The ability to do this natively would be incredibly useful. I'm making a lyric video. The process of creating a new text layer, typing it and sorting out the timings for every layer is laborious. I had assumed that I could autio transcribe some captions in Premiere and bring these into After Effects saving me hours. There seems to be a bunch of paid plug ins that do more or less this but it feels like it should be built in. Surely there are may use cases for creating a caption sequence quickly in Premiere then bringing it into After Effects to apply motin graphics to your text?

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Rick Gerard

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I'll bet I have created more than a thousand lyric videos. Not one of them was edited in After Effects because clients change their minds. If 20 frames of one graphic need to be updated, it's easy to do that with a shot in a comp that is only as long as one sentence. It's nearly impossible to do in a comp with 900 layers that's 15 minutes long.

I created a 15-minute Lyric video (Dynamic Text and Graphics Animation) a few months ago. There were about 200 comps averaging about 5 seconds. The longest comps were two or three shots with fancy transitions. Each comp had handles (a few extra frames) so that I could do transitions or overlap them in Premiere Pro. The project took about three and a half weeks. The first two were writing, creating graphics, and editing a quick storyboard and scratch audio track. The next four days were spent recording the final narration, creating the comps in After Effects, rendering comps, and then assembling the first rough cut in Premiere Pro. Music and sound effects were added, and the edit was polished. The proof was sent to the client, about a dozen changes were requested in the animations, and about twelve comps were edited and rendered again in a little more than a day. The total render time for the fixes was about 10 minutes. The fixed shots were replaced in Premiere Pro, and a few sound effects, music, and narration edits were completed. The final edit in Premiere Pro took about 20 minutes to render. If I had made all of the changes and edits in After Effects and tried to render the whole thing there, the render time, based on the average render time for each shot, would have been about 10 hours.

Not only is working on individual shots in an animation program like After Effects, C4D, Blender, or anything that Disney or Pixar uses and then editing the final movie in an NLE like Premiere Pro more efficient, it allows you to do a lot better job because you are using the tools the way they were designed to work. Give it a try. As long as you stay organized, you'll save a lot of time and have a lot fewer broken renders.

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Rick Gerard

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If you need to create subtitles for a video longer than a few seconds, I suggest you look at Premiere Pro. The Transcribe/Create Subtitles feature is amazingly powerful and very quick to use. I'm currently adding subtitles to a bunch of interviews and podcasts. It takes me about 15 to 20 minutes to transcribe, spell check, edit, and then create subtitles for a five-minute podcast. I can't imagine finishing it in AE in less than an hour. The final video also renders in about 1/4 the time a video in AE will render.

Liran Tabib

Inspiring

There are a few mentioned script that can do that. If this is something you do regularly I highly recommend AnySubs the can deal with multiple subtitle files (SRT, XML, TXT) and uses the selected text layer design:

https://www.vdodna.com/products/anysubs/

Soothing_fan5C3C

Participating Frequently

https://aturtur.com/messing-with-after-effects-and-subtitles/

https://videohive.net/item/srt-subtitle-importer/35266176

hope you find them useful!

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Raemon28285778yn33

Participating Frequently

Thank you for this man, this is what I've been looking for

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

Community Expert

Check out this script: https://aescripts.com/pt_importsubtitles/

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Rahman5FC1Author

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Thank you so much for replying 🙂

I did get it... But this is not what I am looking for.

I want subtitles lines to be on after effects as SEPARATED EDITABLE textlayers.

Isn't that possible?

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

Community Expert

Most of the tools out there like this one by Digital Anarchy create a single text layer with keyframes, not multiple from what I can tell. Looks like you'd need to write your own script or hire someone to make a custom tool for that, or just manually go through and split the layer on each keyframe so each section is separate.

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