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  • Closed captions

    Posted by Ingólfur Arnar on June 6, 2014 at 1:06 am

    Hey hey everyone!

    I just put subtitles on a short video for a friend, and it looks fine in Premiere pro when I view it straight from the timeline. But no matter what I try, it never exports with subtitles.

    I’ve tried everything. I’ve tried many different settings in the export window and I even thought my Premiere program had a bug so I wiped my computer and reinstalled Premiere but it’s always the same.
    No subtitles 🙁

    My last option is to get FCP and do it all again 🙁

    This is extremely frustrating. Especially because the captions are there! They just don’t want to burn in.
    I’ve also tried to export with a sidecar file and then I was going to use Handbrake or something to burn that in but the format doesn’t work for that. I tried to convert the sub. file to .srt but it comes out all corrupted.

    Anyone here had problems with the closed captioning in Premiere?
    Please help.
    Thank you.

    Kevin Monahan replied 11 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Don Hertz

    June 6, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    It works fine for us. I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “burn in”. Captions don’t burn in. They get embedded into the file and then the person viewing it has to enable captions view in whatever player they are using – if their player supports it. They won’t show up automatically like a traditional burn in.

    It only works with a few formats too. I know it works with Quicktime and MXF as those are the two we use here. Not sure if it works with anything beyond those 2.

    Don Hertz

  • Kevin Monahan

    June 6, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Hi Ingólfur,
    As Don suggested, I think you are confusing subtitles with subtitles. Subtitles should be made in the Titler if that’s what you’re looking for.

    Thanks,
    Kevin

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