Can I use XML to change Text in Opening Credits/ Captions?

[RajneshD]

Greetings,

    I have a film that I need to Title/ Subtitle in over 30 Languages (English, French etc.)

    In the project file, I've created Clips for each of the Opening Credits. In the PP I use a Dynamic Link with AE to animate the Credits.

    I have Captions/ subtitles in a ".srt" format file.

    I'll have Rolling Credits at the end.

    I'd like to avoid having to cut/paste Text into the Opening Credits/ Subtitles/ Rolling Credits in PP for each of the languages.

    In the Ideal Case:

    I'd like to store the Text source files in separate directories.

    Since I know Perl Programming, and can general XML files, I'd like to be able to leverage them to change the text in PP automatically.

    Is this possible? And if so, could you point me to some info to get me started?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Rajnesh

[Stan Jones]

Are you burning in the captions?

Are you aware of the SDK?

[RajneshD]

I am burning in the Captions.

I'm not aware of the SDK, Stan. Could you please point me to info about it?

And Thank you for replying.

Regards,

Rajnesh

[Stan Jones]

Here is the PR SDK forum:

Premiere Pro SDK

But for burned in captions, I would follow Neil's suggestion, and use scripting in after effects to pull from a text file and populate your subtitles. The PR captions tool can have its issues, and I think you'll find it easier to simply create titles in after effects.

[Stan Jones]

See this:

The scientific Swede: Importing SRT subtitles in After Effects

[RajneshD]

Thank you Stan.

I‘m heading over to Subtitle heaven.

Take care,

Rajnesh

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

You can use json to add/modify/change data and text in Ae. I think that would also work with mogrts there.

Neil

[RajneshD]

Greetings Neil,

i just saw this on Adobe's Website:   Work with Data-driven animation

It has a brief introduction to using Json with AE. Can you point me to finding more info?

Thank you.

Regards,

Rajnesh

[dimailer]

Hi Rajnesh, did you find an answer how to do it in Premiere? (I know about how to do it in After Effects). Please let me know and thanks!

[Stan Jones]

dimailer,

This is an old thread, and the PR subtitles have been completely reworked. If you are primarily interested in subtitles, check out the new workflow and speech to text.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/working-with-captions.html

Stan