Premiere Pro 25.1 Issues with .srt files

[kevinm93921807]

Hi, I am experiencing an issue with importing a properly timed .srt file to a 25fps timeline. Even though all I have read says that this should not be an issue as the .srt file has running time start/end timings and it works fine in Youtube, when I import the file, the captions run out of sync, and it shows the .srt file as 30 fps. The video is 90 minutes long so you can see the issue here.

Can anyone shed light on this for me?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @,

Thanks for the message. Welcome to the forum. Your questions are always welcome here. Recently, I had a similar issue when attaching a .srt file to a video file I uploaded to X (Twitter). The timing was not accurate at all. I wondered what I may have done wrong. I did not check to see if the text for the frame rate of the .srt matched the sequence settings. I'll go back and check. Otherwise, this post may hold some solution for you if the timing is only slightly off. I hope we can help you troubleshoot this issue, as it should be more intuitive to get right. Sorry for the problem.

Cheers,
Kevin

[kevinm93921807]

Slight clarification, it works fine in Youtube timings are faithful.It's when I import into Premiere that I get the issues - Premiere says the .srt file is 30 fps, but the timeline is 25 fps. The timing runs way off on a 90 minute video!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @kevinm93921807,

Thanks for the response. I see what you're saying. Premiere Pro has an issue in not being able to reflect the frame rate of the actual sequence properly. Would you like me to move this Discussion to the Bugs forum so that the team can try and reproduce the issue? Let me know. I hope I can help you resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Averdahl · Accepted solution]

All srt files comes in as 30 fps for some (yet) unknown reason, but that does not matter in the end since it´s the timecode in the srt that counts. I use 25 fps video as well and has no issues with srt files that always comes in as 30 fps.

Before i import any srt file i run the through Nikse - Subtitle Edit and check it there using the "Fix common errors" command. Try that with your srt file and see if it finds any error.

Mine are formatted as this:

1
00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,080
Text here...

2
00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,840
Here as well...

3
00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,000
Blah, blah, blah.

4
00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:29,840
More blah, blah, blah...

Premiere says the .srt file is 30 fps, but the timeline is 25 fps.

By @kevinm93921807

[kevinm93921807]

This is the answer! I use a program called Jubler for Mac and it can do the same thing. I'm still unclear on how Premiere can not read the start-end times of the .srt file...

[Averdahl]

Did you use Jubler to check the srt file?

One good thing to know is that if you import a srt file and then do any changes to it it in Jubler/Subtitle Edit it will not auto-update in Premiere Pro, you have to delete it in Premiere Pro and then re-import it. That´s why i do those things before i even import the srt file.

• Have you tried another Premiere Pro version?
• What version do you use today? (Help > About Premiere Pro)

Have you looked into the srt file, iow if you notice that the text should show up at 80 minutes, how does it look in the srt file? For example, you expect the text at 80 minutes but the srt file says 79 minutes and 53 seconds.

I use srt files almost daily with timelines up to +2 hours and have never had any sync issues. So i suspect that the srt file or the video has some kind of error. A wrongly formatted srt file or variable frame rate in the video or a bug in the Mac version of Premiere Pro. All issues i have had has been there because the srt file was wrongly formatted.

This is the answer! I use a program called Jubler for Mac and it can do the same thing. I'm still unclear on how Premiere can not read the start-end times of the .srt file...

By @kevinm93921807