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Upgrading from 1.9

How to move from Brevidy 1.9 to 2.0, what happens to captions you made in 1.9, and where familiar features went.

Brevidy 2.0 draws captions with its own Premiere effect instead of Essential Graphics templates (MOGRTs). Your 1.9 projects keep working, and you can keep editing most old captions.

Update to 2.0#

Save your open projects first. If you share projects with people on 1.9, update together.

Updating inside the 1.9 panel takes two Premiere restarts:

  1. When the panel shows Brevidy 2.0.x is available., click Update now.
  2. Restart Premiere.
  3. Open the Brevidy panel. It installs the Brevidy Captions effect. On Windows, click Install now, then Yes.
  4. Restart Premiere again when the notice says Restart Premiere Pro to finish.

Your old captions#

Captions made in 1.9 have a Legacy badge in the set switcher and play as before.

On a legacy setWhat happens
Edit words, retime, change style, export, deleteWorks as is
Sync, Add Transcription, cutting (including Remove silences)Upgrades the set first
Rename, Hide in Premiere, New translation…, fit pasted captionsNot available

Upgrade old captions to 2.0 captions#

The upgrade keeps your words, timing and styles, and each split caption clip's position and size. It uses no minutes.

  1. Run Sync, Add Transcription or a cut on the legacy set.
  2. On Upgrade to native captions, click Confirm.
  3. Wait for Captions upgraded.
Upgrade to native captions prompt saying the captions use the old Essential Graphics format, that words, timing and styles are kept and no minutes are used, with the Confirm, Re-transcribe instead and Cancel buttons

Want a fresh transcript instead? Click Re-transcribe instead. This uses minutes.

Upgraded captions keep their 1.9 timing and don't follow later edits on their own. When you click Sync, Brevidy asks whether to re-transcribe them. To caption footage you added next to them, re-transcribe the set. See Imported and upgraded captions.

  • Upgraded captions can't be edited in 1.9. If someone still edits the project in 1.9, leave the set alone.
  • Unlock <tracks> to upgrade these captions. Unlock those tracks and try again.
  • Old captions stay on: you created captions over visible 1.9 captions. Hide or delete the old ones.

Where things moved#

In 1.9In 2.0
Set In and Out points, then createDrag the caption layer, then click Create
The ⋮ menuYour account picture at the top right
Re-SyncSync at the bottom of the panel
Re-TranscribeClear Transcript Cache in the account menu, then create again. Uses minutes
Export SRTExport captions… in the set switcher
Import SRTor import from SRT in the Create window, or Import captions… in the set switcher
Translate while transcribingNew translation… in the set switcher
Active Text and Misc style tabsSpoken and Block in the Style window

Go back to 1.9#

In the panel (Brevidy 2.0.14 or later), the easiest way:

  1. Click your account picture, then Settings.
  2. Under Brevidy 1.9, click Go back to Brevidy 1.9.
  3. Click Go back to 1.9.
  4. When the notice says 1.9 is installed, restart Premiere.

On the website:

  1. Sign in and open your Account page.
  2. Turn on Stay on Brevidy 1.9. The switch alone doesn't install 1.9.
  3. Under it, click Download Brevidy 1.9, then click Download Brevidy 1.9 on the page that opens.
  4. Quit Premiere, run the installer, then open Premiere.

You can also start from Releases: its Go back to Brevidy 1.9 button turns on the switch and downloads 1.9 in one step.

While Stay on Brevidy 1.9 is on, 1.9 won't offer 2.0 updates.

Your projects: nothing is deleted. 2.0 captions and titles keep playing and exporting, but 1.9 can't edit them. Don't click Create New over them in 1.9, or you'll get two sets.

Come back to 2.0:

  1. Turn off Stay on Brevidy 1.9 on your Account page.
  2. Open Premiere and click Update now when 1.9 offers 2.0.
  3. Restart Premiere.

On a team, your admin's version setting wins over your own Stay on Brevidy 1.9. See Brevidy versions on a team.

Good to know#

Checked against Brevidy 2.0.14