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Exporting Closed Captions
I’ve created a video that has been captioned using Premiere Pro CC.
The video needs to be posted onto Vimeo for final viewingwith the captions. I exported my sequence as a QT file and embeded the captions there, but when I post to Vimeo, they don’t show up. Any thoughts?Alan Balch
Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
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Vimeo doesn’t offer captioning but they are “working on it”.
For youtube, you would export
the caption file as a side car (external) file.When uploaded, you also upload the caption file.
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Thanks, Chris!
I read that on their website as well. I was wondering what “working on it” meant. 😉I have seen other videos that are closed captioned so I know it can be done, I was thinking about trying to use After Effects to do it.
Alan Balch
Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
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really? are you sure they are not just burned in?
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Correct. Sorry for the confusion, they are burned in.
Is there a way to do in Premiere, or would I have to use a third party app?Alan Balch
Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
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I don’t think there is, I wish there were.
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So you want to burn the closed captions in?
For PC, There’s a commercial plugin called EZTitles, maybe that will help — I haven’t used it. Otherwise, you can burn in subtitles with VirtualDub and TextSub (part of VobSub). You may need Subtitle Edit to convert the sidecar files to a subtitle format that VirtualDub/TextSub can read, but all of these tools are free.
On the Mac, there’s an FxFactory plugin by SUGARfx called SubTitles that should do what you want.
Please post back if you try these — I haven’t had to do this yet and I’d be curious to hear what works best.
Also, I’d suggest you file a feature request with Adobe [link] to have this natively.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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I saw a post on the Adobe forums where the user used SUGARfx (Walter mentioned above) and was happy with the results. Here’s what he said:
“I had the captioning company send .srt files, converted them to .txt, then used the “Subtitles” plug-in by SUGARfx. It turned the closed caption files into open captioned subtitles with such ease I forked over the $49 it cost as quickly as I could. Much time saved.”
Hope that is helpful!
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
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