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How to create .SRT file?
Hi, I just completed a video in FCP X for someone and I am being asked to also provide the SRT file. Can someone tell me – in layman’s terms – how to create that file? Is there an app I need to do that? Is the .srt file a text file that captures the dialog/audio from the video? I have been researching this and apparently not researching correctly. Thanks in advance for help.
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MacCaption (now a part of Telestream) can export an SRT files from the Closed Captioning.
https://www.telestream.net/captioning/overview.htm
It might be best to get your program sent out if you are unfamiliar with the process or don’t need captioning all the time. MacCaption is awesome, but it’s purpose built, relatively expensive software.
Jeremy
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scribie.com (freakin’ awesome)f charges 1.50/recorded min for transcription services, and for an extra $1 / min they’ll create .sbv caption files (youtube format). There are numerous free translation sites that will let you dump in sbv and spit out srt. So if you had a 20min video, the srt file would cost you $50. Plus you have a transcript and someone else did all the typing! I honestly don’t know how they stay in business.
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I think I used this converter – https://www.3playmedia.com/services-features/tools/captions-format-converter/
It looks like the above company does the same stuff as scribe.com but I don’t know anything about their pricing.
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Great tip, Bret!
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Try SRT Edit Pro on Mac App Store. It’s a good tool to create or edit SRT files with audio wavefrom enabling accurate timecode adjustment.
Work on iMac
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