Managing subtitles in Premiere Pro CC 2015.3

In case people still need a workaround for the 720x480 mismatch issue...

Use Scale to Frame Size (not Set to Frame Size) and the text should retain resolution when scaled. And if you need to reposition, use the Effect Controls, not the Captions positioning.

Hello,

still no way to change font, size etc for all subtitles at once?

Hello, exporting SRT sidecar captions from within Premiere, they come out of sync, appearing dealayed compared to the video although in Premiere they are spot on.

Any suggestion?

Besides all the lack of basic functionalities already discussed (not being able to format ALL subtitles, the small resolution), I'm having a couple of issues:

- I have imported a SRT file and the sync is correct, but Premiere doesn't replace formatting tags (i.e. <i> </i>), which appear throughout the files. So every time a tag is used, it appears on screen.

I have tried to export the subtitles in every possible format and encoding (someone mentioned using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8) but no luck.

- Also, every time I make a change on a subtitle, the screen doesn't update. I have to quit and restart Premiere so the subtitle will update on the screen.

I'm talking about subtitles (burn in), not closed captions.

If any of you can help I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance!

This could be a great tool but it's quite useless right now, for me at least.

Hi Everyone -

This thread is very helpful - Thanks for all the information!

I've successfully created my captions but I'm having some export issues -

As you can see from the pictures below, when burning in the captions some of them are getting cut off - this is one example, but in the 5 pieces I've created CC for, they all seem to be having this issue.  I'm on the updated Premiere Pro CC v9.2

I'm on a pretty tight deadline and any insight as to what maybe the problem is appreciated!

Thank you!

I agree with what has been said and would also like to add that it seems like German SRT files are broken when imported into 2015.3

They appear with asterisks instead of accent marks, and in some cases random letters are missing. This was not an issue with 2015.2

Currently needing to create formatted subtitles from caption files in titler and the lack of global settings and poor German language support make any new changes to the captions a complete waste and an even bigger waste of time than manual subtitle creation.

I'm having the same issues. I think they need to add the border option to the caption editor, rather than manually adding a drop shadow.

If you click "source settings", the media offline image appears and you can't get it back. This doesn't even make sense since it's text, not media.

The SD resolution doesn't make sense either. If you scale it up in a HD timeline it gets blurry. It also is stuck in 20% 4:3 title safety. I want to use 10% 16:9 safety.

The lack of global style options also is horrible. If I were to import a srt with 50 captions, I'd have to click every single one to change the style.

In its current state, I'd say this tool is useless. It's a shame because it could save me so much time, instead of having to render them outside of Premiere with an alpha.

I usually use Avid Media Composer's sub cap plugin to subtitle which is quite a comprehensive tool. So when I attempted to use the open captions feature in Premiere, that was the benchmark. Unfortunately, it fell far too short. We are producing content for global audiences nowadays, and subtitling is a key requirement for content producers. Here's hoping Adobe addresses this soon. At least it's a step in the right direction for now.

drop shadow is not very good looking, as you always need to put it in one direction. a border is far better looking for subtitles. also it seems the font used as caption doesn't render so nicely. a bit blocky.

what i would prefer is the style options of the title editor, but the text-entry option of the caption screen. plus, of course, a way to select multiple captions and change the font settings at once.

you should not disable background without the option of a border for the font! why not make that possible? almost all movies with subtitles have a nice font with a black border, only cheap films have the full black background.

and of course the option to change setting for all titles at once!! just crtl+a, and change font setting for all would be wonderful. why isn't this possible??? big oversight!

for subtitling i think premiere is nearly there... but sadly it's still not usable in a professional way.

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