How to save and reuse your own caption presets in Premiere Pro (one style per client)

Step by step

1. Get the look you want — Start from a Subkick preset or from the + New card, and adjust it with ✏️ Customize.

2. Save it — Click 💾 on the preset bar: in Save as…, type a name (your client's name, for example) and click Save.

3. Find it again — Your preset appears under My presets in the gallery: click it to apply it to any sequence or project.

4. Keep it up to date — Customize it again whenever you need: your own presets save themselves as you go.

5. Back it up or share it — Open Filters ▾ › 📁 Presets folder and copy its .json file to another computer or send it to a colleague.

Why save your own presets?

Because your look is the part that takes time — and you shouldn’t build it twice. Set a style once for a client (their fonts, their colors, their way of highlighting key words, their sounds), save it, and every new video for that client starts from it in one click.

Subkick Caption already remembers the style of each sequence on its own. A preset is how you carry a look to another sequence or another project, and how you switch between clients without redoing anything.

Why it matters: with one preset per client — “Client A – Podcast”, “Client B – Reels” — a new video is: bring in the text, click the client’s preset, generate. The brand rules live in the preset, not in your memory, and every video of the series looks the same.

What a preset contains

Saved in a preset	Not saved in a preset
Every style: font, size, colors, background, shadow, glow, motion blur	Your text and its timecodes
Each style’s animation and sounds (with volume and timing)	Per-word customizations (a word restyled or moved by hand)
Layout settings: Margins, Height, Line spacing, Word spacing, Global size	Settings of a single block (Block N tab)
Appearance, case and punctuation	The video track, the generation method and the In/Out points
Block splitting: Characters per block, silence and punctuation rules	The video background of the preview
⚡ Compo Auto settings and style roles, Shared effects, Single background for the whole block, the preview background color

How to save a modified Subkick preset (💾 › Save as…)

Subkick presets can’t be overwritten: when you change one, the preset bar shows Based on {name} · not saved — 💾 to keep it. Nothing is written until you decide.

1. Click 💾 on the preset bar.
2. The Save as… window proposes the original name followed by (custom), for example Subkick - Retro 3 (custom). Replace it with your own name if you like.
3. Click Save. The preset appears under My presets and becomes the active one: my preset · saved.

Keeping the Subkick - Family N part of the name keeps your preset in that family when you filter the gallery; any other name puts it under Other. See Choose a preset.

How to create a preset with the + New card

At the end of My presets, the + New card opens the New preset window:

• 💾 Save my current settings — saves what you’re using right now as a new preset. Type its name in Name of the new preset (it proposes My style) and click Save.
• ✨ Start from a blank base — starts from a single plain style, with a fade and no sound, and opens its settings. Build your look, then click 💾 to save it.

The 🎲 Create random card next to it builds a new random preset at every roll; click 💾 to keep the one you like.

How your own presets save themselves

Once a preset is yours, you don’t need to think about saving: while you customize it, every change is written to it. The bar reads my preset · saved.

If you change a setting outside the customization screen (the margins in 3 Layout, for example), the bar shows unsaved changes — 💾: click 💾. On one of your own presets, 💾 opens Save the preset with Overwrite “{name}” or Save as new — the second one is the way to make a variant (“Client A – Shorts” from “Client A – Podcast”).

Tip: before reworking a client’s preset deeply, make a copy with 💾 › Save as new. You keep the version that’s already in use on their videos.

Rename, overwrite or delete a preset

Your own cards in My presets have three buttons (also available with a right-click on the card):

Button	What it does
💾 (right-click: 💾 Overwrite)	Overwrite this preset? — replaces it with your current settings
✏️ (right-click: ✏️ Rename)	New preset name: — renames it (and its file); a name already used shows That name is already taken
✕ (right-click: 🗑 Delete)	Delete this preset? — removes it and its file from the presets folder

Subkick presets have none of these buttons: they always stay available as they are.

Where presets are stored: back up, move, share

Each of your presets is a .json file in Documents/Subkick Caption/presets (Windows: Documents\Subkick Caption\presets), shared by every version of the plugin. Two ways to open the folder:

• in the gallery, Filters ▾ › Display › 📁 Presets folder;
• ⚙ › Settings › Presets › 📁 Open the presets folder.

From there:

1. Back up: copy the folder with your other work files.
2. Move to another computer: copy the .json files into the same folder on the new computer, then restart Premiere Pro so the panel reads them.
3. Share with a colleague: send one .json file; they put it in their own presets folder and restart Premiere Pro.

What travels with a preset file:

• Built-in sounds and the 51 font families installed with Subkick Caption are found automatically on any computer with the plugin.
• Your own sounds are found by file name: the other person needs the same files in their Documents/Subkick Caption/sounds folder — see Add sounds.
• A font you installed yourself must be installed on the other computer too; otherwise that style falls back to a default font.

If a file in the folder can’t be read, the gallery says so under My presets (file(s) in the folder could not be read (skipped)) instead of hiding it silently.

The reset buttons in ⚙ › Settings

• ⚙ › Settings › Presets › Reset: Styles, Animations, Sound sets and Word placement each put one part of the settings in use back to its defaults. They don’t delete your saved preset files.
• ⚙ › Settings › General › Reset › 🔄 Reset everything (like a fresh install): restores every setting and the bundled presets and sounds; your license is kept. Your own presets are kept too, unless you tick Also delete my saved presets (keep only the bundled ones) — this can’t be undone, which is why it asks for a second click.

Note: to start a new look from scratch without touching any of your presets, use + New › ✨ Start from a blank base rather than the reset buttons. All the settings are described in Settings.

To build the look itself, see Customize a caption style and Several styles per caption.

Frequently asked questions

How do I save a caption style as a preset in Premiere Pro?

In Subkick Caption, set your style, then click 💾 on the preset bar of the Style step and type a name in the Save as… window. Your preset appears under My presets in the gallery and applies in one click to any sequence or project.

Can I have a different caption style for each client?

Yes. Save one preset per client in Subkick Caption, named after the client. Each preset keeps its fonts, colors, animations, sounds and layout settings, so switching client is one click in the gallery.

What is saved in a Subkick Caption preset?

The styles (text look, animation and sounds of each one), the layout settings (margins, height, spacing, global size), the appearance mode, case and punctuation, block splitting, Compo Auto settings and the preview background color. Your text, timecodes, per-word customizations, video track and generation method are not part of a preset.

Where are my Subkick Caption presets stored?

Each preset is a .json file in Documents/Subkick Caption/presets, shared by every version of the plugin. Open it from the gallery with Filters ▾ › 📁 Presets folder, or from ⚙ › Settings › Presets › 📁 Open the presets folder.

How do I share a caption preset with a colleague?

Send the preset's .json file from your presets folder. Your colleague puts it in their own Documents/Subkick Caption/presets folder. The built-in sounds and fonts of Subkick Caption are found automatically; any sound or font you added yourself must be on their computer too.

Do my presets survive an update of Subkick Caption?

Yes. Presets live in your Documents folder and are kept across updates. Only ⚙ › Settings › General › Reset everything, with Also delete my saved presets ticked, removes them.