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Spanish Language Captions - Problem With Accent Marks/Characters

Participant ,
Sep 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017

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When importing a Spanish language .srt file Premiere Pro CC2017 doesn't recognize the accent marks (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, ¡). They all appear as asterisks. They will show up though If I manually paste in the correct letter/accent into the captions editor. Obviously this makes adding Spanish captions a real pain to deal with. Is there something I am missing to get these .srt files to work correctly or is this just another bug?

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New Here , Sep 28, 2017 Sep 28, 2017

Hi kre57,

I have had the same issue with hungarian characters, but I changed the encoding of the srt file to UHT-8 with this tool: https://subtitletools.com/convert-text-files-to-utf8-online and now it works. https://subtitletools.com/convert-text-files-to-utf8-online

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Sep 27, 2017 Sep 27, 2017

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Hi kre57,

Sorry that you have this issue!

Let me check this internally if this is supported or not. I think it's a missing feature rather than a bug.

Additionally, can you share the SRT file with us so that we can test it?

Thanks,

Rameez

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Participant ,
Sep 28, 2017 Sep 28, 2017

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Thank you. Here's a link to the file: Adobe Share - Google Drive 

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Participant ,
Sep 28, 2017 Sep 28, 2017

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Also, Can you help with this?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2379965

Thanks.

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Sep 28, 2017 Sep 28, 2017

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Hi kre57,

I have had the same issue with hungarian characters, but I changed the encoding of the srt file to UHT-8 with this tool: https://subtitletools.com/convert-text-files-to-utf8-online and now it works. https://subtitletools.com/convert-text-files-to-utf8-online

Robert

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Participant ,
Sep 28, 2017 Sep 28, 2017

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Thanks Robert! You just saved me a bunch of time! It worked perfectly.

RameezKhan​:

While Robert's solution is a good workaround, it would be nice not to have an additional step. The .srt files I use are what YouTube provides via their subtitle tool. If it helps, here's my process:

I upload a video to YT, then paste text copied from a word doc into the

transcribe/auto sync option in the subtitle tool.

Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 8.10.17 AM.png

After publishing, I download the srt file...

Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 8.15.36 AM.png

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New Here ,
Oct 04, 2017 Oct 04, 2017

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Hi kre57,

thanks for your information, it is helpful too

I have done something similar, by english videos I use the speech recognition function of Youtube then the automatical translation and correct the results if it is necessary. This step also spares time for me when I have to translate.

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Explorer ,
Feb 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018

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There are just no words to thank you for this solution...

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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This tool worked for me on Portuguese Subs

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I tried it with my .scc file and it just spat out a .txt file that Premiere couldn't import.

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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just change the .txt to .srt using "rename"  I added the word "converted" or maybe the program did. 

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I tried that, too. It had an error saying something about a bad header.

I also just tried changing the system language to Spanish. No different.

Thanks for the ideas.

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I got the bad header, when the first few lines of times, etc... were out of whack.  I had volunteers do translating for me, and a few didn't follow the format.  Look real close at the first few lines and make sure they follow the format.  Once I went through and found a few where the numbers were mess up, it then imported.  I feel your pain.  if you want to send it to me, I'll look. 

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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Wow. I'd love it if you had a look. I just opened all the files I have in TextEdit and can't see the headers (I don't think).

But I worry. I can open the converted .srt file and the encoding is wrong or the text is wrong.

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00:02:20,292 --> 00:02:23,167

Mi cabeza me est matando.

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00:02:23,167 --> 00:02:25,042

D nde estoy?

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I don't recall 100%, but I don't think you can have two times that are the same: just make it 168, see if that helps

00:02:20,292 --> 00:02:23,167

Mi cabeza me est matando.

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00:02:23,167 --> 00:02:25,042

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Explorer ,
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018

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I hope that's not the issue. There are 1300 subtitles in the film.

This is the original .scc file that was delivered to me:

Dropbox - Dantes_Inferno_spanish_sub.scc

I'll try changing the numbers but those numbers were created in the conversion. My .scc file looks like this...

00:02:23:049420 94f4 97a1 20c4 206e 64e5 20e5 73f4 ef79 bf80 942c 8080 8080 942f

00:02:25:019420 94e0 9723 d661 7961 20e6 e9e5 73f4 6120 ec61 2064 e520 616e efe3 68e5 2c80 942c 8080 8080 942f

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Explorer ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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Here's how mine ended up looking.  I used Spanish SCC as a starting point, and asked the translator not to change any times, just change text.  Here's what mine look like, it started from a pro company though for Spanish and French: I created the VTT because that's what Vimeo prefers, so I imported my SCC...actually, you know what, it was an SRT, because those are just text files, then I exported a VTT in YouTube.  Can you load your file into YouTube? 

WEBVTT

Kind: captions

Language: pt

00:00:11.846 --> 00:00:16.818

Eu sinto como se tivesse uma

bobina quente enrolada

00:00:16.885 --> 00:00:20.555

por todo meu corpo desde meu

pescoço até meus pés.

00:00:25.927 --> 00:00:28.830

Tem a raiva, e depois este

sentimento inevitável,

00:00:28.897 --> 00:00:33.168

onde você não quer ter reações você tem,

e você só, você precisa sair.

00:00:38.239 --> 00:00:40.608

Você entende, o que isso faz comigo?

00:00:40.675 --> 00:00:42.210

É...

00:00:43.578 --> 00:00:44.846

é enfurecedor.

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Explorer ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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I'll try YouTube.

I tried Resolve last night, but it could only import .srt not .scc

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Explorer ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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you can convert from scc to srt: https://subtitletools.com/

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May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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I converted it with the SRT to try it in Resolve. And the same results: accented letters are gone.

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Explorer ,
May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018

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and that's with the using UT-8 converter?  that solved it for me, but only to an SRT, not SCC...I had the same results as you.  I stopped using Premiere and just used YouTube; it's a clunky interface, but you can tweak and export to various file types.  upload your video to YouTube unlisted and then click on the 3 dots below the player on the right and I believe it says "translation/languages".  if it won't load in YouTube, then there is an issue with some of the code, but it usually tells you the error. 

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Sep 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018

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Lifesaver!!! Thanks Robert!!

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Mar 06, 2021 Mar 06, 2021

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Thank you! This fix saved me a lot of time and stress working at the weekend!

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Jul 10, 2023 Jul 10, 2023

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This worked for me too. A colleage had used a txt to srt program which coded my file differently so Premiere wouldn´t import it. I tried this tool and my subtitles imported perfectly.

 

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Thanks for sharing your workflows, kre57 & Robert! I have forwarded this information to the engineer.

Best,

Rameez

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