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Trymmelym
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July 5, 2022
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Subtitles Appearance - Background Size - How to unlink height and width

  • July 5, 2022
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Hi there!

 

This is my first time posting here so feel free to correct me if I you should approach this issue in some other fashion.

 

I love the new way Premiere Pro works with captions and it has really sped up my workflow. However I have one issue with how the background of the subtitles work. I am able adjust the size of the background box around the text, but I am not able to adjust the height and the width independently. This forces me to add spaces to the start and end of each line to manually create more padding on the sides. This workaround adds up to a substantial amount of time.

 

I have attached a video if I haven't explain what I mean well enough. 

 

It would great if you could add this functionality! Please enlighten if I just haven't found the right buttons 🙂

 

Best regards,

Trym

    Correct answer Stan Jones

    Correct, that is currently not possible. Post the feature request here:
    https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

     

    Stan

     

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    Simona25501938rdeb
    Participant
    August 3, 2022

    I hope they will improve it. I have the same problem. I need to put subtitles into video with different subtitles (burned in). So I have to hide old subtitles behind background of new subtitles but I would neeed to be able to change horizontal size of background, what is (unfortunatelly) not possible 😞

     

     

     

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 3, 2022

    For that I think I would put a graphic over that section. And yes, a pain to cut that graphic up, but you could just step through the caption track and cut/delete a single graphic the length of the video.

     

    Be sure to upvote the feature request.

     

    Stan

     

      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      July 5, 2022

      Correct, that is currently not possible. Post the feature request here:
      https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

       

      Stan

       

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        default7dnnpemvqq1p
        Participant
        July 19, 2024

        Hi, it's been 2 years since this topic.
        Is there any evolution ? I've got the same problem

        Stan Jones
        Community Expert
        Stan JonesCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        July 19, 2024

        No change in this, and I do not see a feature request. The UserVoice system was discontinued in favor of submitting Ideas in this forum.

         

        The Wrench icon in Appearance added a "per line" adaptive rather than all lines, and you can create separation (a space between the lines) use the Leading control in the Text section of the Essential Graphics panel.

         

        But you cannot adjust height and width of the background independently.

         

        Stan

         

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