Duplicating Caption Tracks

[huyt63327659]

I tried copy&pasting captions from one sequence to another into a new caption track . Now the eye controls both visibilities even though the captions are on different tracks? (It did paste it into the existing track but I figured a drag&drop would simply fix this. Well, I didn't count on Adobe to not screw this up.)

[Stan Jones]

@huyt63327659,

You can do this, but there are some details that are important.

What version of PR are you running? There is a bug in 23.6 that requires COPYING not MOVING captions from one track to another.

Drag+Select all the captions in the source sequence. Ctl+C to copy.

Note the timecode of the beginning of the first caption in that sequence.

Create a new caption track in the target sequence.

Set the playhead at the beginning timecode from the source sequence.

EDIT to my post - In the original post, I said to use Ctl+V to paste. In fact, that does not work. In versions of PR since 22.5, in the Timeline, Ctl+V pastes only to the same track. You can set different shortcuts, or you can just use Edit -> Paste. In other posts, I have suggesting just Alt+dragging, but you can't do that between sequences.

Is there a reason you are pasting to an existing track with captions? That may not merge correctly, so let's see what you actual goal is.

Stan

[huyt63327659]

It is the newest version of pp.

I just wanted to merge two sequences which only differ in caption language, resulting in one sequence with two caption tracks.

C&P would just copy all captions of the C1 track from seq1 and paste it into C1 from seq2. At least I didn't see a way to paste it into C2. Moving them manually to a different track afterwards would result in the bug.

I just solved this by copying the content of the  C1 track to a new C2 in seq1 and then this would allow it to c&p it into C2 in seq2. So somehow PP saves the track number with all captions regardless where they end up in?

[Stan Jones]

Note that I edited my previous post. In the original post, I incorrectly said to use Ctl+V to paste. But in the timeline, unless you change keyboard shortcuts, that only works to paste to the same track.

The video in Sequence 1 and 2 is the same? And only the caption track is different?

Are you trying to get both caption languages on the screen at once? Or to show a caption from one language, and then one from the other language?

Are you burning in? Or creating sidecar files?

Stan

[huyt63327659]

It's the same video just with two different caption tracks in two different languages. 

At the end there will be two exports with burned-in captions. One in English and one in German.

The previous editor did this in two seperate sequences and as I was updating the edits it was just stupid to do the same thing twice. That's why I merged them.

It's a strange bug but it could solve the problem of showing two differently timed caption tracks at the same time.

[Stan Jones]

So you just need the captions from the "other" sequence to be copied to its own track in the sequence you are editing.

Let us know if you don't get it sorted.

Stan