Moving subtitles to video layers
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I’m now actively using Premiere Pro 2021 and want to change the subtitles I’ve generated using the new caption features into more traditional text layers in order to add dissolves. Does anyone know if this can be done without doing a cut and paste of the hundreds of subtitle text bits? (Hi Oliver!)
Unfortunately this can’t be done (anymore).
Even though the new captions look like “GraphicAndType” items, they are still a special kind of captions. So a a single caption can’t be copied from the caption track and then be pasted into a normal track.
While in 2020 you where able to export the captions and re-import as “GraphicsAndType” text layers using 3rd party apps (for example my premiereTitles) this is not possible anymore since the format for “GraphicsAndType” data storage has changed as well.
Latter also prevents users from exporting “GraphicsAndType” as captions as well.
Can it be rendered with alpha?
Then re-import and cut for dissolves?
I know sounds like a lot of work 🙁
Sure you can do, but then you have to do “1000s of cuts and deletes” before applying transitions. 😖
I realized I only had to alter the specific ones I wanted to do the fades on. So there is still cut and paste but there are not hoops through which one must jump….
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