Spikes on captions (Premiere Pro 14.9 and earlier)

Turning down the edge doesn't solve the issue, as if you turn it to 0 you get horribly jagged lettering. 

The only way that I've found to sort this (and it's not ideal) while keeping the edge (set at 1), is to add a couple of spaces at the end of each line. As I say, not ideal, because it's empty space and if you are exporting the captions they will include this, but if you're burning captions into the video, it's the only way I've found to keep the edge setting (and therefore the nicely rounded, smooth lettering) and not have the lettering go off of the edge of the backdrop (which would then generally become indecipherable against the video itself)

Adobe really need to fix captions in Premiere. A modern tool shouldn't have such holes in the functionality when trying to achieve accessible video. 

This dosen't solve the problem with the edge of the captions but I found a workaround that really worked for me: I turned down the edge at 0 and after that, I applied a drop shadow on the captions layer. That also gives you a better control over the look and feel of the caption. I hope it helps.

There is no solution yet. Staff report a few days ago that this is under review for a future release. Upvote here:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/34371019-edge-rendering-issue-on-close-captions

There was an improvement for some instances of this problem in 13.0.0 (shortly after the original post in this thread), but not all. The best you can do is a combination of font and edge. The last I tested it, I found for Arial, font size 44, spike is gone at edge = 2. Comic Sans, edge = 5.)

I don't understand how this post is marked as solved. Turning down the width of the edge is not the solution, it will make the spike just smaller and at the same time the edge becomes almost inexistent. I've tried multiple fonts and in the basic ones (the ones we need to use) there's always these spikes. I've all the posts related to this and there's no solution, it's quite frustrating since those spikes are very unprofessional looking. I'm using open captions on premiere pro cc 2018. Anyone actually found the solution? Thanks

Might want to turn down the stroke.