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Open Captions-Is there a plugin?
I’m working on a project with 50 videos that I need to ‘Open Caption’. Basically I’m having to create a new text file for each caption of dialogue. Is anyone aware of a plugin to speed the process up?
Greg Jones
D7,Inc. -
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You can use Photoshop’s data set feature and batch create them, then import the photoshop files and cut them into place.
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Michael Hancock
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Thanks. I’m not familiar with that, but I’ll look into it.
Greg Jones
Orlando,Fl.
https://www.d7-inc.com -
It’s pretty awesome, and incredibly powerful. Here’s the Adobe info on it:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7417a.html
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Michael Hancock
Editor -
Luckily, the new Premiere Pro CC will include support for SCC cation files. Until then, here is the method we’ve been using which automates quite a bit of the process.
First, you need a transcript of your videos. You may already have this. We’ve had poor success with Premiere Pro’s Speech Analysis, so we send our videos out to a transcription service.
Next, once you have your transcript in hand, use a program like Subtitle Workshop to develop a subtitle file(SRT). There are many such programs out there, but we like Subtitle Workshop, plus it’s free.
Then use this most excellent After Effects plugin, ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’, which can be found easily by Googling. It’s only $25. ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’ will directly import the SRT file created by Subtitle Workshop, giving you a timeline of the subtitles to then place directly over your video, either by rendering a separate video file, or via Dynamic Linking.
If you need to edit the subtitles, simply edit the SRT file back in Subtitle Workshop and reimport in After Effect with ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’.
This is by far the easiest and most automated workflow that we’ve been able to find. Once you quickly get used to it, you’ll be amazed at how fast you can add subtitles, or ‘open’ captions.
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Steve, do you know if the scc file can be used with open caption option now found in PP 15.3?
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