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Open Captions from a text file
I recently produced a DVD that I created a subtitle track with Adobe Encore CS5. The client has now requested that they would rather have the text on the screen the whole time, rather than selectable subtitles. They also would rather have nice smooth type, rather than the DVD generated subtitles which look aliased.
Is there any way to import a text file with timecode into Premiere Pro CS5 as a graphics track? As far as I know, Premiere doesn’t deal with subtitles, is this correct? The client is paying so there may be an option do purchase additional software. Although if I could keep the workflow within Premiere that would be great.
Thanks,
-Ben
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3 Replies
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Create a new title in Premiere, copy from your text file version of your subtitle track into the active Premiere title. Drag it to the timeline and place it as a lower-third. You now have an open caption.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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I was assuming there would be something more automated than copying and pasting title by title. The show is 45 minutes long. I am pretty sure there is other software that will actually make a quicktime file to overlay in Premiere, but I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to do this right in Premiere.
-Ben
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I haven’t done this in a while, but IIRC there is a program called SubRip that rips the subtitles off a DVD then creates text based titles using OCR. There will be some text errors to correct, but may be better than doing them one by one. At this point in the process you will have to get the text into an XML format. Now I would look at a program like Annotation Edit which might be able to import the SubRip file and then export an XML.
Not sure if this will work, but worth a look see if you still need the workflow.
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