• Adobe Premiere Pro

  SCC Frame Rate

  Posted by Robert Gilbert on February 10, 2026 at 4:50 pm

  Peace to all

  I’d like to ask if you could please help me understand why Premiere is playing my .scc captions at the wrong frame rate.

  My sequence and my sequence settings are both 23.976 fps and my caption file is also 23.976 fps. Why does Premiere show it as 29.97?

  Even more important than fixing this, I need to know why it’s happening, because I need to be sure it won’t happen on the OTT streaming platforms also.

  The SCC plays back in sync with my video on the Subtitle Edit app. The problem seems to be with Premiere (2023 on Mac).

  I’m certain I’ve never used any other frame rate with this project for editing or for exporting.

  Thanks so much!

  Robert

  Robert Gilbert replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  James Brooks

  February 10, 2026 at 5:01 pm

  The original defintion of SCC only supported drop frame and non drop frame 29.97 timecode/frame rate. A lot of modern software will look at the actual frame rate of the project, and combine the CC to be able to send it out over the same ‘second’ as the 29.97, so everything stays in sync. Not sure if Adobe does this, but that is why it is showing up as 29.97.
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  Robert Gilbert

  February 11, 2026 at 12:52 am

  Thank you very much, James. I think I’ve found the problem in the SCC.

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