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Jonathan Ley
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December 20, 2016
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Exporting open captions as .srt file (Premiere Pro 14.9 or earlier)

  • December 20, 2016
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Hi,

 

The Adobe help page on working with captions (Learn to work with captions in Premiere Pro ) states that:

 

'You can export Open Captions as Open Caption formatted SRT and XML files and also convert single stream sidecar and embedded single stream files to Open Caption in Premiere Pro.'

 

I'm working with Open Captions (in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.0.1) and whilst I can burn them into the finished film no problem, I can't seen any way to export the open captions as a separate .srt file.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

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    Correct answer Richard van den Boogaard

    HI, I'm getting close by following your method, but I'm not getting the sidecar file when I finish exporting. Plus, I have to export the whole video just to see if there's a sidecar at the end, and there isn't.

    What kind of format do you choose in your export settings? I understand your instructions about the Captions settings, but I mean the format options at the top. I've tried mp4 and png sequence. I've also tried deactivating the video tracks except the open caption track but still to no avail.

    Would it have been easier if I hadn't started with Open Captions? If so, any way to convert?

    Thanks!


    Hi,

    To export the captions as a separate SRT file (or various other formats) do this:

    Select the file that says Captions in the Project Panel.

    Go to the menu File > Export > Captions and select the SubRip file format from the top Dropdown box.

    This will not render out the video, but ONLY save the captions file as an SRT.

    (It took me a while to figure this out as well)

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    Arvo-Latile
    Participant
    November 23, 2017

    Hero

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      Zach~
      Participant
      April 20, 2017

      Your going to love me. Here is a workaround on this glitch:

      When you are ready to export, select your timeline and SOMETHING else in the Project Window. Then when you export and go to the Captioning window- the export sidecar option will magically work.

      Hope this saved you hours of frustration.

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        imaginarts
        Participant
        April 26, 2017

        Thanks a lot. Works perfectly!

        figolucas
        figolucas
        Participant
        May 4, 2017

        Hi! I saw that you tried to export an open caption as a sidecar file and was able to do it with the help of the community in this forum . I tried the same thing that people recommended you and it didn't work. Is there any advice that you can give me? Maybe i'm doing something wrong. Thanks in a advance!

        MaxAff
        MaxAff
        Participating Frequently
        March 6, 2017

        I'm asking myself the same exact question :

        "You can export Open Captions as Open Caption formatted SRT and XML files and also convert single stream sidecar and embedded single stream files to Open Caption in Premiere Pro."

        Thanks, but how ?

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        Chauncey Alan
        Participating Frequently
        March 20, 2017

        cmd M then in second box on menu : Captions set Create sidecar File and choose srt. and export the bad boy!

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