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Saving / Copying all captions into word document?

  • July 13, 2018
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Hey guys!

I am hoping that there is a way for me to get Premiere to copy all the different captions from my timeline so

I can copy and paste it into a word document and go through it all.

I've tried google and the forums;

Anyone know of a way to do this? We're talking 50mins of different subtitles which I need to edit (paraphrase, spell check etc.)

Thanks a bunch!

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    Correct answer Stan Jones

    Are you wanting to get them back into PR after they are edited?

    You can export .srt from PR (select the caption stream/.srt in the project panel, then File -> Export -> Captions). Do not use Word; it adds special characters. Use notepad (I use Notepad++); it saves a clean version. You must be very careful not to change anything other then text, and even that can be a challenge.

    But I would use Subtitle Edit. If you already had a .srt that you imported to PR, I would use that, unless you already made a lot of changes in PR. Keep a backup of the .srt. Open the .srt in Subtitle Edit. Pick the "fix" option (which includes spell check etc,) and see  how that works.

    You can edit individual items.

    You can bring in the video and do timing there also.

    Then save the .srt and import to PR.

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    Stan Jones
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    Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    July 13, 2018

    Are you wanting to get them back into PR after they are edited?

    You can export .srt from PR (select the caption stream/.srt in the project panel, then File -> Export -> Captions). Do not use Word; it adds special characters. Use notepad (I use Notepad++); it saves a clean version. You must be very careful not to change anything other then text, and even that can be a challenge.

    But I would use Subtitle Edit. If you already had a .srt that you imported to PR, I would use that, unless you already made a lot of changes in PR. Keep a backup of the .srt. Open the .srt in Subtitle Edit. Pick the "fix" option (which includes spell check etc,) and see  how that works.

    You can edit individual items.

    You can bring in the video and do timing there also.

    Then save the .srt and import to PR.

    K
    kluulzAuthor
    Participant
    July 13, 2018

    Thank you so much Stan.

    Opening the exported .srt with Notepad and it even shows the timecodes.

    Once I have edited them, how do I overwrite the old captions in the project?

    cheers,

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 13, 2018

    Just rename the file you are importing, import to PR, replace on timeline.

    Lots of gotchas here, so be sure you are backing everything up. (Save as copy as or whatever; autosaves; manual copies of srt files, etc.) The Open Captions edited caption stream is in the PR project file.

    For example, I am assuming you are using Open Captions.

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