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Adobe Premiere srt fps import problem

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March 24, 2021
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In Adobe Premiere 2020 version, there were options to import srt formatted subtitles to the project. We could choose the one we want to use from the subtitle fps options. There is no such option in the 2021 version. The program automatically sees srt as 30fps. And this cannot be changed. Has anyone had this problem and found a solution in version 15?

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GW Queen

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the problem i find is , premiere import srt to 24fps timeline is 23.98,
xml hv the same problem,
thats why no film maker use premiere to edit.

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Trent Happel

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Sorry, I was out of office for a while and I'm still catching up.

With the old Caption workflows (14.x and earlier) we were treating Captions as video items, so frame rate was a concept that fit. With the New Captions in 15.0+ Captions are now data items, so the concept of frame rate doesn't really apply. Reporting 30 fps for New Captions is definitely something we can improve upon to avoid confusion. One thought is to not list any frame rate, but would love to hear feedback from you and others.

Import Settings was not carried over to the New Caption workflow in Premiere Pro 15.0. Could you explain what type of issues you are running into with New Captions in 15.0 that might be solved by Import Settings?

Thank you.

Stan Jones

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Your clarification is helpful; avoiding the confusion is a good first step.

I think the real problems are not the import settings per se. There are reports of old projects coming in with messed up timecodes and/or issues on export. I have not been able to focus on them to understand whether these are user error, conversion problems (old captions to new), import problems, or the type of timecode/sync issues that happen when exported srt/stl/whatever enter the "real" world of playback on any number of platforms.

In the old workflow, it made sense to think in terms of the caption framerate and the sequence etc, even though it often was not what it seemed.

Stan

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sindreb66241960

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sindreb,

What do you mean "the timecode were suddenly changed"? I assume you mean that the timecodes shown in the Text Panel (and on the timeline) are not what is in the file? What is actually in sync; the original times or the new times?

I am never confident that I understand when PR modifies the timecodes in an imported sidecar file. I currently believe this only happens with closed caption files, but I always test the issue when it arises.

Otherwise, PR should simply take the timecodes it is given. If you time captions in a 30 fps timeline, export srt, then import them to a 24 fps timeline, they would be off.

In the current caption workflow (i.e. PR 2021 and newer), I believe that the best way to import srt is directly to a timeline using the Text Panel "import captions from file." They are not video clips and they do not have a framerate property. It will ALWAYS say 30fps in the Project Panel, but that is arbitrary.

If you have imported srt and want to start over, rename the file before reimporting.

Stan

I am not sure if I am able to convay this correctly.

But I formated my SRT-file with timecodes. When I imported the SRT-file into a project, the timecode would match only if the timeline had 30fps. If I changed the timeline to let's say 60fps, the timecode didn't match the ones I had written in the text-document.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

I don't see any import settings.

@Trent Happel Can you enlighten us?

Stan

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