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  cleaning up text subtitles file for encore and after effects

  Posted by Tielman Dewaele on September 25, 2012 at 11:27 am

  Hello,

  A company send us some subtitles .txt files.
  We are planning to use this with adobe encore.
  We also using some of the subtiles in After Effects(with a script pt_importsubtitles) where we need to integrate it in a specific lay out/animation.

  As we understood, encore and the script can import those files
  when files look like this:

  3 00:00:45:01 00:00:49:22 Nous avons dû donner
  tout ce que nous avions avec nous.

  However the ones we got look like this:

  00:00:45:01 00:00:49:22
  Nous avons dû donner
  tout ce que nous avions avec nous.

  Some of the videos are 3 min long, but others almost an hour.

  So we need to put a NR before every timecode(see example: 3), remove a tab between each timecode, remove an enter and add a space.

  Its obvious we need a text editor.
  What editor program could we use to achieve(accetly) this?
  Has anyone had a similar problem. What exactly did you do?

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  Matthew Keane replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matthew Keane

  September 25, 2012 at 2:48 pm

  I like TextWrangler, which is free and can handle all kinds of gnarly regular expressions for searching-and-replacing, which can sort out jobs like that in minutes.

  Matthew Keane

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  – Motion Graphics, Video Editing & Effects, Watchout Programming & Live Operation.

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