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Adjust multi subtitles in Premiere pro cc 2017

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December 7, 2016
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I'm currently doing some tasks require importing .srt file which is made by other 3rd software such as Aegisub. As I see, no matter what the font style I made on aegisub, by default on Captions windows Premiere Pro will read .srt file as Helvetica font (MAC) or Arial (Windows), size 18, "almost" white color.

- So the question is how can I manage Premiere Pro to import the subtitle with the exact font style as done in 3rd party software like Aegisub?

- And assuming that I imported .srt file that have 500 subtitles and now I need to change all the text's color, is there any way to do that without changing every single line on Captions windows?

I'm using Premiere Pro CC 2017.

Thank you! Any help is appreciated.

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simond48112824

Participating Frequently

This is now fixed . . . on open subtitles only as far as I'm aware, but I may be wrong. Simply right click on the subtitles to 'select all' and edit their appearance to your hearts content!

Spamhunter

Inspiring

Funny, I was on it again today & discovered by accident that by right-clicking in the times column of Captions - only - I could select all the captions for style editing. I never found a tut that showed me that. It still needed adjusting of properties ("Modify"), where the "Time Display Format", "Timecode" and "Timebase" appear with different framerates! (Go figure!).

Then I had one caption lasting the whole film although it should only have displayed a couple of seconds. Not sure how, but fiddling with the alpha settings seemed to work. In (click-right on the Caption item in the Project>) Modify>Interpret Footage I have "Square Pixels" & "Conform alpha premultiplication to:" with "Premultiplied alpha" UNticked.

Of course, various restrictions seem to be built into the Captions facility that I don't have with my dedicated subtitling tools (e.g. I can't lower it below 89%), so I expect to continue with the latter (I'm doing this for a client). Even in the tuts they take about 5 minutes for 3 captions; it looks rather slow for business purposes.

And why is the Captions import default resolution 720 x 480, in 2017?

I did find it made sense to do all my font editing & config in the Captions panel before adding it to the sequence, so they were just "there" when I pasted them in over the video.

Just for info, .srt ONLY carries subtitle number, time-IN, time-OUT & text. And also regular/italic/bold info. That's it. No fonts, font sizes, colours, borders, resolution, position, etc. All of that is configured in Captions (or in other subtitle formats).

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Duke3x

Participant

Same here! Have you figured it out yet?

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

File that feature request! Let's get this done.

Spamhunter

Inspiring

That was requested YEARS ago. Still not done. Shocking.

simond48112824

Participating Frequently

I have the same issue. It's infuriating. Actually managed to import an SRT file created with YouTube's voice to text functionality which saved hours, but once imported it seems Premiere Pro has very poor functionality for editing the appearance of subtitles. I found I could edit them as if they are video, changing their scale and position on the screen, but as far as copying and pasting attributes for example or mass change of the font, it's useless. This needs sorting!

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excited_Genie16B8

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Those would actually be Closed (or Open) Captions.

Subtitles are just regular titles that appear at the bottom of the screen.

Unfortunately, there is no simple method to adjust either en masse.

FR: Global Templates for Titles

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