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Closed Captions in Adobe Premiere
Hello.
I have a file that has embedded closed captions in it. The file is a recording of a live broadcast that had 608 captions embedded live, and then saved using a AJA HELO device.
The file is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zb0t88uph1vynew/AABjVMdiY4OuGqMJ9bk6cpQMa?dl=0
When I open the file in VLC, I can see the captions. No issue.
But Adobe Premiere does not see the embedded captions in the file. QuickTime Player also doesn’t recognize the captions.Any ideas?
Thanks.
Imry
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14 Replies
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A quick thing to look at would be in the preferences – media menu, make sure you have ‘include captions on import’ checked.
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Yes. It’s checked.
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I don’t see any captions in VLC.
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools\”He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
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You have to activate “Captions” in VLC. They’re no on by default. Also – the captions starts a few seconds into the video.
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Yes, I know.
But there is nothing.
BTW: an H264 normally doesn’t contain CCs from live recording.Are you sure that there is no side car file?
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools\”He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.\” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
The captions are there:
But you are right in that only VLC can see them. My question is – why? Is it the recording? The encoding? Something else?
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So…when I create a new project in Premiere, add captions to it, and try to export it with embedded captions, I can only do it in “QuickTime” file format. And that format doesn’t support H.264 encoding. If I export the file in QuickTime ProRes, it has embedded captions that I can see in Premiere and QuickTime Player. But VLC player doesn’t see those captions.
A QuickTime file encoded in H.264 can have embedded captions, but then Premiere and QuickTime Player can’t see them.
Is there no way around this?
I need files that are 2-3 hours long, with embedded captions. I can’t use ProRes for that. The files would be far too large.
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I don’t see any captions, that’s why I asked for side car files.
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools\”He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.\” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
Imry – I have posted a work around to this problem in reply to your other post in the other thread here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/1003531It’s multiple steps and may or may not work for you, but it’s what I’m doing to get H.264 files with closed captions embedded from projects edited in the current version of Premiere Pro.
Good luck!
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Thanks!
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