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  • Export subtitles as time-coded transcript?

    Posted by Elizabeth Johnson on February 7, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    Hi all,

    I’m working on a film that requires a lot of translation. Instead of creating a timecoded translated transcript, I did much of the translation as subtitles within a Final Cut Pro 7 project file. Is there a way I can export these subtitles as a text document with timecodes? Some third party software I can use?

    I could also bring the whole project into Premiere and try to export it that way. Does anyone have suggestions? It would be too time-consuming and complicated to copy and paste them all, and too much work has been done on hundreds of hours of footage.

    Thanks for any advice!

    Elizabeth Johnson replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Simon Ubsdell

    February 8, 2017 at 5:08 pm

    Check out Title Exchange Pro from Spherico:

    https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/

    It does an incredible variety of things and should be ideal for your FCP 7 project.

    Don’t take it into Premiere as this will make the process a lot more tricky.

    Simon Ubsdell
    tokyo productions
    hawaiki

  • Elizabeth Johnson

    February 9, 2017 at 7:59 pm

    Thank you, Simon! Have you used it yourself? Were you able to make an actual time-coded transcript and did you have to do any modifications to it?

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  • Simon Ubsdell

    February 9, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    I’ve used it in numerous different ways and on pretty much every subtitle job we ever do.

    The simplest method for you purposes it is take an XML out of FCP 7 and turn it into a Text file that you can then edit, and turn back into whatever type of subtitle file you choose.

    But that’s just the simplest option – there are countless possibilities, depending on your needs.

    I can’t recommend it enough.

    Simon Ubsdell
    tokyo productions
    hawaiki

  • Elizabeth Johnson

    February 10, 2017 at 7:09 pm

    Thank you, that’s really helpful!!

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