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Closed Captions is there a way to take the information of time and content direct.

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July 29, 2019
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I have a video I posted on Youtube. I used their automatic feature to make a transcript. It has the time and text. Is there an easier way of putting that into Premiere Pro CC 2018 to make closed captions. I need to generate a sidecar file. I am trying to avoid copying and pasting each line into the Captions generator.

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Correct answer Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

If you can download an SRT file from your YouTube video in settings, then you can import that into Premiere.

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To clarify, I have a file that has information with the time and the caption. ie:

00:00

[Music]

00:18

this is my first line I would like to have captioned.

00:21

This is my second.

00:24

The third goes here.

00:27

and on and on.

I would like to take this information and have it closed captioned with the video. The only way I have been able to do this is open the captions creator and cut and past it into each segment. Is there a way to incorporate this information without breaking it down line by line?

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MARKARKARK wrote
To clarify, I have a file that has information with the time and the caption.

What file extension does it have? Where did you get it?

Are you sure that you have "published" automatic captions in YouTube?

If you have published captions for your video on Youtube and have not downloaded them, do this:

On YouTube, go to the Creator Studio Classic (the Beta does not have captioning yet). In the Video Manager, find the video, and click the triangle with "Edit." Select captions. On the right side, you should see "Published" and any caption streams that you have published with the video. Click on the stream you want. In the "Actions" button, click and select the type of download file you want. Start with .srt.

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I was able to download the SRT file. Thank you so much for your help. Now I have a second issue with it. When I put it in the timeline it puts the first caption in, then the second, then the third, on top of each other. I can see the first caption under the second. It is showing as an open caption rather than a closed caption.

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

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If you can download an SRT file from your YouTube video in settings, then you can import that into Premiere.

MARKARKARKAuthor

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How do I do that?

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

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That doesn't look like SRT format or any CC format I'm aware of (however I don't deal with this too often, so it may be a format I'm not aware of). If you transcribed it with YouTube, they should have an SRT download option that formats your CC like this:

35

00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,940

So about a year and a half ago

36

00:01:05,940 --> 00:01:07,470

we started getting some e-mails

Otherwise, you'll need to reformat by hand and save as an SRT file before importing, however, this can be tedious and you might want to just re-create by hand if the video isn't too long. Definitely check if you can download an SRT file first.