This is by design. We always keep captions within safe margins (10%). Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together. Opinions welcome.
Y'all I love and appreciate your work. But it has been a year and a half, and this nanny setting is still inexplicably forced with no way to disable. Please, please bump this to a higher priority.
An option is fine, but a restriction makes Premiere's captioning nigh unworkable. I have to rely on third-party programs like Descript to generate my captions, because of this strange and antiquated restriction.
You don't restrict other elements the same way, so why this? If my clients don't like where I placed their captions, they won't blame Adobe. They'll blame me, their editor—same as they would if I placed footage out of frame, or made some other edit out of spec.
It's a total pain - I've got old videos that need revising but the subtitle is now too high - The WHOLE set of videos will now have to be recreated - What a stupid limitation causing a lot of problems.
19 months after asking us "Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together", yet Adobe has not fixed this issue for its users. What's taking so long?
It should be a simple matter of allowing captions to be converted over to regular essential graphics media so that they can be manipulated as we see fit.
This is by design. We always keep captions within safe margins (10%). Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together. Opinions welcome.
This is a feature request carried over from UserVoice, started Feb 23, 2021, soon after the introduction of the new caption workflow. When posted here on 1/24/23, it had 146 votes.
Francis Crossman (Sr. Product Manager, Adobe DVA) responded 4/15/21 with the response that is now here in this thread. Just now, it may appear just before the post I am writing!
“This is by design. We always keep captions within safe margins (10%). Would an option to defeat this restriction be useful or is it better to remove this safeguard all together. Opinions welcome.”
The PR 2021 workflow actually improved the routine positioning of captions to 5%, and in the PR 2023.1 release, the “Upgrade Caption to Graphic” was introduced. This converts captions to graphics items and moves them from the Captions Track to a video track, where they can be animated – or moved to any position on the screen. Personally, I agreed with the Adobe decision to prioritize converting captions to graphic items, since it allows animation of many kinds, in addition to positioning. Nonetheless, it is clear that users, in the social media age, want the ability to move captions to the extreme edge of the screen.
In my opinion, a preference for allowing full movement would be best.
A variety of workarounds may no longer be useful with the Upgrade Caption to Graphic. But some were discussed here:
@Francis-Crossman – Users have been requesting this ability for a long time now, including on UserVoice where people have been pleading with you personally. Please let people move captions to any position on-screen as needed. There is no reason for Premiere to force its users to jump through these workarounds to do something they used to be able to do fairly simply. I love the new Graphics system overall, but this is a major achilles heel.
@Francis-Crossman - You said exactly the same thing in 2021. Verbatim. You solicited opinions on UserVoice, with pages of comments from people pleading for this fix. Is there any meaningful update on this now that we're in 2023?
As an aside, I love Adobe Creative Cloud's ad campaign about providing tools to allow people to creating anything your imagination can dream up. Yet we still can't move captions on-screen where we want to in Premiere? Come on.
Thanks for emphasizing this important feature request.
Francis Crossman's comment in the UserVoice system was copied over, same as all the others. You can see that the date of all the comments here is the same - yesterday, when this particular UserVoice request was transferred.
As I said in my post here, things have changed - and improved - since this but this request remains an important one.
Shifting captions to the bottom of the screen is a brilliant move for enhancing user experience, especially for those reliant on captions to grasp content. Placing captions at the screen's bottom prevents visual obstructions and distractions, ensuring a seamless viewing experience. This thoughtful adjustment not only prioritizes accessibility but also contributes significantly to inclusivity. Kudos for this user-friendly enhancement, which undoubtedly improves website usability for all. Well done
I was shocked to see that since my post 1/25/23, there are only 12 more upvotes! I suspect that so many users want animation, this limited request to move captions to the bottom is no longer as high a priority.
This request has been here so long, and Adobe proves again they just don't care about the needs of customers. They have gone from a creative partner to being a marketing money generator and abandoned their initial calling.
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