Tip #1496: Caption Formats Supported by Premiere Pro
… for Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Tip #1496: Caption Formats Supported by Premiere Pro
Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com
All these options exist because there is no single preferred standard.

The reason there are so many caption formats is that every distributor has a different preference. Here’s a list of the caption formats supported by the 2021 release of Adobe Premiere Pro (v. 15.0.0):
- SCC
- MCC
- XML
- DFXP (W3C TTML)
- SMPTE-TT
- EBU-TT
- STL
- SRT
- DFXMP
Captions can only be embedded in these three pro video formats:
- MXF OP1a
- DNxHD
- ProRes
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To illustrate the diversity of captions, here’s a link to an article showing which caption formats are preferred and supported by social media.
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