Is it possible to create subtitles with black box background

[Guest]

Hi All

I have a client who has requested subtitles (which we are embedding, not proper subtitles)

created in this fashion with a black background behind all the text.

Short of creating black rectangles for every line of text throughout the whole program (which would be massively time consuming)

is there any possible way of doing this in Premiere Titler?

Have been tring to find a solution to this for hours now with no luck.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[Ann Bens]

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[Allynn Wilkinson]

Or wait until June 17th.  Real subtitling is a new part of Premiere CC

[ElJayBronx]

Allynn Wilkinson wrote:

Or wait until June 17th.  Real subtitling is a new part of Premiere CC

Allynn: Is this something I am missing, or was it wishful thinking? I searched the PPro documentation and found ONE mention of subtitles, nothing about how to do them.

It'd be nice if you were right, now that Encore is no longer part of updates to PPro, and that was the way to do subtitles.

Jay

[excited_Genie16B8]

The new feature PP got was for Closed Captioning.  Subtitles are done simply with titles.  The 'sub' only refers to their general location near the bottom of the frame, but they are normal titles just the same.

[Steven L. Gotz]

If I were you I would consider just having a wide black rectangle that is large enough to handle just about any text you put on top of it.

Perhaps you could have one title with one black rectangle, one with two, and one with three.

[Ann Bens]

One could always make a template for that.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Those do look more like Closed Caption files, not subtitles.  At the moment, Premiere Pro cannot write CC out to a file, only to tape.  Nor can it actually create Closed Captioning, you have to create that outside of PP and import the CC file.

This all changes next Monday the 17th (for Creative Cloud subscribers).

[Guest]

Thanks for your suggestions, yeah may have to use a black box or heavy drop shadow.

Yeah I saw the fonts posts elsewhere but like mentioned in that thread you can't use fonts as they are transparent in the middle.

Cheers