Do caption xml files from Premiere CC work in Flash

Report · Sep 19, 2013

I have flv and xml closed caption files exported from Premiere CC. I'm trying to create the swf file in Flash CS6, but I can't not get the captions to show. I've gone thru a multitude of tutorials and I can get very plain demo xml files to work as captions, but the xml file output from Premiere doesn't work. The Premiere xml has tons more coding parameters, which seems to be this issue?

Does an Adobe Premiere CC xml not work in Adobe Flash CC or CS6?

thanks for your help.

Report · Sep 19, 2013

i've never used premiere but flash used a standardized timed text xml file for captions. what does premiere produce?

Report · Sep 19, 2013

Thanks for your reply. here's a snippet on the timed text file xml generated by Premiere. I'm not real up on xml but I ran it thru an editor and it found no errors. When it runs in Flash it also doesn't generate any errors, but just doesn't show.

Since I have gotten it work in Flash with some more basic xml, I'm thinking there must be some additional stuff in there that Flash doesn't like.

(There's several minutes of captioning so I really don't want to manually go thru all the code and strip it down.)

Just a little confused that an Adobe generated xml doesn't work cross-app.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<tt xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml" xmlns:ttp="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml#parameter" ttp:dropMode="dropNTSC" ttp:frameRate="30" ttp:frameRateMultiplier="1000 1001" ttp:timeBase="media" xmlns:m608="http://www.smpte-ra.org/schemas/2052-1/2010/smpte-tt#cea608" xmlns:smpte="http://www.smpte-ra.org/schemas/2052-1/2010/smpte-tt" xmlns:ttm="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml#metadata" xmlns:tts="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml#styling">

<body>
<div>
<p begin="00:00:01.00" dur="00:00:01.00">It's possible</p>

      <p begin="00:00:00:00" end="00:00:13:25" region="pop1" style="basic" tts:origin="27.50% 84.66%">
        <style tts:textAlign="center"/>
        <span>♪ music playing ♪
          <style tts:backgroundColor="#000000FF" tts:fontSize="18.00px"/>
       </span>
      </p>
    </div>
</body>

</tt>

Report · Sep 19, 2013

are those "notes" in the span tags artifacts of this forum?

Report · Sep 19, 2013

No, they were added in the Premiere captioning box, so they are part of the exported xml. I took them out, didn't help.

Report · Sep 19, 2013

remove the media tag and retest.

Report · Sep 19, 2013

Appreciate the help, but still no bueno.

Report · Sep 19, 2013

are you using a cc component in flash?

are you using actionscript to assign the source to your cc component?

Report · Sep 20, 2013

yes and yes. actionscript 3.0

Report · Sep 20, 2013

copy and paste the code you're using to assign that tt xml to your cc component.

Report · Sep 20, 2013

i appreciate all your suggestions. But it's just not working and I've wasted enough of both of our time on this. I'm just taking a 'clean' xml template (as opposed to the dirty Premiere xml) and retyping and timing my captions.... and that works perfect.