Subtitles in Premiere - how to change the text format?

[megana16362010]

Hi there!!!

I'm under a deadline and really need some support with this. Anyone that has a workflow for this that works for them please chime in! Thanks so so mcuh!

Here's my situation: I'm creating subtitles in Spanish using a program called InqScribe. This program allows me to export the file as a .SRT file.

From there, I am able to import the .SRT file to Premiere, drag it onto my timeline to match the video, no problem!

However, here's where I'm stumped:

1) I need to be able to change the caption style (text formatting, color, size, position and background color) of the open captions all at once.

--Right now I can only seem to go into each individual caption to change the format.-- This is incredibly time consuming.

I would prefer to have a White letters without a black background and add a drop shadow. (I know how to do this for each individual caption)

2) Is there a workflow where I can customize the format of the subtitles BEFORE importing it to Premiere?

Anyone that can help with this I would greatly appreciate it. I remember using Final Cut and being able to customize the subtitles all at once. Maybe I'm just missing a simple step? I'm somewhat new to Premiere .

Thanks all,

Megan

[jaakko.pontinen]

Hello, Megan.

Once you open the Capions editor in Premiere CC, you can select multiple items and modify their font/colors etc. at once. Do one of the following:

EDIT: This is for Windows users, but I bet there's something awfully similar to be done with Apple or Linux (Are there Adobe products for Linux? I don't know)

Selecting ALL subtitles for editing (Fig. 1):

1. Right click on any subtitle (NOT inside the box where the actual subtitle text is)

2. Click on "Select All"

Fig 1

Selecting subtitles between two points (Fig. 2 and 3)

1. Select the subtitle you want to start your selection from. Select by clicking on the little preview left of the "In" and "Out" times.

2. Hold down the Shift key and click on the last/first subtitle you want to select. This will select all the subtitles between your first and last selection. Now you can modify all their properties at once.

Fig 2

Fig 3

Selecting some subtitles (Fig. 4):

1. Hold down CTRL while clicking on all the individual subtitles to select each of them for editing at once.

So, there's a way to select all subtitles. Hope this helps you. Also hope that you finished your project in time. And yeah, the subtitle editor in Premiere CC is clumsy. I'm having issues with it at the moment and going to post about them right now.

- Jaakko