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  Open Captions – .SRT export file completely OFF on many levels … suggestions?

  Posted by Karen Yarosky on August 6, 2020 at 12:33 am

  Hello! I just completed subtitling the rough cut of my feature doc (open captions).
  I just tried to create an .srt file and it is ALL OFF. Will try and explain this as well as I can and will include a link of some screen grabs – for those of you who might be so kind as to help …
  As I am still in a rough cut stage so I cut the caption track at some points during the edit and am aware that the captions are timed to the caption track and not the timeline – so although the in and out points did not match the timeline in the caption window after I cut the caption track (off by a few frames …) they still appeared to play correctly with the timing of the film / re where they are placed in the timeline / track … BUT … when I created an .srt file (exported the caption file …) – the captions were completely off in the following ways:

  1. When I bring the .srt file into the timeline – it seems to start at the FIRST CAPTION, (even though the original caption track started at the first frame of the doc – is that normal?)
  2. The timing is completely OFF for all captions AFTER the first spot where (in my original timeline ) I had cut the caption track
  3. The font / size / placement of the caption is completely wrong and it seems like all the “metadata” has not transferred over at all (have exported many times .. always the same).

  This is my first time using captions / .srt files – and it seems to me that the file would be critical for my online edit to be the correct timing, font, size and placement when dragged into a timeline – all of which this is not (perhaps it is not dragged into the timeline which is what I am doing – and has some other metadata somewhere that makes it all right ? But I have my doubts). FYI I needed to caption at a rough cut stage so that people can watch my work in another language (which is why it got cut ….). I have attached a link to some screen grabs to make this more understandable – and would love some input as to how to make sure that these subtitles will all work out once I get to an online (hopefully without having to redo all 500 of them …). p.s. when I export media and burn in subtitles it is 100% OK.
  Many Thanks for any help with this ….
  Link to screen grabs w/ comments:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GWc5akPQuHYoYBJH1I6XHXl9W6MR6Z7t/view?usp=sharing

  Karen Yarosky replied 5 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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