• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Can I change the properties (aspect ratio) of existing subtitles?

  Posted by Tamsyn Reynolds on August 2, 2017 at 9:18 am

  Hi

  I’m about to start editing a documentary and just received the project files from the translator, who subtitled all the rushes. But his project has the wrong settings – 1440X1080 instead of 1920X1080. If I change the sequence settings to match the rushes the titles remain 1440X1080. Apart from looking wrong the whole project is running unworkably slow, which i think is because of the settings.

  Any ideas as to how i can change the subtitle properties?

  Thanks in advance!

  Mathew Virgen replied 8 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Peter Garaway

  August 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm

  Hi Tamsyn,

  [Disclaimer I’m not a captions expert but I believe this should work]

  To change the PAR of the captions, right-click on the caption file in the Project panel > Select Modify > Interpret Footage. From the Modify Clip menu, select Square Pixels from the conform to drop down menu.

  If you need to scale your captions, you can select the captions in the sequence, right-click choose Scale to Frame Size from the menu (not Set to Frame Size).

  Hope this helps. And hopefully, others will chime in if there’s a better method.

  Peter Garaway
  Adobe
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  Mathew Virgen

  December 7, 2017 at 11:36 pm

  I got this one.

  I was having a similar issue. my video is in 1080p but the cc.srt file i was using was coming in at 720. i tried the “set to frame size” thing but it just scaled it up and made the text fuzzy.

  solution: right click on the file in your project tab. got up to [modify>] and select [captions…]. in the video settings section of the window that comes up (under the Captions tab) set the width and height to you video site and you are good to go. nice sharp captions the size of your video.

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