[Ginger Gentile]

After a lot of internet seraching, I found a way to embed subtitles on in premiere pro using a .txt document that creates subtitles in encore. (Why adobe doesn´t include this, I don´t know)
https://aescripts.com/pt_importsubtitles/#
download the script. It costs about $25, but it is worth saving the time to redo the subs manually if you have a long movie.
Basically, this is an After Effects script. It allows you to import a .txt subtitle list with timecodes into AE and it generates automatically (in about 20 seconds) one long video in alpha with your subs, where they should be. you can use key frames to make changes in AE(a bit time consuming) or you can export with alpha channel into premiere OR use dynamic link. If you don´t need to make any sincro changes you can also import a video and export from AE.
If anyone from Adobe reads this, please include this script in future updates. It is not a crazy idea to want to burn subtitles into a movie: many festivals want to receive movies this way.

[Ginger Gentile]

Hi Matt,
This is my first time finishing up a film–I will burn a dvd where the subtitles are optional in Encore but some festivals ask that the subtitles be burned into the actual film (especially because the spoken language is Spanish) and then presented on DVD, or more likely, digi beta, HD or other support, including a hard drive. So I will be rendering the film on Premier to send then to make the digibeta, HD tapes, etc
In the past I have only made digibeta tapes of my shorts, and the formats are changing all the time. I know that for cinema releases in Argentina (where the film was made)it has to be presented in 2K.

[Ginger Gentile]

Great, I will ask for an SRT file and then I can use it for encore and premier, as long as I change it for each program (as I understand, encore needs a heading with information as showed above, while premier doesn´t, it also doenst need line breaks, correct?)

The only languages I will subtitle for are Spanish and English, so I don´t think I need to worry about asian characters for now.

[Ginger Gentile]

Hi Danny,
I myself will not be doing the subtitles–I will receive them from the subtitling company, “ready to put in the movie” with the timecodes. They asked me what format I want them, as they can do them in any format–what format should I ask them in?

Thanks for letting me know that I won´t be able to do subtitles in Premiere, I guess I will need to put them in manually from a text file if I need to burn them into the movie, correct?

[Ginger Gentile]

I work on PC, some of the other people working on this work on MAC–if there is a format that works on both, the best.
The idea is that I will get the subtitles in a format that will then be places in the sequence and automatically go to where they need to go–this exists?

[Ginger Gentile]

Yes, now they are working fine. Deleting manually did the trick when Premier got stuck on consolidating the media.
This is a solution that I can recommend.

[Ginger Gentile]

Hi Tom,
Did as you said, manually deleted the files and project opened with no problems, only asked me where the render files where and I clicked offline.
Each time I tried to open it got stuck on another file, usually around 618-630 (and they were not rendered files).

[Ginger Gentile]

Thanks, he suggested TIFF–any ideas on this?

[Ginger Gentile]

UPDATE:
I deleted render files from the sequence menu.
It seems to be working fine now. I will keep you updated if problem returns, knock on wood!
BTW, I am noticing that there are two files on my Hard Drive, one called
“media cache” with about 600kb
and another called
“media cache files” with about 34GB of files.
I have cleaned the media cache from within the project and then, at the advice of another editor, deleted files manually.
Any idea why there are two files?
Would also appreciate any advice on how often to clean media cache and render files, considering that this is a very large project.
Thanks!

[Ginger Gentile]

No, I haven´t made any changes to my system when this happened, nor have I changed the system since I stated using it.
The only thing I can think of is that I captured about 5 hours of HDV tape to use in the project (the project is set on HD), but I had about an hour of captured tape from the beginning and this did not cause any problems.