How do I add Subtitles

[Ann Bens]

You can use the Closed Caption feature within Premiere.
Burned in subtitling can be done with the Titler.
Or with Encore if the end product is a DVD or BD.

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[Paddy Uglow]

If you’re doing burned-in subtitling, I’ve found it really handy to set up a subtitling template and a shortcut for New Title Based On Template. I may even add another shortcut for Overwrite so I can avoid dragging titles around.

– Paddy

[Gavin Williams]

Thanks for this

Could you briefly take me through the process Paddy – am a little lost?

Thanks

Gavin

[Paddy Uglow]

Urkh! This took me a while to work out, so I’ll see if I can remember (bear in mind I’m using CS6, not cc)

I wanted consistent burned-in (ie actually on the video) subtitles in a particular font and size, with a black translucent box so,

1. I set up a new title the way I wanted it.
2. I clicked the little Templates button with the Ts on it at the top of the main Titler design window
3. I clicked the triangle button in the resulting dialogue box and chose “import current title as template”

I then set up a new keyboard shortcut to do New Title, based on template. I’ve only got one template, so whenever I press apple-shift-T, I get a new title based on that template.

If I position the playhead where I want to put the title, it’s easy to put it in the right place.

If anyone knows an even easier way of doing this, let me know! 🙂 I put subtitles on the talks that I edit when the audience shout out nearly unintelligible questions without using the roving mic 🙁

I hope that’s what you needed.
– Paddy

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Steven L. gotz]

You can do it through the Premiere Pro Title Designer, or if you have lots and lots of subtitles to do and you already have the text typed out, take a look at this tutorial on how to use Adobe InDesign to help you:

https://vimeo.com/80445034

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com

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[Paddy Uglow]

Nice tip (re using InDesign + stylesheets and exporting PNGs) ! I hope I get a chance to use that one sometime.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

For any retronauts out there using an older version of InDesign which doesn’t have HD page templates, here are some helpful tips:
CS3 will only export to JPG (so no transparency). Premiere CS3 won’t take SVGs (neither will Photoshop) or PDFs.
For 720, make your page 17.7778″ by 10″ and export at 72ppi. For 1080 make it 26.66667″ x 15″

To hide the background on the JPG, the color key effect works quite nicely, because you can feather the edges too (can give you a nice border effect). And you can make a single lower-thirds box in Premiere’s Text Editor which you can update in one place.

Not quite as easy as with CS6 and later, but still worthwhile if you’ve got a collection of titles that you want to be sure are all laid out the same, and an easier editor than Premiere’s.

[Ruka Derbake]

Thank´s very much for share.

[Josh Skehan]

Thanks, Steve!

Josh Skehan
http://www.azvideopro.com

[Matt Davis]

Maybe a bit late to the party here…

As an alternative to InDesign, people could also use After Effects. It shares some of the clunkiness of doing it in Premiere but with some very important differences.

Here’s what I’ve done in the past, especially when I don’t have a set of Ins and Outs for the subtitles, like if I’m laying those down myself from a translated transcript or something.

Bring your final video into After Effects, either from Premiere or as a video file. Add a text layer and extend it the full length of the area needing subtitles. Copy and paste all of the text for the sub-titles into the text layer.

Depending on what you decide for the layout and spacing of the subtitles, cut (Command+X or control+X) all of the remaining text that won’t be on screen for the first subtitle. Find the point where the next line of subtitles should happen in the video, place the playhead there and then Split the text layer (Command+Shift+D) Select the text in the new text layer (after the split) and paste the rest of the text you’d cut.

Rinse and repeat. Tedious, but better than Premiere on it’s own.

There are lots of 3rd party plugins, but many of them need the subtitle file to be formatted. Which doesn’t work well with my workflow, because I receive text files from the client usually.