Thanks. That’s very helpful. Obviously I’m using a self-taught method that isn’t great for FCPX. Will also see why making keyword collections through ranges isn’t working for me. Might be doing something wrong. Because I see your point – I’m adding a whole step. And thanks for Alt-X – I had forgotten about that shortcut.

I really thought I would find others with this issue, so I may be using the wrong words in my search. My method of organising on FCP X (currently on 10.6.5) is to favorite sections of one clip (if for instance I do multiple pans in one clip, or like sections of an interview). I then move the clips into keyword collections. When I do that it only…

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Thanks, Greg! Will check it out now

Keith, have just been playing around with Jubler and I’m going to see if any of the translators are willing to give it a go, otherwise I’ll do Andreas’s method. If they are willing, it makes so much sense. It’s the kind of thing I was looking for but I know not everyone will be as excited as me.

Sounds like the way to go. I think these translators will want a super simple option. I just need to get the formatting right from the start. So they provide timecode in to out: “00:00:00:00-00:03:05:22 tab description” and your software will interpret this correctly and export out an srt that will be accurate on import?

Thanks so much Keith. I’ll have a look. As I said to Andreas, Jubler just didn’t come up in my searches and I am keen to see what can work – even if it’s for future projects as this comes up a lot in my world.

Yes, exactly, I am thinking that they aren’t going to want to mess around, but will check out Jubler. I have been googling this for days and didn’t see it!

I was almost convinced that voicing over the African language was the way to go, but you’ve convinced me that it’s harder than it sounds. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

Thanks so much! I obviously knew of #1 but not the others. Very interesting ideas. Just would love a converter from the time stamped doc to srt. They seem to exist but I may need to play around.

Unfortunately, I can’t do that as the video won’t be in a language they can translate.

I am looking at ways to get translations into an srt file or similar in the most seamless, efficient manner, for import into FCP X. I see there is an FCPX SRT converter that will allow me to create titles as opposed to generic captions when I import, which is very helpful, but I would like some advice about how to get it into an SRT file. Can…

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