editing many subtitles at the same time

Hi Thomas,

I have a solution for you! I work frequently with subtitles - and I mean subtitling hours and hours of raw footage before the edit even takes place - so I've spent a long time researching the most robust, highly compatible solution to work with Premiere. First point to make - every solution Premiere has ever offered is complete rubbish. Closed captions are a strange hangover from the 80s...

Anyway, grab this handy little tool - http://www.finalsub.com/premieresrt.html​​. You'll need to export a blank sequence xml from Premiere to the video specs you need, export a title file with the font, size and colour you want and spit out a .srt file from Annotation Transcriber. Put all three files into PremiereSRT and it'll create an XML - upon importing this to Premiere you'll have a new sequence with your editable subtitles laid out just as they were created!

Plus... while we're here... the same developer dude at finalsub.com also makes a brilliant alternative to Annotation Transcriber that looks and feels like it's from the 21st century. It's called Subtitle Edit Pro and almost brought tears to my eyes the first time I used it... can't recommend it highly enough.

Of course, I'm not paid to endorse any of this stuff. I just hate doing subs and want it to be over as quickly and painlessly as possible - these tools assist immensely.

Good luck!

Hi Raditom,

Create a feature request here. In the mean time, use this workaround: How to update multiple titles in Premiere Pro using InDesign on Vimeo

Thanks,
Kevin