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How To Lock Captions Lavender Bar but Not Individual Captions

Community Beginner ,
Sep 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019

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I'm editing captions and I keep accidentally moving the lavendar bar when trying to move or lengthen the black caption bars. This causes me to throw all my captions off.

 

I considered a solution: to group the captions with the video. However, "Link" and "Group" don't seem to be an option while the video track is locked.

 

Is there a way to lock the lavendar captions bar in place without locking the black individual captions?

 

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Note on terms: If there's a better name for the lavendar captions bar let me know and I'll update my question. Further more, is there an easy way to find out what everything is in the user interface is called? I find posting questions difficult when I can't use the right terms.

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Sep 27, 2019 Sep 27, 2019

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Not sure if there is a way to do this (and as everyone knows, Premiere captions needs an overhaul) but remember you can drag timecodes in the captions panel to adjust durations which obviously means you cannot move the captions timeline instance accidently.

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My conclusion when fighting this some time ago was just to be careful, zoom in, and use undo as needed. You can see when the caption block is actually selected. But it is difficult.

 

In addition to Mike's method, you can copy and paste the timecode. Position the CTI (current time indicator) at the point where you want an existing caption block to begin or end. Click in the timeline timecode (it should all be selected) and copy. Then click in the caption panel for that caption, begin or end timecode as appropriate, and paste.

 

Re names for various elements in the user interface, this 3 minute tutorial may give you little, but it uses some terms you should know. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/overview-interface-premiere-cc.html

 

For captions specifically, see this page in the guide:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/working-with-captions.html

 

There you can learn "EOC" (End of Caption Block) the little markers in the caption stream in the timeline that show you the beginning and end of each Caption Block. Or the LCB (Lavender Caption Bar) or CSGRITT (Caption Stream Graphical Representation In The Timeline) - lol, yep, just took your lead and made those up! I do not think there is a name for that lavender bar. It does not really exist. Doing some research, I concluded that the actual captions on the timeline exist in a special section of the project file, but I cannot rule out that they are in a cache somewhere. So there is not necessarily a "file" etc that is a holder. It really is just a graphical representation, and in the end, however long or short you drag it, when PR puts a caption stream on the timeline, it will be exactly as long as from the beginning of caption block one to the end of the last.

 

Stan

 

 

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