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JxniceLim
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February 6, 2020
Question

Converting Titles to Captions

  • February 6, 2020
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Dear All,

I have recently subtitled a 2-hr long film with the title tool instead of the caption tool. When I embarked, I was unaware that the caption tool existed or that I could export a beautiful .srt file from it. Now I seek to convert all my titles to captions, and then convert a .srt file. 

I have tried to export .xml and .omf to convert to .srt with some freeware on the internet but all those have failed. 
If anyone has a solution to this, or has a freeware that is realiable I will greatly appreciate it.

 

Thank you in advance.

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    sonojohn
    Participant
    July 13, 2023

    I've found a way that is faster than copying all titles to subtitles:

    1: In Premiere I saved a .txt file from Graphics -> Export to text file

    2: I edited the .txt file - a) deleting every track info like "V5, 1" b) changing the "-" to "-->" c) adding numbers from 1 to number of lines of titles above each line

    3: I saved the file as ".srt" - Line breaks = Windows (CRLF) and Encoding Unicode (UTF with BOM)

    Lastly in Premiere Pro I created a subtitle track from the srt file - worked perfectly.

    Here's an example of changing one line:

    //---------------------------------------

    TXT FILE:

    00:00:44:01 - 00:00:49:12

    V5, 1

    This is a text.

    SRT FILE AFTER EDITING:

    6

    00:00:44:01 --> 00:00:49:12

    This is a text.

    //---------------------------------------

    I used BBedit on Mac which has a great find an replace option - but any text editor is fine.

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      sonojohn
      Participant
      July 13, 2023

      I am not sure how important the "Line breaks = Windows (CRLF) and Encoding Unicode (UTF with BOM)" is, maybe it's not crucial.

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      The Lane5C7C
      Participant
      March 2, 2022

      Hello all,

       

      Just wanted to follow up there any updates regarding converting titles to captions?

       

      if yes, is there any tutorial on how to do it? 

       

      Thank you 😃

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        Emaniquis
        Participant
        August 28, 2022

        Did anyone find out a way to convert Titles to captions I'm having to manually do it here as well

        thanks for any info!

        Ethan

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          Adibness
          Participant
          July 4, 2023

          I've still not fopund anything on this. It seems like it should be straight forward!

          Shivangi_Gupta
          Community Manager
          Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          February 7, 2020

          Hi there,

          That is an interesting question. As far as I know, it is not possible to convert the titles into captions. However, I'll research the issue at my end and see if there is any other workaround available in this situation.

          Regards,

          Shivangi

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          nickl17215614
          Participant
          October 30, 2020

          That would be a great feature! Imagine not having to manually re-copy and paste dozens or hundreds of lines of text!

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          Kito5CDC
          Participant
          July 11, 2021

          This is not possible using PR only. It is possible for someone to create a script to do this (I think), but I don't think it has been done.

           

          The Beta is a work in progress, and does not yet have the ability to export srt at all. And I'd be surprised if they have added a "convert regular graphics text" to caption text at the early stage.

           

          Yes, it is a high priority as a feature to add. And since both functions will now live in the graphics text space (I think), it should be very possible.

           

          Stan 


          Please add that feature soon

           

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