Soooooo ridiculous that Premiere cannot do this simple task.  We just upgraded to CS6 mc, a good $2k later and we still don't have broadcast needs met.  We broadcast in over 15 million - TV stations and cable head ends- they will not even talk to us if we don't have CC. 

ADOBE!!!  THIS SHOULD BE PRIORITY #1!!

Just let us output to file with CC!!  Please!!

So for the user above looking for an alternative, CPC or Pixeltools are really your only choice.  The Pixeltools guys were going to make a Quicktime plug in to allow for adding CC, not sure if that ever got made, but yeah, step it up adobe!  Give us actual upgrades for our money, only thing good going from CS5 to CS6 is now the audio does not drift with long renders

Just curious as I'm new to Adobe products. I am creating projects in Premier Pro and then sending them to Encore for making them into a DVD. I am captioning videos for a school district's hearing impaired students and English Language Learners. I have been using Encore to add the caption file (.scc) to my project. I did notice that you could attach captions in Premier Pro but, if you can't export them along with the video, what would be the point of even having that option?

The reason I need to attach the captioning files in Premier Pro before creating the DVD is that I am combining multiple short video files with multiple caption files into one DVD project. In Encore, I can only attach one caption file rather than individual files to each piece of video. So I will have to see if my software (CPC) will let me combine all the .scc files into one and then hope that doesn't throw off the timing of the captions. I will submit a feature request but was just curious what purpose the captions serve in Premier Pro. Thanks.

Thanks Kevin. I made a request as well. This has been very frustrating to me as well.

I've used Vegas Pro 10 11 and 12. All have similar ability to work with closed captions. Vegas will embed the closed captioning with Mpg2, and XdCam.mxf files. Basically that depends on whether the file type supports it.  It will also allow you to make external caption files for players like Windows Media, Flash, etc.   I don't recall what capabilities the consumer version of Vegas has for closed captions.     With Vegas Pro, you can also correct captions and reposition captions, not just see them like in Premiere.

would like to step in with a typical usecase:

--> Question: CC is the new buzz word because tv broadcast needs it - but - technicaly subtitles and closed captions are the same thing - a text stream added to the video - so PP sould support both for loading - editing - showing - exporting...

1. We use PP to check projects in realtime during mastering stage (playing 2K DPX, checking 12 channels of audio for sync and also subtitles and CC

2. We have to assemble features from reels - so we get one sub or CC file per reel

3. We have to split Subs or CC into Reels

4. We have to fix errors in Subs or CC on the fly (please insinde PP...)

5. We have to conform them to 24p/25p (video duration changes here)

6. We have to create burn in versions

7. We have to check character and font settings for D-Cinema XML Subtitles

so we hope for some progress here because we don't know of a good external Plugin for CS6 or CC7 to support this and the current workflow doesn't make any sense for us...

--> convert D-Cinema XML Subs or CC to Premiere CC-Format - load it to the programm monitor - check for problems - fix in external XML-Editor - convert - reload in Premiere...