Premiere Pro doesn't allow effects on subtitle layer

[defaults5731wglsj4u]

I want to add effects to my subtitles such as a zoom in when it appears or shakiness when the text is in frame, but when I try to add any effects to the subtitle layer, it won't let me. There's no effects window for the subtitle layer, either. I'm very confused by this. It seems it should be simple to add these effects, and I'm not sure why I can't. At the very least I feel that I should be able to convert the subtitles to regular text so I can edit it that way, but there is no way to do that-- I've tried exporting as a .SRT and re-importing but it puts it on the subtitle layer. Any workarounds you've found? I want to put animations on my text without having to manually type out the whole video.

[John V Knowles]

Instead of subtitles, use an Essential Graphic text layer. Subtitles are traditionally text-only and are not meant to have effects applied.

[defaults5731wglsj4u]

Right but then I will have to manually type out all of my captions. For a 10 minute video, that doesn't work. Is there any way to convert subtitles into an essential graphic layer?

[John V Knowles]

A couple of workarounds:

• If you're on Windows, you can use a tool like SubtitleEdit to import an SRT file of your captions and export them to XML, which will import as Essential Graphics. There may be a MacOS solution as well but I don't know one off-hand. 
• You can also export your captions and open the SRT in a text editor, then copy+paste the text into Essential Graphics. 

I would also make a feature request to allow for doing this within Premiere natively; any others have asked for this too. 

JVK

[Stan Jones]

This is a feature request. The new capton workflow changed captions to be non-video items, and no longer subject to effect controls.

See this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-workaround-nesting-to-apply-effect-controls-to-capti...

This post, in that thread, gives links to two requests related to opacity:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-workaround-nesting-to-apply-effect-contr...

There are also posts that discuss converters to make PR captions into xml that can be imported as essential graphics text.

Stan

[CORNERIS34155712vsaz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwEY3Fq8wo8&ab_channel=DavidMbugua

[Stan Jones]

This YouTube tutorial uses the "Upgrade Caption to Graphic" feature and adds effects to that. Introduced in the Dec 2022 release (as noted, version 23.1).

Stan

[andres_1593 · Accepted solution]

guys im a few yeas late hopefully this can help someone but you can drag over your text and click on graphics and titles and then upgrade subtitiles from text to graphics, then you can add effects from there

[atharva38482858iru2]

You can't. Unfortunately, Adobe still hasn't resolved this issue I feel 😞 

[Kamar4K]

This works! Thanks.