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martycg
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May 26, 2022
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Premiere Generated Captions Causing YouTube to Glitch

  • May 26, 2022
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Hi

We exported our 608 captions to an SRT file and then uploaded to YT. Our captioner is trying to edit the less than perfect auto-generated captions that Premiere made. However, the captions are making YT to glitch and crash. When they try to edit the captions that YT generates it works fine.... I know this is half a YT question, but would appreciate anyone's expertise.

Thanks!

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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May 26, 2022

608 in PR, export SRT. Then captioner edit, and import to YT? Or import to YT and editing in YT?

 

Stan

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martycgAuthor
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May 26, 2022

Thanks, yes, that's what we're doing... 608 in PR, exporting to SRT, then importing them into YT and using their editor to fix them up. That's making YT glitch and crash.

Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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May 28, 2022

I looked at your srt file. I don't see anything that should cause problems, but...

 

I looked at the srt with Subtitle Edit (free), and it shows 3 types of errors; none of which should cause problems: overlapping timecodes, short lines, and long captions (but only 3 and only 8 seconds).

 

PR previously and in the new workflow sets the ending timecode as the frame after the caption. (If you go to that timecode, you don't see the caption. One frame back and you do.) SubtitleEdit flags these as "overlapping display time," and fixes them by reducing the ending timecode by one millisecond. (That doesn't seem quite right to me, because the one frame before would be more than one millisecond. But SE doesn't have to then calculate the milliseconds, which vary based on framerate.)

 

But Youtube happily imports the PR srt, so I don't think this should cause problems.

 

You can use SE to fix the overlapping timecode to see if that helps. But if Youtube has some problem, it will still have a problem. I would consider using SE to retime the stream. It has great tools for doing so, but there would be a learning curve.

 

Stan

 

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