Premiere Pro caption presets

Premiere Pro has two things people mean by "caption preset": the creation preset in the Create captions dialog (line length, lines, format) and the Track Style that controls how captions look. Save both once and captioning a new video takes two clicks.

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Creation presets

In the Create captions dialog, set your format, max characters per line and number of lines, then use the preset menu at the top to save them. Next time, pick the preset and the settings load. A short-form preset with Subtitle, 18 characters and a single line is the one most people want.

Track Styles

Style one caption in Essential Graphics (font, size, color, stroke, background), then choose Create Style from the Track Style dropdown. Track Styles are saved with your project and sync through Creative Cloud libraries if you put them there, so the same look works across projects.

Sharing presets between machines

Track Styles live inside the project. To carry them to another computer, put the styled caption into a Library, or keep a template project that you duplicate for every new edit. There is no separate preset file to copy.

Animated caption presets

Native presets are static styles. The animated looks you see on social (highlighted word, bounce, pill background) aren't something Premiere's caption track can store. Those presets come from plugins that generate caption graphics, where a preset includes the animation as well as the font and colors.