethora of information stays on screen all at once (rather than line by line).

When it comes to the captions panel, it removes a lot of those custom-timed segments from the transcript panel, and "split caption" and "merge caption" tools get the timing wrong. So the maximum I would use would be...ideally unlimited. Just to have the option to construct it however I'd like would be amazing.

Thanks for the software rec! I'll check it out. 

[Stan Jones]

Here's a related thread with my post and a link to the current Beta work:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/copy-and-paste-with-transcription-text-featu...

If you have not seen this, check it out. They can use your feedback on what you'd like to see possible....

Stan