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easy subtitles…anyone???
Hey Premiere Gurus,
I’m getting ready to do a subtitling job and wanted to know if any of you could provide me some tips/tricks that’ll improve my work flow.
Also, I heard that I could just import or copy and paste a word document of the text into the Premiere Pro Text Editor, is that true?
…and is it as simple as a copy and paste?
Thanks again!
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6 Replies
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Do you mean real subtitles that the user can turn on or turn off? If so, it can not be done at all in Premiere Pro. It is done with the DVD authoring program. Adobe Encore works fine. And you can import files into Encore that were created with Excel so you have the exact timecode in the file.
Or, do you mean you want to create a title in the Adobe Title Designer and then make a new title based on the original, change the text by selecting it and pasting in text from the clipboard?
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The question of what your end-format is important… but irregardless, you can really speed up the subtitle spotting process by using software especially designed for this, like BELLE NUIT or LEMONY… the popular freeware SUBTITLE WORKSHOP is ok, but only for dvd-authoring: it cannot export text as image-files nor as a EDL-list that you would need to import into PremPro. The other two tools can do this.
If dvd/encore is your goal, SUBTITLE WORKSHOP is fine, although at last look you did have to tweak the Encore script file it exports. Newer versions of Encore require the UTF-8 coding, but you can convert/edit the script in any word processor.
regards,
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Hey guys, you’ve really enlightened me but you’ve also peaked my curiosity…
Just to clarify, I was actually thinking of doing things the second way you described Steven. That is by creating a title in Premiere’s title tool and then copying and pasting from the clipboard, etc. As the end product is not for commercial release, but for footage I simply wish to add subtitles to -we’re talkin’ a 5 min. clip here. So I was wondering if there were any tips or more efficient ways of going about it this way.
But now you boys have intrigued me with Encore. Are you saying that I could do titles more efficiently in Encore than with Premiere’s title tool? Can I only import excel files or are word documents also accepted? If I were to do it this way, are there any trips/tricks you guys can help me out with?
As always, many thanks!
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If I recall correctly, the way to create the subtitles for Encore is just easier in Excel because you have to export it to a certain type of file. It may be CSV, I don’t remember and I am away from my editing PC all week.
If you just want to create a bunch of titles using a text file as the basis for the title creation, there is a free utility for that function. If you are using CS3, you will have to export the file and then do the work. Then import them.
https://www.2writers.com/Eddie/PpTitleCreator.htm
Steven
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As always, I recommemd the easy way for 50 bucks:
I personnally would not do ANY subtitling work without this, or a hardware subtitler.
Cheers,
Vince
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I haven’t used it yet. but im going to try this free software called:
JUBLER
i found it here:
https://www.jubler.org/download/index.php
ciao
gianca
https://cargocollective.com/giancarlomorieri
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