I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 (version 25.0) and I have a workflow involving Captions that I convert to Graphics so I can animate them.
Here is the exact technical situation:
1) I create Captions using the Transcribe and Create Captions workflow.
2) I have verified that the text in Captions is visually centered on screen using visual guides and safe margins, with all caption alignment settings enabled (Align Text Center, Center Text Vertically, Zone set to center, and position X/Y set to 0,0).
3) Despite this, the bounding box (the dashed blue outline around each caption instance) is NOT centered relative to the screen. The bounding box appears to be tied to the left edge of the text content rather than being centered relative to the frame, even though the text itself is visually centered.
4) When I convert the Captions to Graphics (Captions → Graphics conversion), Premiere Pro uses this misaligned bounding box as the basis for the Graphics clip’s geometry and pivot.
5) As a result, after conversion, the Graphics text is no longer centered relative to the screen. The text becomes centered inside the bounding box instead, and since the bounding box itself is offset, the entire text appears shifted horizontally (to the left).
6) To fix this after conversion, I currently have to select each individual Graphics caption, open Align and Transform, and manually click “Align Center Horizontally” (vertical alignment is usually not required). This fixes both the text and the bounding box for that one clip, but this process must be repeated for every caption, which is not scalable for projects with many captions.
Additional clarification regarding Align and Transform parameters:
In the Align and Transform section, there are two different X/Y value pairs shown next to the Zone grid. One X/Y pair controls the horizontal and vertical position of the text itself relative to the frame. This set is currently at 0,0 and correctly centers the text visually.
The second X/Y pair (also currently set to 0,0) controls the horizontal and vertical size of the bounding box (the width and height of the caption box itself). Changing values in this second parameter set does not allow centering the bounding box relative to the screen. Entering any values only stretches or shrinks the bounding box, often causing it to extend off-screen, but it never aligns the bounding box center to the screen center.
The only way to visually center the bounding box is by manually dragging it in the Program Monitor. However, doing so immediately breaks the text centering (the text shifts off center), and additionally the bounding box X/Y values no longer remain at 0,0 afterward. This indicates that text position and bounding box geometry are tightly coupled in Captions mode, and there is no available numeric or alignment-based control to independently center the bounding box relative to the frame while keeping the text centered.
Additional clarification regarding post-conversion reuse of alignment:
After converting Captions to Graphics, even if I manually fix the alignment for one Graphics caption so that both the text and the bounding box are correctly centered relative to the screen, I am unable to propagate this correct alignment to other Graphics captions.
Specifically:
- Using Paste Attributes with “Vector Motion” enabled does not transfer the correct horizontal centering of the bounding box to other Graphics clips.
- Creating or applying a Graphics Style based on a correctly centered caption also does not apply the corrected bounding box alignment to other Graphics captions.
As a result, there is no available way to reuse or batch-apply the correct centered alignment from one properly fixed Graphics caption to the remaining Graphics captions. Each Graphics caption must be manually selected and individually aligned using Align and Transform → Align Center Horizontally.
What I am trying to achieve:
I need a workflow where captions can be generated, verified as visually centered, converted to Graphics for animation, and remain centered afterward without requiring manual per-clip alignment fixes. I am looking for either:
- A pre-conversion method in the Captions panel to force the bounding box to be centered relative to the frame (not just the text), or
- An official or recommended post-conversion workflow that allows batch or reusable application of correct bounding box centering for Graphics captions.
At the moment, this limitation makes it extremely inefficient to work with animated captions in Premiere Pro 2025, and it appears to be a systemic limitation or bug in how Captions bounding boxes are converted to Graphics geometry.
I would appreciate any help!
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