Im just using premiere pro cc 2018 and was about to add subtitles, however, after a certain number of words the subtitles are cut off. I attached a pictures so that you can see what I mean. Do you have any help how I can fix that since I didnt find any way to do it myself.
Ordinarily, adding open captions directly into PR results in the box fitting the text. And for a long caption, you must add hit the enter key for the new lines. When I did not use "enter," it added a box that ran off the screen, with no second line. But it did not cut off the caption block.
If like me, you are doing subs for a 1920 x 1080 video you need to adjust the width of caption import settings to the same, which I did and it fixed it really quickly. By default sometimes those import settings are smaller. I know this is two years old but still relevant if anyone is stuck.
I also had this issue of partial subtitles being cut off. I use a third party to create my .srt files and they seemed to work fine except for one. I clicked on the .srt file in my project < Modify < Captions - I noticed the video settings were set to 720x480 and just changed it to 1920x1080. Seemed to fix the problem! Not sure how or why, but a simple fix for me.
I have a problem with a txt file that I exported from Premiere 2022 and then I translated it. Premiere did the transcript from the video, then Premiere did the captions for me. I then exported it in txt to translate it, but I cannot import it back, and it cannot be recognized as captions. I've tried different online sites to convert it, but all of them give errors. I even tried Youtube.
After comparing the txt file with a good srt file, I see a lot of differences. The time is rendered different, the txt doesn't have numbers, and the txt has no arrows. Is there any way to fix this? or to make Premiere recognize this and convert it into captions?
I did test whether the "dash replaced by arrow" file could be imported to PR directly. A .txt file cannot be imported as captions. The "Import captions from file" dialogue says .txt files are allowed, but does not show them. And if you change the extension to .srt, PR says there's a header error.
Sometimes, I get send over a Word document with all the transcribed captions. Even if I strip out all the original language lines and just keep the destination subtitle lines (in my case Dutch > English), there is no easy way to import this into PPro. Very frustrating.
I don't think you can blame premiere... bwdik. caption/subtitle formats are complicated beasts. There are a few apps and websites that will convert from and to many formats and make this process much easier. The best I've found is SubtitleEdit which I think has a webbased version and a freestanding windows app which is what I've been using. Stan Jones is the expert on this board with all things caption/subtitle related. Hopefully he can put in his two cents. Post back with any further questions. Stan in particular was an enormous help to me while trying to figure out the workflow on a project that I hoped would be done about 6 months ago... no such luck.
Have you even tried importing a plain text file into PPro? It simply doesn't work! You get a generic importer error. What is the purpose of the "Import Captions from File" option if it only handles properly encoded SRT files? Shouldn't it be called "Import Captions from SRT"?
To support what you are saying, when I last tested, a .txt file could not be imported as captions. The "Import captions from file" dialogue says .txt files are allowed, but does not show them. And if you change the extension to .srt, PR says there's a header error. Hopefully, such a feature will be added.
Edit the text file so you have just the caption text. If the captions are already in the form you want (e.g. one line per caption), it will save you time later, but it is not important to the main method.
Open Subtitle Edit (other captioning programs may work), and Import -> Plain Text.... You get a dialog which allows setting many options. For example, you can make each line a caption, you can remove empty lines, etc. Set it to generate timcodes. You can set the duration or allow Subtitle Edit to set them automatically.
Thanks. But once you start advising using third party subtitling solutions as a way to import plain text as a starting point for doing captions inside PPro, it kind of reminds me of putting a horse behind the carriage.
From the point of view of someone who's been doing this a ridiculously long time, working in avid, fcp 1-7, and davinci resolve, this is the way it's always been. You've always needed 3rd party apps to wrangle this stuff. The caption/subtitling capabilities of Premiere have been substantially upgraded in the past year or 2... for which I'm thankful, but I still rely on subtitle edit to convert and check on things... I have been accused of being an adobe apologist here so take this fwiw...
If I understand your post, you are saying that it is possible to import a ".txt" file into Subtitle Edit (SE) (and I am assuming SE has the video for which the .txt is the "transcription") and THEN have SE generate the timecodes that match the .txt file to the dialog in the video. THEN, one would be able generate the .srt file that could be inported into Premiere Pro.
John, have you tried what you're asking for in subtitle edit?... Pretty sure it can work. The author of subtitleedit was very helpful when I had a complex issue, so you should reach out to him with any specific questions, but pretty sure you can load your video in and your txt file and then "spot" your subtitles to the correct timecode (spot was what they called it in the horrible old film days - trust me, it was a nightmare) and then output the appropriately formatted srt file...
sorry John, but I'm in way over my head authoring a dvd in Scenarist which makes Subtitle Edit look like a walk in the park. Try and figure it out... if you have problems, send the guy who wrote the program an email and see if he'll help or at least point you in the right direction. Post back in a few days if you get stuck and if I've made enough headway on the dvd project (not to mention the 2 other jobs I'm working on) I'll try and help...
I am talking about the File -> Import -> Plain Text ... function in Subtitle Edit. It does not look at a Video for that function. You can "Generate timecodes" and you can "Take time from current file." Or you can later Synchronization -> "Point sync via other subtitle..." and import srt to use for times.
I also had an issue when trying to export the captions to txt and then couldn't import them back in the same format because it only accepts srt. This Python script might help you.
-dm/premiere-captions-to-srt-converter
This short video tutorial from Justin Odisho will quickly take you through the basics of adding captions manually in Premiere Pro, which will help familiarise you with all the controls and parameters.
This guide from Rev.com also covers a handy workflow for managing multiple foreign language captions for the same video and their overview of working with Captions in Premiere, which is also worth a read.
After some searching online I discovered the not all fonts will play nicely with Captions in Premiere, but a font like Open Sans will. So I opted for that. There are probably other options that will work equally well.
When I was adjusting my captions from the usual HD 1920 x 1080 frame to a narrower vertical video 9:16 frame (1080 x 1920) I had to add a few line breaks to my captions so that they ran across two lines.
This is because each line in the per-caption text editing box can be aligned differently with depending on what is selected in the 9 point grid tool. The easiest solution is to simply select both lines in the text box before hitting the 9-point grid tool again to make sure everything lines up correctly, within the caption.
Hi there! I have a common issue where my desired 2 lines of captions populate as 3 lines. Are there settings and/or presets I can make that will ensure that captions will never exceed 2 lines? I select 2 lines in my settings and I almost always have instances where 3 lines of captions are populated. Thanks in advance if you have any advice on this topic.
Hi, im having a problem with captions.
I have a video file (4.54 m) wich i want to combine with a srt file.
When i watch it in vlc everything is fine but when i put the video file and the srt file in adobe premiere pro 2023 the srt file is only 43 seconds? Its like a big piece of the subtitles is gone? How can i fix this problem?
I open adobe premiere pro, make a new project. drag the video file (4:54 min) and the srt file (43 sec) in the media browser on the left. But when i open the video with vlc the subtitles are also 4.54 min.
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