… 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.