SRT Captions from Premier to Vimeo

[Jim Fink]

Greetings fellow ancient DS'rs....

I have a caption file from a commercial caption producer that I have
imported to and edited in Premier.

The text changes and timing changes get to Vimeo as a SideCar SRT file
just fine.
However, the repositions I make in Premiere are not coming through and
all captions are now bottom centered.

I tried making the captions that occur over a lower third to the top of
the screen with the little 9 box positioner in Premiere's Caption tool.
Any idea what I am missing to get Vimeo to properly display the caption
position. I am exporting as SRT file and the file is showing in Vimeo
under My Uploads.

Thanks all, and do we have a Lost Waiges contingency going to NAB..?

Jim

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[Bob Maple]

On 3/21/2024 3:43 PM, Jim Fink wrote:

> However, the repositions I make in Premiere are not coming through and
> all captions are now bottom centered.

SRT technically doesn't really support positioning*; they are very basic
text files that have the start/stop time, the text, and support a couple
of html-like styling tags like <b> and <i> for bold and italics (though
I've never seen bold used in the wild) and <br /> for linebreaks.

You can sometimes use <font> tags to do things like change color, but
whether or not the player will grok them, ignore them, or actually just
show the raw text is a surprise. I know Vimeo's player doesn't support
<font> and will just show the code as part of the text.

* There are a couple of special positioning codes like {\an8} to put the
entire subtitle at the top of the screen, but again, your mileage may
vary -- ultimately with SRT the text rendering as a whole is completely
up to the player. I'm not sure if Vimeo supports it, or strips/ignores
them, or if Premiere is even writing those in an SRT (which I'm guessing
it's not. Open the SRT in a text editor and look.)


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