Captions disappearing on drag

The "drag past" example was my attempt to create the problem. But dragging past just leaves the caption against the next one; it doesn't disappear.

No, the timings in a caption stream do not update if the entire stream is moved. For Open Captions, you can get the revised timings by selecting the SEQUENCE in the Project Panel, then File -> Export -> Captions. But formatting can be an issue.

Thanks Stan I will try tomorrow and send the screenshot. 

I am not attempting to drag past another caption though. Just to extend the time the caption is showing. 

Also if you set caption times and then you move the whole stream towards the right or left shouldn't the caption times update? Please let me know if they do for you as they do not for me. 

Try the screencapture again, but this time, put the Caption Panel to the left rather than the Project Panel. If you don't have it in your workspace, to get the Caption Panel, Window -> Caption Panel.

Try making the changes in the Caption Panel. It is more reliable. Dragging in the timeline may work, but it has frequent problems. a) As I suspect you are finding, it is hard to drag the individual caption rather than grabbing the whole caption stream and moving it. b) Dragging in the timeline does not appear to have any error check. If you change the time in the Caption Panel, and you try to move into another captions space, it gives an error.

I cannot reproduce what you show. If I drag a caption to the right all the way past the next caption, it stops at that caption and is all there. If I drag it to the left past the previous caption, I get the "1 frame" caption Ann describes. I do not see the 1 frame caption on the timeline.

You may also be seeing other problems, where changes to captions do not appear in the Program or Source Monitors. We'll address that once it is clear that is what you are also seeing.

Have you duplicated a caption stream at any point in this project?

Stan

The times are saying it is there but nothing shows in the video. Also, again I don't understand why it is doing that I have tried it now multiple times on all the captions and they just keep reducing to one frame and not showing.

Also why do caption times not update if you drag out the caption area? very frustrating so far.

Could you explain why extending it out as seen in the video would reduce it to one frame? and also why nothing shows at that frame when playing it despite writing in a caption?

It is not at the time it is saying nor is it in the single frame. Even if that is the case why would it do that when I am extending it?

It did not disappear you reduced it to one frame.

Zoom in on the timeline so you can see better what you are doing.

Also watch the timecodes in the dialog box.