[Seth Freehling]

To be in compliance with The Office of Civil Rights, my last few weeks have been captioning our online videos. I tried one with Premiere and quickly learned that route was only good for people on hourly rates or indivuals who have very low blood pressure. (I haven’t upgraded yet, so maybe it’s better)

Here’s my workflow using the Subtitle Edit (PC) program:

-If possible, download the .srt file from YouTube (yes-it is painfully full of errors)
Or analyze it using an older version of PP (good option if you can combo this with a script)
-Open the .srt or .xml file in Subtitle Edit as well as the reference video file and create a waveform
-Edit away. Keyboard shortcuts are your friend
-Save .srt, upload, or import into PP for baking

If anyone else has a more efficient way, I would also love to hear it.