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tomasm85990447
Participating Frequently
November 21, 2017
Question

Premiere Pro CC 2018 Captions Bug

  • November 21, 2017
  • 3 replies
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Hi,

Whenever we re-open our premiere pro projects the open captions will be screwed up. Premiere Pro will create additional captions which are 1 frame long and squeeze them in between the other two captions. It will also copy the text from both neighbour captions and insert it into that short one.

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    Participating Frequently
    December 19, 2017

    Horrible captioning! Just finished using different open captions on a longer film by duplicating the original Caption in the project. Although in the caption manager the correct texts are displayed the ones on screen are from the last one edited!

    Hours of work lost! Don't they at least test those features, like... once????

    Known Participant
    December 20, 2017

    That is what I said, back in 2016 when this feature bug was introduced. I test the function when there is an update, and so far the disappointment has not failed me.

    Best workflow for subtitling / open captioning anything with PPRO is to use a third party application on the finalized video. Which is too bad as the feature would have been so nice to have in the program, provided it worked at all.

    adanp9596416
    Participant
    June 4, 2018

    Do you have a recommendation for 3rd party software?

    Inspiring
    November 26, 2017

    We have had this problem too. Have you found any solutions?

    tomasm85990447
    Participating Frequently
    November 27, 2017

    No, we haven't...

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    November 21, 2017

    PrPro's caption system is not the slickest by far (ahem) ... but this is one of the weirder events I've seen. Gotta be a killer, that's nasty.

    Vidya Sagar​ ... can you provide any help on this? It's way past my knowledge.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    tomasm85990447
    Participating Frequently
    November 22, 2017

    We switched to youtube's automatic captioning system for now. It automatically sets timing for your transcript.

    Participant
    April 28, 2018

    Can you take the srt file from you tube and drop on timeline in premeire and work with closed captions..?


    Apparently not. It duplicates the last line of text on the next line.