Trouble rendering subtitles

Report · Sep 23, 2023

I'm new to Premiere Pro and I need some help! I added subtitles to a voice over in my video. It works when watching in playback but not after rendering. What do I do? Basically after rendering I still hear the voice over with a blank screen and no subtitles. In the second half of that section I have an image and the subitiles appear there but not on the blank sceen. I want back and added an image to see if if would fill that gap and show the text. All works great as I review the video in Premiere Pro but not after I Render. So i have a completed wedding video with client waiting but this is the only hick-up.

Any advice is more than appreciated

Report · Sep 23, 2023

Assuming that you are using a Captions Track, you'll want to check that your export settings have Captions enabled.

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You'll then want to specify if the captions are written to a side car file (like SRT), burned in, or with some formate (like QuickTime) embedded.

I'd consider offering both a side car version (so the MP4 and SRT) and burned in version (just the MP4 with burned in captions) of the wedding video, delivering a total of three files. The filenames would be something like "wedding.mp4" with "wedding.srt" and also "wedding_captions_burned_in.mp4".

Report · Sep 23, 2023

@Livingthesend,

By rendering, do you mean exporting? If so, start with Warren's recommendation to export using burned in.

But are you also saying that the main video is not showing?

Why are you using Austrailian-OP47 format subtitles? If you are burning in or exporting a simple sidecar, just use the Subtitle format. but that should not prevent exporting with burned in captions.

Stan