Extract subtitles

[Oliver Jones]

There are far too many subtitles, the film is 70 minutes. So I don’t want to spend hours copying and pasting.

Isn’t it possible to extract all text files on the timeline in one go?

[Oliver Jones]

That’s really funny! Well done. I’ll avoid saying anymore.

[Steven Gonzales]

There’s a tool called XMLtoText from http://www.spherico.de/filmtools.

Here’s a description which might do what you want:

Also text string information of standard FCP text generators is extracted into an extra text data source…

So you could export an XML and then use this tool to pull the FCP text generators subtitles (free 30 day trial). If this doesn’t work, some other XML parser could help.

[Boyd Mccollum]

If you created the subtitles with Apple’s texts generators, you can use an application called TitleExchange. You export an XML of your sequence and import the XML into TE, then select the track your titles are on (the version I have only does one track at a time). It then creates a text file for you along with the TC for in and out points. It’s good practice to be consistent with which tracks you put your titles on, and to have dedicated tracks only for them.

[Erin Casper]

Steven,

Thank you for the concise and helpful answer! I had the same question and TitleExchange Pro is exactly what I was looking for in a program.