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johns65970928
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January 24, 2023
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Auto-generated captions should not have line-breaks in the middle of sentences..

  • January 24, 2023
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When editing captions I often resize the bounding box depending if they are one line or two. Auto-generated captions always have line breaks - sometimes after a single word. Which means going to each caption block just to delete these superfluous spacings

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 18, 2024

@Ajed, let's see if @johns65970928 is still with us....

 

There are multiple factors that determine how captions format. In PR 2023, the latest 24.6.1, and a recent Beta (25.1.8), I can get captions all on one line. But I can break that just by changing the font, the font size, the number of characters per line in the caption creation settings, etc.

 

I'm assuming we're talking subtitles (max 72 characters per line) and not, for example, 608 with a max of 42.

 

I'm not arguing against making the options more flexible; I just want to test how PR is currently working with a desired workflow, and what the goal is.

 

Stan

Inspiring
September 17, 2024

Was really hoping NOT to find this is a widespread problem, but after years, can we really not improve this feature?  It's popular, it's a huge time saver and it's buggy of course.  That said, exactly how much coding would be necessary to FIX this one problem?  I mean, leave new features alone for 2 days, fix the code, thousands happier.  Too much?