How can I fix that .srt file doesn't match my video in Premiere pro?

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Help! In adobe premier pro: My whole timeline starts at 00:00:00:00 including my open captions file, but in order to have not too much black before my movie, I started my work area at 00:00:08:00 to export the movie with just 2 second black before. So when I export the video with the subtitles embedded, everything works fine, but when I want to create a .srt file, and I check my movie afterwards, it seems that I have a difference between the video and the subtitles because the .srt file starts at 00:00:00:00. So pratically the subtitles seem to be 8 seconds late in comparison with my video. Can you help me please : (

Stan Jones · Answer

I don't use this much, so really not sure. I got the same results that you did. Burned in works fine. .srt is not modified.

But when you export as .srt, you are exporting the caption file itself, unrelated to the timeline, and there are no adjustments that I can see in the caption panel or the export for modifying all the timecodes.

I would use Subtitle Edit which has an adjustment option for "set start and offset the rest." I did not figure it out, and do not know how it works.

Subtitle Edit

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