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Exporting open captions as .srt file (Premiere Pro 14.9 or earlier)

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December 20, 2016
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Hi,

The Adobe help page on working with captions (Learn to work with captions in Premiere Pro ) states that:

'You can export Open Captions as Open Caption formatted SRT and XML files and also convert single stream sidecar and embedded single stream files to Open Caption in Premiere Pro.'

I'm working with Open Captions (in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.0.1) and whilst I can burn them into the finished film no problem, I can't seen any way to export the open captions as a separate .srt file.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Correct answer Richard van den Boogaard

HI, I'm getting close by following your method, but I'm not getting the sidecar file when I finish exporting. Plus, I have to export the whole video just to see if there's a sidecar at the end, and there isn't.

What kind of format do you choose in your export settings? I understand your instructions about the Captions settings, but I mean the format options at the top. I've tried mp4 and png sequence. I've also tried deactivating the video tracks except the open caption track but still to no avail.

Would it have been easier if I hadn't started with Open Captions? If so, any way to convert?

Thanks!

Hi,

To export the captions as a separate SRT file (or various other formats) do this:

Select the file that says Captions in the Project Panel.

Go to the menu File > Export > Captions and select the SubRip file format from the top Dropdown box.

This will not render out the video, but ONLY save the captions file as an SRT.

(It took me a while to figure this out as well)

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Colin5CC2

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I have a similar question. I have a timeline (on track V1) with only SRT files, four of them, spaced apart to my liking. I would like to export this as one SRT file but I don't know how. The export > captions button is greyed out when you select more than one SRT file.

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lorenm84878416

Inspiring

I'm at wit's end here. After downloading from the transcription service, REV, in the right format and framerate, it comes in fine but needs work. I make changes to font size, character outline, and some duration tweaks, then I export my tweaked SRT file. The export dialog offers a "Include SRT styles" checkbox, which I always check.

And then round trip it back into the timeline to test it.

Every single time, the entire file of titles comes in start to finish-- but all styles stripped out. Mind you, I've specified Open Titles, and I've also added this to the Import and Export settings dialogs under the Captions list.

Nothing but the original download which looks like black-boxed closed captions, at a font way too small. I can't deliver this as a Spanish subtitle file! I couldn't even deliver Closed Captions when working with those .scc and .mcc tracks-- the files were composed in REV's text editor against a reference movie that was downcoded to 720 X 480-- because that''s all they can handle. The font size coming from them is 12 points. In an HD timeline it's ludicrous. When I import it, I apply "Set scale to frame size," but it does not work on these tracks. So I Select All in the Captions panel (thank you Adobe for this new right-click command in V 14.3) and raise the size by hand to 60 points, without the black box, giving the characters an edge thickness of 5 points in black to work against light backgrounds. Looks great. (Would like a drop shadow, eh?)

Doesn't matter- they don't come back in with any desired style change!

What am I doing wrong?

Best, as always,

Loren

-Lor -

Stan Jones

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This is an old, long thread. I suggest you start a new thread, paste your same info, but add a screenshot of the imported captions, in the Caption Panel.

The basic functionality works okay for me.

Stan

Stan Jones

Community Expert

There is generally some flaw in the caption stream just before, or after, the point where the export is truncated. What caption number is the last to export? Is that part of the file the same as what I saw? Or is there a change?

Stan

Stan Jones

Community Expert

brigit,

This may happen if you have more than one caption stream in the timeline or have otherwise manipulated the stream. Even if you don't think this is the case, test using the following export method. If it still does not work, you may have a character, extra space, etc, that is choking PR and disrupting the export. So look at the point the problem occurs to see.

PR 2020 added the option to export Open Captions as a sidecar file from the timeline. So if you have moved captions around or split the stream, those changes are incorporated into the srt file. When exporting fromthe Project Panel,and selecting the Caption stream, you get what is in the Caption panel - which is generally the original timecodes.

Even in PR 2019, you can get this same effect by selecting the SEQUENCE in the Project Panel, and then File -> Export -> Caption.

Stan

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briand1740798

Participating Frequently

Hey Stan,

I'm having a similar issue with mine - same thing, been editing for weeks now. Went to export my .SRT and only half of it comes out. Once or twice I accidentally hit he split tool, but I always undid it or corrected it. I just don't understand what it could be.

brigitted36241470

Participating Frequently

Dear everyone,

I'm trying to export Captions (selecting captions in the project > file > export > captions > srt ) from the project.

Only half of my captions (after the red arrow) are being exported and the first half - disappears!

This is so far the weirdest and most nerve wrecking bug I've had so far.

Any ideas what could this be?
thank you!

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ellaM

Participant

Happens also to me! I'm going crazy. Anyone?

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briand1740798

Participating Frequently

Hey There,

One lesson I learned through my experience has been don't trust Premiere
necessarily when it comes to QCing your file...

I thought mine was messed up because the first caption didn't pop on at the
start of timecode... One of the admins for this forum was able to check it
in a Subtitle Edit program and it was actually fine. You can also see the
timecode if you open it in a simple text edit and read the timecode...

Also specifically my issues were occurring in CC19... when I moved up to
CC20, it ended up exporting out okay.

DrTc

Inspiring

Is there a way to convert open captions to closed captions in Premiere?

Stan Jones

Community Expert

No. Anything to Open; Open to nothing.

liambartos

Participant

You must select your sequence and your captions project at the same time and then go to File/Export and Captions will NOT be greyed out!

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mathieupy

Participant

Thank you so much, you juste save me 🙂

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jacquesw84001398

Participating Frequently

Hi everyone,

I am having a similar issue: I have imported a srt file into premiere and have worked on it to make it perfect (timecodes and text), and I now need to export it as a new srt file.

If I follow the instruction given above (ie. select the caption in project panel, then export/caption) I just end up with a duplicate of my original .srt file, ie without all the changes I have made to it in Premiere.

If I export my entire project (export / media) , I only have the option to burn captions into video, since for some reason when I imported my srt file originally it treated it as open captions instead of closed captions (I did not pay attention to that since I wasn't aware of the issue with open captions.... !).

What can I do? (I am quite desperate since this is a 20 minutes documentary and it took me a long time to make those captions right....)

cheers,

Jacques