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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.
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Instead of subtitles, use an Essential Graphic text layer. Subtitles are traditionally text-only and are not meant to have effects applied.
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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?
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A couple of workarounds:
I would also make a feature request to allow for doing this within Premiere natively; any others have asked for this too.
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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:
This post, in that thread, gives links to two requests related to opacity:
There are also posts that discuss converters to make PR captions into xml that can be imported as essential graphics text.
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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