[Bouke Vahl]

Short answer:
You can’t.
Longer answer:
Avid only supports subtitles trough the SubCap plugin.
For that you need a Subcap .txt file in UTF-16 (To support Chinese)
But then, if your subs have position / color / font information, that will be lost.

Since I’m a sub freak, mail me your .ass file and I’ll see what I can do.
bouke (at) videotoolshed (dot) com

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

Eeh Job,
Not quite. there is a 0.1% difference in calculating BWF SAM to 23.976 or 24.
Now, there is also a flag in BWF files (that can be on or off) that forces Avid to interpret speed at a given framerate.
And my (highly educated) guess is that is exactly where things go wrong.

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

So, what codecs do you have then?
I don’t see it like you do. The only drama I see is that quicktime reference is no longer supported.
But the codecs that are now ‘missing’ are so obsolete that it’s not an issue.
You could always transcode to a more modern codec if needed.

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

Are you saying that the sound is drifting as ‘getting out of sync’ on long takes, or that the syncing itself gets worse during the later hours? (The latter is to be expected, the first would be a serious problem of not having genlock and really bad equipment, or someone is working @24 fps on 23.976 material, thus speeding it up.)
For correcting the timestamp, WaveAgent can do the trick. (Although you need to do it by hand for each clip)
Set the fps to 23.976, UNcheck ‘keep existing timecode’.

But, sometimes Avid will ask you how to interpret the timestamp. If that happens, it’s very easy, just select the right one and you’re golden.

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

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[Bouke Vahl]

You can also ask the sound guy to record mono instead of Poly.
this gives you a working day of recording time without file splitting.

Not sure if Michaels trick works. Direct out on Avid gives you a Poly wav, in RF64 (Defeating the 4 gig limit.)
I can imagine that Wave Agent does not like that .
But who cares, Avid itself will read it just fine.
But, if WA does eat it, you can add track names if you want.

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

Well, i have had plenty of troube with (EBU) STL files.
It has become a bastard format. Basic stuff works, but sometimes characters with accents are wrongly encoded.

For the OP, any trouble is due to overlapping timecodes, negative durations, or timecodes outside the source SubCap effect clip.
An easy way would be to use my Subbits. Import the file, go to the first title and select ” Find potential trouble” from the menu.
The free demo is good enough. You can’t export more than 8 titles, but it will tell you where the trouble is.
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/subbits-subtitler/

hth,

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

Not sure if I understand you correctly.
Do you mean the clips are always two seconds early?
In that case, QTchange can shift the TC (in batch)

Another option, if the clips are all 00:00:02:00, you might get lucky by stripping the TC track altogether.
(I know for sure FCP relinks based on relative frame count IF TC is not available. You might try that with Premiere as well.
(Do test though!)

https://www.videotoolshed.com/handcrafted-timecode-tools/qtchange/

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

Make a copy to a new wav with a simple sound editor, that will strip off the TC
or
Use WaveAgent to reset the TC
or
tell the transcript house to work zero based

hth

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

[Bob Cole] “software which enabled you to use a laptop as a field monitor and maybe even grab a still frame.”

Scopebox can do this, and display vectorscope / waveform, and record video as well.
Isn’t that what you want? (Oh, it’s cheap too, and it takes a bit of fiddling around to find where everything is hidden, but you’ll get there.)

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Bouke Vahl]

I don’t know if it’s possible with Premiere, but it is definitly possible.
If you think you have found a way, just see how fast it is. If it’s lightning fast, the video is copied instead of transcoded.

hth

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com