Problem ‘scaling (subtitles) to frame size’ in version 13.0.2

[Neil Orman]

Yes that’s right, thanks Dave, neither ‘set to frame size’ nor ‘scale to frame size’ is working. Nothing is happening when I choose either option.

Very strange, as it always worked before, so I assume it has something to do with my recent PPro upgrade to this version. But this version has been working well in other ways.

Just let me know if you have any guidance, thanks again!

[Blaise Douros]

I believe you can right-click on your captions in the bin, select Modify -> Interpret Footage, and changing the size of the subtitles there. Your captions may need to be set to Open Captions vs Closed Captions for this to work, I don’t recall off the top of my head.

[Neil Orman]

I really appreciate this guidance, Blaise! I am able to modify the captions’ aspect ratio, but can’t seem to get it to the 1080 size of my sequence. So I thought it might be the open/closed captions thing you mentioned as a possible prerequisite, but that option is greyed out. Below are screenshots of what I’m seeing. Please let me know if you or others have any additional thoughts, and thanks again.

[Blaise Douros]

According to your second image, your captions are already at 1920×1080.

Are you just trying to increase the text size? If so, you can do that in the Caption panel: select all your captions from top to bottom, and apply your desired transformations in the toolbar on the top of the Captions panel. I would make sure that your transport bar is hovering on your longest caption in the timeline, so that you can be sure it doesn’t go beyond the borders of the frame when you size it up.

These transformations won’t stay in effect if you export an SRT, but it will stay that way inside Premiere so you can burn your captions into the video, if that’s what you’re after.

[Neil Orman]

Changing the font size worked perfectly, thank you Blaise!! I thought it would lose resolution/quality, but it didn’t at all.
Much appreciated,
Neil

[Andy Mull]

Hey Neil,

I’m having the same issues with Premiere Pro CC 2019 13.1.5 – did you end up finding a solution? All my .srt subtitles are too small, and if I scale them up manually they get pixelated and crunchy. Never had this issue in Premiere CC 2018. SOS!

Cheers,
Andy

[Neil Orman]

Hi Andy,
I was just looking at that PPro project and trying to recall the exact steps I followed. I did eventually solve it, and I’m 99% certain it was through playing with the Import Settings for the caption files. Those were created by a captioning company. I’m attempting to paste a screenshot (below) of what my changed settings looked like, when I got it to work. Let me know if you can’t see it. I believe the key point was to set it to ‘Open captions’ and make sure the aspect ratio was 1920 by 1080. Let me know if that solves it, or you find another solution, because I’d definitely be interested. And I totally agree – adjusting the caption size was never a problem in the 2018 version, so this issue is frustrating!

Neil

13773_captionfileimportsettings.png.zip

[Andy Mull]

My solution was less of a solution per se like Scale To Frame… I just changed the font size manually to 40! It almost was so obvious I didn’t think of it to be a solution (hidden in plain sight), and while it doesn’t solve the problem fully it was a decent work-around. I’ll give your method a go next time I import an .srt (I get these done by an external captioning company too)

Thanks for your response!

[Bouke Vahl]

My solution is here:
Not free, but very versatile and high quality subs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKOZAkhRRM

(Disclaimer, I’m the author of the app…)

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

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