• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Closed Captions in Quicktime and Premiere Pro

  Posted by Swami Narayan on April 21, 2014 at 5:15 am

  Hi, Experts,

  I have spent my Easter trying to figure out why Quicktime Pro 7 burns in my closed captions when I want to have them embedded with the ability to import them into my Premiere Pro CC project. After exporting “Movie to Quicktime Movie” in Quicktime neither Quicktime nor PPro CC reckognize the captions anymore and only show them burnt into the video.
  What am I doing wrong or what steps do I have to take to get a separate track for closed captions in PPro CC?
  Which software is the best to create closed captions for use in PPro CC? I know that can be done in PPro CC itself, but I am working with lectures of an hour or more length and hundreds of captions, which are in text files.

  Any advice is highly appreciated.

  Thank you!

  Chris Borjis replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Borjis

  April 21, 2014 at 4:09 pm

  I do quite a bit of captioning within premiere cc.

  I’ve never seen them burned in to a quicktime. In quicktime preferences
  you can enable or disable that it will show the captions.

  also, in premiere cc, there is a preference for it to recognize
  and import embedded captions. by default it is not enabled.

  If I export a quicktime with captions on the track above it
  and in the export settings, embed the captioning, export it,
  then re-import it, the captions will be there.

  For long form such as what you are working on, I would recommend
  the services of web.automaticsync.com you can send them a txt
  file and an mp3 and they can create the captions for you and double
  check them for a reasonable cost.
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  Swami Narayan

  April 23, 2014 at 1:52 am

  Thank you for your explanations.
  In the preferences, of Quicktime as well as in Premiere, I enabled display and import of captions, but still, the captions are not recognized. Even when I export a Quicktime movie with a Text-track for the captions to a new Quicktime movie format, all in Quicktime Player 7, when I open the exported file, the Text-track is gone and the subtitles/captions are burnt into the video. It is frustrating.
  I appreciate your recommendation to a captioning service, but would they be able to work with Bengali and Sanskrit languages inclusive quotes from ancient scriptures, translated into our Western languages? I am afraid, we will have to do that inhouse.
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  Chris Borjis

  April 23, 2014 at 4:13 pm

  [Swami Narayan] ” but would they be able to work with Bengali and Sanskrit languages inclusive quotes from ancient scriptures, translated into our Western languages?”

  probably not.

  But there are other caption service companies out there that might.

  I bid on a job that needed captioning for india and they had special
  font capabilities. just googled it.

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