Open Captions and import

[James Brooks]

Hi JR

It might be easier to use https://www.convertcc.com/ to convert the SRT to either SCC or MCC and import that. The service is currently free 😉

Cheers, James

https://www.drastic.tv

[John Riker]

Thanks for the reply. Those are more closed caption files than subtitles correct? So would come in as closed caption and be in the black box with the white text with the limited font capabilities?

Thanks.

JR

[James Brooks]

Hi JR

This would me more for getting them into Premiere to edit them and output them as captions in the output file. You can select ‘Burn in captions’ in the output dialog, but I don’t think it will put the black box around them, but I am not sure

Cheers, James

https://www.drastic.tv

[Peter Garaway]

Hi John,

You can import Open Captions in XML and SRT files or as you mentioned, create new Open Captions manually.

Let me know if you have any issues.

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Matthew Ross]

Is there any way to change the resolution an SRT on import into Premiere? Every SRT I import comes in as 720×480, which doesn’t fit my 1080p project. And so far I can find no way to specify 1920×1080, either upon import or once it’s already imported (like right-clicking and choosing Modify…).

With the release of CC 2017 I was excited that we now seem to have all the tools we need to get subtitles looking exactly as we want them, but since we receive our translations from a service that supplies us with SRTs, so far even with the release of CC 2017, we still don’t seem to be quite there since they all come in at the wrong resolution.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

This is still the case it seems (i.e. SRT file has no resolution or frame rate indication, yet PPro always imports as 720×480 D1 pixel 1000fps). The 1000 fps may make sense as the accuracy of the timing is given in milliseconds, but the frame size and pixel ratio seem stuck in DVD land.

[Bouke Vahl]

well, my trick is to use Subbits, and import SRT.
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/subbits-subtitler/

Then, export to (editable) PNG file for Premiere (and back if needed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKOZAkhRRM

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

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[Matthew Ross]

With the last few versions (can’t remember exactly which version received the fix), once you have the SRT imported, you can right-click on it in your Project Window, choose Modify… then Captions, and there you can change frame size, frame rate, and pixel aspect.

The issue I’m still seeing with the Open Captions module is that with some fonts, as soon as I change the Edge feature to anything other than zero, the subtitles disappear completely. Change the edge back to zero and they come back. It’s only with some fonts, but unfortunately for me, they’re the fonts the clients are asking for.

[Andreas Kiel]

Another option would be to use my premiereTitles.
It allows to convert SRT to Premiere Essential Graphic Titles and vice versa.
You can pre-define size, color, outline and shadow settings.

Download the beta here:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/PTI/pti.dmg

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Andreas Kiel] “Another option would be to use my premiereTitles.
It allows to convert SRT to Premiere Essential Graphic Titles and vice versa.”

I just wanted to add that I have been using premiereTitles for some time now with great success.

Like everything Andreas creates it’s very well-thought and very flexible. To my mind it’s the best way (that I know of) for working with subtitles in Premiere.

I can’t recommend it enough.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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