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cconochalla
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July 16, 2018
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Subtitles

  • July 16, 2018
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I have the most updated version of Premiere CC trying to make SUBTITLES. All your tutorials say "oh yeah, super easy and visual, you get to choose background, font, color etc!!!!!" nope. When it actually displays on my video...... it's in ugly caption form and none of the style or type options function. What's the deal?

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 16, 2018

You need to select Open Captions to be able to change font, color etc.

cconochalla
Known Participant
July 16, 2018

open captions doesn't display text on the video at all

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 16, 2018

Make sure the video settings are the same as you sequence.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 16, 2018

I am assuming you are making captions/subtitles, and not creating "titles" as subtitles.

There are several types of captions/subtitles.

Did you import a subtitles/captions file?

Whether you did or created a new captions stream, what kind of stream is it? Open or closed, etc.

The methods for changing font colors, etc, varies based on caption type.

cconochalla
Known Participant
July 16, 2018

File>New>Caption>CEA-708>text color yellow (works)>background color transparent (does not work)>opacity control as per Adobe support instructions non existent