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September 28, 2021
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Any ideas on how to semi-quickly convert captions in Essential Graphics to SRT file?

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I have a project that I edited in Premiere Pro 2018.

Back then, at least to my knowledge, the tools for creating captions was somewhat limited to what there is today in Premiere Pro.

I recall starting out creating captions using the dedicated captions tools, using File > New > Caption and so on, but then finding it extremely buggy, with caption formatting changing randomly.

I ended up creating the captions using Essential Graphics.

So right now I have a dedicated track above the video with dozens of clips containing Essential Graphics text — each clip extended to approximately 2 to 3 seconds — from the IN point to the OUT point of that particular caption.

Today, I need to create an SRT file based on those captions.

I realize there's probably no way to just simply export the text from the Essential Graphics clips into an SRT file that notes the IN and OUT points of each clip, etc.

But was hoping maybe someone has an idea of a way to do this somewhat quickly?

I definetly hope I don't have to just manually copy and paste each caption text and IN/OUT points manually.

Any help here would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

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Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew
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September 28, 2021

Doubt any 3rd party tool exists for this specific use case. Fastest fix would be copy paste unfortunately.

aaddiiooss작성자
Inspiring
September 28, 2021

I managed to extract the timecodes of each IN and OUT by doing the following:

  1. Export the video track containing the Essential Graphics text to EDL.
  2. copy the EDL contents and paste into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
  3. Then in the spreadsheet, select the column with the text and in the main menu, choose "Data"> "Split text to columns".
  4. Then delete all colunns except for the IN and OUT timecodes.

 

Now, all I need to do is find a way to extract the text from the Essential Graphics.

I found this thread here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/export-essential-graphic-s-text-as-text-file-on-premiere-pro-scripting/td-p/10933775

It seems to have the solution I'm looking for, but I can't figure out how this was done exactly. I've exported the mogrt file, but not sure how to extract the text from the mogrt file. Anyone have an idea how to do this?

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew
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September 29, 2021

You'd need to write your own CEP panel that goes through each MOGRT clip and reads the contents and then generate a list and output it as a CSV or something to be used in another app.