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Aegisub/Subtitle Edit to Premiere Pro
Hi there!
I’m working on a 23,976 fps project and i am currently subtitling it with Aegisub (I can open the .ass file in Subtitle Edit as well). I have big issues with importing the caption file in Premiere – either the subtitles have the wrong position in the picture and don’t fit in completely or the timecode has a shift.So far I didn’t find a good workflow from Aegisub or Subtitle Edit to Premiere Pro.
Thanks in advance!!
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A lot of folks I know have used Annotation Edit to good use. Excellent format support and the developer works hard to have solid support for Premiere Pro
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Looks good, but as a filmschool student are 245 € not in the budget…
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Hello, Zoltan –
I’ve worked with a lot of subtitled content in my time. It really is a pain in the butt, for sure.
I have not found a way to import captions reliably through the premiere caption features.
My best way that I’ve found is actually to use ARscript’s “Subtitle Import” ($29 I think). It imports as an AE file, and you can style it to look really good. You’ll have to use Aegsub to save as a SRT first, though.
Then, you can either render out AE, or embed using Dynamic Link, if your computer is fast enough. This operation seems to be VERY CPU intensive for some reason, so many times I end up just rendering.
If you have an SRT file you’d like me to import into AE for you, I can do one. Give me a ring through the contact for on my website: https://www.storytellersink.net.
R
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I was also a big fan of ‘Subtitle Import’, until a fellow COW member turned me on to this method…
First install ‘Subtitle Edit’, easily found with a Google search. It’s a free subtitle editor that has some nice features.
Then…
Create your subtitles in Subtitle Edit, or import almost any subtitle file that you have already created.
Save as ‘FCP XML + images’ (use PNG’s for image format). Each subtitle will be created as a single PNG graphic. Save these in a folder next to your project’s media.
Import the resulting XML into Premiere. After you import the XML, Premiere will try to find the PNG’s refereenced in it. You may have to locate the first PNG, since they all will probably be showing as offline, but once you’ve shown Premiere where the first one is, it should locate the rest automatically.
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Thank you very much guys, in the meanwhile I found the solution via Subtitle Edit. So far what has worked best for me was transcoding them to an image sequence with alpha inside of Subtitle Edit and export as a Final Cut Pro XML. The pt_ImportSubtitles script is thereby obsolete.
Thank you Steve for your explenation, it’s exactly what I did. I am sure there are enough folks looking for that solution.
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Pretty cool that it’s free too!
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Hello, thank you very much for the explanation about Subtitle Edit.
It works very good, but my titles (png) are in the middle of the screen, how can I edit/adjust this?Hopefully someone can help me.
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I’ve found it, for the people who are also looking for this.
Select the xml on your timeline, and in your previeuw window, you can select the ‘png-xml’ and take it down.
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Hi,
thank you for the solution.
There was a little problem that we would like share if can help someone: the file .xml exported from SubtitleEdit had a different duration, so we have solved adding a faulse subtitle at time 00:00:00:00 and importing the .xml file in a new sequence (inside Premiere) where it was easy assign the right duration (given by the last subtitle).
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Unfortunately it looks like subtitle edit’s timing is still off.
I’ve noticed that 29.97 gets imported as 29 fps, 23.97 gets imported as 23 fps and so on.
The longer the duration of the video, the more the timing gradually gets thrown off. I’ve taken a camtasia video showing the problem to the developer and really hoping they can fix it, but it could be a premiere pro problem. Has anyone tried it on FCP to see if it works fine?
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