Hello everyone,
I'm trying to add a .srt file on a video in Premiere Pro. When the subtitles are displayed at the bottom of the video (as they automatically do when you import subtitles), they mostly look normal. Both lines contain equal words or more accurately - both lines have equal characters and equal lengths. They look better this way. However, I want captions to be in the middle of the video and twice as big. When I do that from the essential graphics panel, most of the subtitles suddenly split unequally - there is a full sentence or 3-4 words on the first line and a single word on the second line. Not in all subtitles but in a big portion of them.
Is there any way to fix it? Could I change characters per line or lines per card in .srt settings in some specific way? I tried several combinations but they didn't work. Can I change something from the essential graphics tab? Because otherwise, I have to go through all of the captions manually which takes most of my editing time.
Btw I don't want captions to be any bigger since they will overlap with the logo on the right side of the video. Also, I don't want to have more than 2 lines.
This is how it looks
And this is how I want it to look
These are the changed settings
And these are the originals
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Only a quick moment right now....
Try the Center zone rather than the Left Middle. (As shown in #5 in my screenshot. Ignore any of the values in this screenshot; it was made for someone else.)
Then adjust the "Set horizontal size" to reduce the bounding box and shorten the line length - i.e. push the text to the second line after fewer characters. (In the screenshot, #6, the value that is 96 there.)
Create that as a style so it applies to the whole track. It some don't work, you can try a different size, or you can adjust for those individually.
Once you adjust from the style, don't apply it again or it will change it all back.
Stan
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