Caption¶
A caption track on a sequence.
Premiere keeps captions on their own kind of track - a data track, the
third track group every sequence carries next to its video and audio
ones. ExtendScript can create these (Sequence.createCaptionTrack) but
never exposed their contents.
Source code in src/py_premiere/models/caption.py
Attributes¶
format
property
writable
¶
The track's broadcast caption format. Read/write.
The file stores ExtendScript's CAPTION_FORMAT_* constant split in
two: Format holds its low word and SubFormat the high one (the
three Teletext variants), and SUBTITLE elides both - so an
absent Format reads as SUBTITLE. Swept straight off Premiere's
own createCaptionTrack for all seven formats.
Methods:¶
__init__ ¶
One caption on a caption track.
Premiere stores a caption twice: as a track item carrying its
frame-aligned placement on the timeline, and inside the imported caption
stream carrying the source times it was authored with. start and end
are the timeline ones; source_start and source_end are the stream's.
Source code in src/py_premiere/models/caption.py
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Attributes¶
background_color
property
writable
¶
The caption background's colour. Read/write.
Setting any background property also raises the group's enable flag (the Appearance panel's Background checkbox) - stored background values do not render without it.
background_corner_radius
property
writable
¶
The background's corner radius. Read/write.
background_size
property
writable
¶
The background's size (its padding). Read/write.
fill_color
property
writable
¶
The text's fill colour. Read/write.
Named from 82_caption_style_sweep, where the panel's fill was set
to the sentinel RGB(11, 22, 33). Reads None when the caption
has never been styled and stores no colour at all - Premiere then
renders its format's default; setting one adds the field.
font_family
property
writable
¶
The font family the caption is set in. Read/write.
Stored as a string in the payload's font vector. Premiere resolves an unknown family to a fallback on open, so setting one it does not have will not stick.
font_size
property
writable
¶
The caption's font size, as the captions panel shows it. Read/write.
Stored inside the styled-text payload: every as-imported caption carries a per-run override (48.0), and a caption styled to the block-level base value (100.0) stores no override at all - decoded against 29_captions, 64_caption_style and 80_subtitle_font_size_75, with the panel values confirmed by hand.
Setting a size gives this caption's timeline block its own payload copy under a fresh hash, exactly as Premiere's own edit does; the imported stream's copy keeps its style, and Premiere refreshes the hash on open.
leading
property
writable
¶
The line leading. Read/write.
Block-level, unlike the run-level fill and stroke: it applies to the whole caption.
source_start
property
¶
The start as the imported caption stream states it. Read-only.
Unlike start, this is not rounded to a frame boundary.
stroke_color
property
writable
¶
The text's stroke (edge) colour. Read/write.
Setting any stroke property also raises the group's enable flag (the Appearance panel's Stroke checkbox) - stored stroke values do not render without it.
text
property
writable
¶
The caption text. Read/write.
Setting it splices the new string into the styled-text payload, preserving the styling around it, and gives this caption's block its own payload copy under a fresh hash - what Premiere's own edit does. Empty text is refused: the format identifies its text as the payload's last string, so an empty one cannot be read back.