When exporting .SRT, literally no file is being created

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Simple as that. My premiere is up-to-date (22.2.0) and I'm exporting from the Captions & Graphics window where I hit the ellipses, and export to .SRT. I've also tried creating a sidecar .SRT when exporting the video. The video creates but the .SRT doesn't. The video is 31 minutes long and I had no issues transcribing or captioning it, so I don't know why the file literally doesn't create.

I opened an older video and tried exporting captions from that and it worked fine. I exported the transcript and re-imported it into a new file and tried exporting the .SRT from the new file and it still didn't create anything.

default7mvgf2njwkbp · Answer

I solved the problem - but I'd like Adobe to know what went wrong.

There were 2 problems

Somehow in the captions, there was a completely blank caption clip. It was a half a second or so but had no text whatsoever. When I deleted that clip - the file exported normally.
When exporting, there was no export error or any indication that anything had gone wrong. In fact it's not even that anything 'went wrong' so much as, Premiere didn't do anything or tell me it did nothing.

There needs to be an error saying your .SRT will not export when there is an empty captioning clip in your timeline and it should give you the timecode of where exactly the problem is. To solve the issue, I had to delete 5 minute chunks of captions, exporting .SRTs that didn't have those 5 minutes, until I was able to identify where in the timeline the issue was, and then I looked closely at those 5 minutes of captions until I saw the blank clip. Very frustrating, took me 90 minutes or so of clearing caches, resetting preferences, and more than one complete restart of my comp.

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