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October 17, 2018
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Open captions text not centre aligned with background

  • October 17, 2018
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Just trying to do some simple open captions (white text with black background) and the text is not in the centre of the background box, which looks pretty bad. Can't seem to change it as all controls change the text and background as one. There's got to be a simple solution...? Any help much appreciated.

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    解決に役立った回答 Stan Jones

    Known issue and no fix yet. I know of no workaround. I reduce the opacity of the background box - sometimes all the way off.

    Problem if burning in; If your exporting srt, it won't matter.

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    Martin Matthias
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    November 10, 2020

    In case you only need burned-in captions, I suggest you to google for SRT-importer scripts for After Effects. In After Effects you have all the stlying possibilities you want. Works like a charm for me!

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    AndyBoreham
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    June 29, 2020

    Hey guys, it seems there still isn't a workaround, but I have found a font that miraculously centers the text, for some reason. The font is called Microsoft Yahei, and it's an okay looking, pretty standard font. Still annoying you can't choose your own font but I think this works well enough. 

    Stan Jones
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    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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    June 29, 2020

    Thanks for that information.

     

    This is an older thread, and the correct answer is not current. Be sure to see the update in this post earlier in this thread:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/open-captions-text-not-centre-aligned-with-background/m-p/10618396#M227257

     

    This font does center the text vertically in the background box. But when adding any edge, even "1," it goes back to the bottom of the box. It is improved by setting Line Spacing to 100 (instead of the default 50).  

     

    I wonder what the difference in this font is that it centers!

     

    Stan

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    VEE CAST
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    June 11, 2020

    can we please FIX THIS!?!!!!!!!!!! I've never had such difficulty with LETTERS

      Stan Jones
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      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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      May 20, 2020

      I just tested in the 2020.2.0 mersion released yesterday. As expected (bug fixes did not mention this one), I see no improvement from the change to "Line Spacing" from 2019.1.3. That did improve the problem shown in the  screen in the original post of this thread.

       

      Stan

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      natnyn
      Participant
      May 20, 2020

      following this thread since i also have this issue and waiting on resolution

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      cato313
      Participant
      April 23, 2020

      is there a fix for this?  It's driving me crazy

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        VideoMaddman
        Participating Frequently
        October 16, 2019

        Yep, it's still doing this for most fonts even after the latest update. 

         

        The workaround is just to set up your captions and apply a "crop" effect to the caption layer and crop down the extra space at the top of the background. 

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          digidgm
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          October 29, 2020

          2 years later and it's still not fixed. Yours is the only actual solution here and it's unfortunate that it hasn't been spotlighted yet.

            Stan Jones
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            Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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            October 16, 2019

            simonweber203, see my responses Sept 19 and Oct 1 at the bottom of this thread. There have been improvements in this issue.

            Stan Jones
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            Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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            October 1, 2019

            Patrick_de, that was confusing. They call it "line height," but the name in the Caption Panel is "Line Spacing." It is to the right of "Edge." It is available only for Open Captions.

            You can set it from 0 to 100. In my test just now, I was getting odd results with captions set to upper right, and perhaps others. 0 sets the text right at the bottom of the background block; 100 makes the background block taller and sets the text just under the middle. This may vary by font; I tested only Arial.

            Stan Jones
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            Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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            September 19, 2019

            Actually....

            I had not looked at this closely enough in recent versions. PR Version 13.1.3 (we are now on 13.1.5 as of yesterday or the day before) had several Caption changes. Two of them were:

            - Added control line height control in caption preferences
            - Handle the line spacing correctly for free positioned lines

            I don't know what the second one does. But the first improves the problem here. A previous update provided the ability to set line height on import. Now there is a line height setting to the right of the Edge setting.

            Give it a try.

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            Patrick de
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            October 1, 2019
            Hi Stan - where are these settings in the program? I have updated to 13.5 but can't find them anywhere. Very annoying issues! Thanks in advance!
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