If your captions in Premiere Pro look wrong and you’ve got 50+ subtitles sitting in your timeline, you can highlight them all and change the fonts and size all at once.
Step 1: Locate Your Caption Track
The caption track is usually located in the timeline on top spot, labeled as ‘C1 Subtitle’.
Step 2: Open the Properties panel
Go to the ‘Window’ menu at the top of the screen and enable ‘Properties’ (previously known as Essential graphics).
Step 3: Select All Your Captions
Go back to the timeline and highlight all the captions in your caption track. You can create a selection or you can use Track select forward tool [shortcut A], hold down the shift key and click at the beginning of caption track 1. This will highlight every single track. Make sure you’re not highlighting video and audio clips otherwise this technique will not work.
Step 5: Change the Font
Navigate back to Properties panel and change the font, size, colour, and position to your liking. With your captions selected, they will all change. Remember, the font you choose can really set the mood for your video, so choose wisely!
Common mistake (this is why it “doesn’t work”)
If nothing changes, it’s almost always because:
- you selected video + captions together
- or only one caption is selected
Premiere is weird about this. You need a clean selection of captions only.
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