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Export to mp4 + srt

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December 15, 2017
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I am new to Adobe Premiere Pro. I have edited a video with audio and open captions and I would like to export the outcome to mp4, with all open captions in one .SRT file. But when I go to File > Export > Media, i don't have the option to export the video to mp4; and the 'Captions' tab in the Export Settings dialog box does not offer the option to export to SRT. The output is always .3gp. What's up???

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Correct answer kulpreet singh

Hi martineg48170794,

Create a closed caption, if you want to export a sidecar (.srt).

Learn to work with captions in Premiere Pro

Thanks,

Kulpreet Singh

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Byron Cortez

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First you have to create Captions, you can't export .srt with text that was made with the Text Tool o Tittle window.

Follow this steps to create Captions and then export .srt:

* Create a Captions... in the New Item button. Follow the steps like the captures.

* Captions is created in the Project panel, doble clic in it and configure your text and put the In and Out timecode. After this you can add more lines of text with "+" button in the botton of the Caption panel.

Drag the Captions at the timeline.

Go to the Settings button at the Program view and select Settings...

Again, Go to the Settings button at the Program view and select Enable. With this the Captions will appear in the Program View

Your workflow it will looks like this

And when you export you'll have the option Subtitles active to export .srt file

And that's it. I hope I have been helpful.

Byron.

martineg48170794Author

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Thanks a lot for the detailed steps but my question now is rather: can you have 'nicer' formatting of closed captions than those ugly big white fonts with no background? Thanks again.

martineg48170794Author

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It is rare that you do not appear in the SRT format, I will try to investigate a little more about that in order to help you. With respect to changing the whole background if you can, but for that you must have created an Open Captions,
in that case if you can remove the background with a single step selecting everything while pressing the Shift key in the first Captions and then in the last, then you put 0% opacity.

If you created a CEA-608 or CEA-708 for example, you can change all the text by selecting it with the Shift key pressed but the background is complicated if you want to change everything with just one step.

Thanks again for your answer but my captions are not open but closed captions (it took me quite some time to convert the original open captions to closed captions as I need to have a separate SRT file for translation purposes). And the Shift key does not seem to work with closed captions. Do you think that adding at least a font color to all captions in the SRT, and then re-importing this to Premiere would do the trick?? And what's the tag to be used for the background color of captions in the SRT? I have tried to export captions again with a different background color but the tag still does not show in the resulting SRT.

Thanks again.