Automating Subtitles in Premiere?

[waxsteel]

Having gone round the forums all day I still can't find an answer to this.

I have to produce a duplicate video of my 4 min edit with burned in foreign language subtitles ( not a separate stream or anything). Many examples talk about importing subtitles with timecode into Encore but I'm making a standalone video for the web (WMV), not DVD or BluRay, so I need to do it in Premiere.

In Premiere I can manually copy text into titles and manually sync them using timecode ref, but isn't there a faster way as this might take around a day to do manually.

I've picked up on Subtitle Workshop   http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw

but this just seems to reformat timecode text files ( into SAMI, etc) and does not render them out as anything I can directly import into Premiere.

Is there any useful import method into Premiere that just works with the timecode file to create a seamless animated subtitle/ sequence of subtitles? Or is there some text animation program that will allow me to render out the file (as frame sequence or quicktime with alpha)  and then import that as footage into Premiere?

Any help gratefully received - using CS4 production bundle on a pc.

[Ann Bens]

Nope. If you want burned in subtitles you are stuck to to titler.

You do can copy text from say Word or some other text edtior.

Alsoyou can use the option : 'new title based on current title' in the Titler

or make a Style for the text or make a template.

[Gonzchi]

why don't you do all your editing first with Premiere , and then add the subtitles on a second step with other tools ?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-add-subtitles-to-a-movie-or-television-series/

Gonza

[waxsteel]

Thanks for these.

The Subtitle burning is what we're after. Thanks for the Link to doing it with VirtualDub. Unfortunately it takes you off to doing avi files but it seems standard on the pc side of things. I will have a go with this.

Otherwise if we go with a commercial software solution I just found EZ titles. http://www.eztitles.com/index.php?page=26

Anyone used this? No, I don't work for them.

[the_wine_snob]

I have not. For my limited uses of Subtitles, I do the Encore, selectable language route. That is where Subtitle Workshop comes into the workflow. That is not what you want, and EZ-Title might be a useful tool. I will research it a bit, as it sounds like a good utility to have.

Good luck, and please update the thread with your findings on that program, as many do want burned in Lower-Thirds for Subtiltes.

Hunt

[AGENTFOX2010]

I have finally add subtitles to Adobe Premiere after many hours on the computer

Firstly Create the Subtitles Using Subtitle Workshop

http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw

Add Clip to see if the subtitles are in the right position

Save Subtitles as Subrip

Once Subtitles are complete

Create asmall timeline with in Adobe Premiere with 2 frame of the Original Clip thenadd the rest with a Colour Mat with Blue selected as the colour

Drag the Colour mat for the duration of the Clip which needs subtitles

Then export video

Then Use Auto Gordian Knot

http://www.autogk.me.uk/

Add the 2 Frames of Clip with the Colour mat

Press F8 then add the Subtitles

Test Preview and see if you’re happy with the output

Should see the Subtitle with a Blue background

After completed import the new video with the 2 frame of clip and the Blue Colour mat

Remove the 2 frames that were add

Add into the Project Timeline

Add a Chroma Key Effect to the new import clip

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WSBBDC179E-5E14-4714-9581-8F67BAA6...

After this is done your project is now complete with permanent subtitles

Enjoy Agent Fox

[Guest]

AGENTFOX2010 wrote:

I have finally add subtitles to Adobe Premiere after many hours on the computer

Firstly Create the Subtitles Using Subtitle Workshop

http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw

Add Clip to see if the subtitles are in the right position

Save Subtitles as Subrip

Once Subtitles are complete

Create asmall timeline with in Adobe Premiere with 2 frame of the Original Clip thenadd the rest with a Colour Mat with Blue selected as the colour

Drag the Colour mat for the duration of the Clip which needs subtitles

Then export video

Then Use Auto Gordian Knot

http://www.autogk.me.uk/

Add the 2 Frames of Clip with the Colour mat

Press F8 then add the Subtitles

Test Preview and see if you’re happy with the output

Should see the Subtitle with a Blue background

After completed import the new video with the 2 frame of clip and the Blue Colour mat

Remove the 2 frames that were add

Add into the Project Timeline

Add a Chroma Key Effect to the new import clip

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WSBB DC179E-5E14-4714-9581-8F67BAA...

After this is done your project is now complete with permanent subtitles

Enjoy Agent Fox

A minor correction to your instructions:  It's CTRL + F8, not just F8, to add a subtitles file.