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January 24, 2023
Under Review

Multiple caption tracks visible for accessibility

  • January 24, 2023
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In the previous version of Premiere Pro, I was able to add multiple captions and make them visible in order to have English/Spanish on screen. But in the latest version (Version 15.0.0) only one track of captioning is available.

This makes it hard for those of us who are working on making our videos accessible to multiple audiences. Please bring back the ability to have multiple tracks of captioning visible at the same time.

170 replies

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 7, 2025

Allowing Multiple Caption Tracks on screen is being added as part of translation of captions - but it will not be limited in how you can apply it. This is only available in the Beta version:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-translate-captions-for-premiere-pro/td-p/15000319

 

I added some observations in that thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-translate-captions-for-premiere-pro/m-p/15075060#M10951

 

Stan

 

Known Participant
June 4, 2024

For me it's being able to see both for timing and translation. I don't aee a circumstance where I'd have more than one kanguage on screen at once. But I see that other oeople could have that need. Why not allow it?

also to be able to have one speaker possbly justified left and the other justified right simultaneously.  

Participant
June 4, 2024

This is not implemented yet ? The design is bad, change it please. 
"But I understand why you might need two tracks visible at the same time." You say this but you don't even concider making a bad choice for the "design" of this feature

Adobe should'nt be the one safe guarding mistake, we make the mistakes, we learn. That's how it works

Known Participant
April 26, 2023

Related, but different. 

 

I have 14 languages of captions. I want to make sure that all caption blocks are landing exactly the same. Even if I ~ to make my timeline full screen, I can't see all caption tracks. And the line that separates caption tracks from video tracks can't be pulled lower like the line separating video from audio. 

 

My request is to make that line dynamic so that I can pull it down and see however many caption tracks I have.

mattyboy1980
Known Participant
January 26, 2023

@Longish point taken on closed captions - to clarify I was meaning exporting for any shows where captions are burnt into the broadcast master. 

Participating Frequently
January 26, 2023

If this doesn't 'do' 608 and 609 captions for broadcast - then the work around is useless for people that want to produce Closed Captions.

Covering for Adobe because you can do socmed captioins doesn't help professional broadcast editors.

mattyboy1980
Known Participant
January 26, 2023

@baarokun what are you talking about? Of course they are used the same for social media. It's my job to do captions for social media. Converting captions to graphics has made this process EASIER as you now have more options to manipulate the text with effects and change the position (which can be restricted on normal captions).  And also I can see as many captions tracks on screen as I want at the same time. Works exactly the same for TV subtitles. If you don't want them embedded in your video you can just hide the layer on export. The only thing different at the moment is that you can't export the graphics tracks to an srt, and this is something I mentioned to Francis. There is a workaround for that also, but I'm sure in future updates they will endeavour to help wmake this easier. 

Participant
January 26, 2023

@mattyboy1980 Captions and Graphics are two different things, they are not used the same for embed TV subtitles or for Social Media, the clic away doesn't resolve the core problem 

mattyboy1980
Known Participant
January 26, 2023

@baarokun it's literally one click of your mouse

Participant
January 26, 2023

@mattyboy1980 yeah but this is a workaround.. not a solution