Bulk Subtitle Import - new 2021 (15) text workflow

Question

Loving the new text / captions workflow, but....
 
I have 1000 subtitles and need to place them on a timeline to generate timings, and to export an .srt file.  But I'm in a catch-22 - it seems the new workflow will import an .srt, but not a .txt file.  
 
Does this mean I have to manually copy and paste each individual line title?  
 
Or is there perhaps a 'bulk import' function that will assign a random duration (say 1 second or whatever) to each title, which I could then finesse on the timeline.  Or any other way of bringning in text in bulk?
 
Sure would save me a tonne of time if there was!
 
Thanks
Tim
 
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Andreas Kiel · Accepted Answer

If you're on Mac OS you can use my little free "Untimed Caption Tool". It does convert .txt, .rtf, .doc and .docx text only files to either srt, vtt, Avid DS or FCP caption. The app also allows some text pre-formatting if needed.

You'll get it here:http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/Utilities/CaptionsAndText/UCT/index.html

A rough manual is included but can be downloaded individually here.

Stan Jones · Answer

Right, not supported (yet). It would be a feature request.

I would use the free Subtitle Edit: https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit

It has an "Import plain text..." option with a lot of choices for how it sets up the caption timings. It will auto-split/combine lines, use a max characters function, set durations automatically or to your set time, set a standard gap, etc. Then you can export srt and bring that into PR.

Or you can add your video to SE and make your first adjustments there.

Stan

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