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kimp24297474
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January 12, 2018
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How to Export Captions as a separate .SCC file in Premiere Pro 2018? (Premiere Pro 14.9 and earlier)

  • January 12, 2018
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Hello,

 

I'm trying to export my video and my captions separately in Premiere Pro 2018 so that I may upload the .scc file separately on platforms like Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc... (I chose .scc as my format because it seems to be standard across multiple platforms, but I am open to other options).

 

Currently, I've created "Open Captions" because these allow me the design options I need to customize the subtitles (color, size, font options), but noticed when I got to export, my only options are "None" or "Burn Captions into Video."

 

After some research, I figured I was running into this issue because of (a) bugs in Premiere Pro 2018, and/or (b) I was using "Open Captions." So I decided to create Closed Captions (CEA-608 & 708) & "Teletext," & I was able to get the "Create Sidecar Files" option upon export with these, but here is where I am having issues...

  • No freedom in design with these types of captions
  • No preview in my Source monitor or my Program monitor, no matter how I interpreted the footage
  • Although I have the "Create Sidecar Option," the Format under the "Export Settings" dialogue defaults to "OpenEXR" with a "Piz" compression preset...
    • This could be my inexperience with exporting captions, but which format option do I choose so that I can export .scc files, not .exr?
    • Note: I did try exporting these just in case I was misinterpreting the Export Settings, but all I got was a folder full of separate .exr files (yikes)!

 

Please advise further steps on how to export these captions, & in what format. I'd hate to have to download other software or some kind of conversion program as I would like to think this is a user-error & not Premiere Pro.

 

Thank you!

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ANSWER:

  • First, in order to understand what type of captions I needed, I had to do some more research on the difference between closed & open captions, as well as CEA-608 vs CEA-708; learn more here: http://www.3playmedia.com/2015/08/11/whats-the-difference-between-cea-608-line-21-captions-cea-708-captions/
  • I realized, if I want a separate file, then I need to use CEA-708 captions, ensure that these are set to "Service 1," in accordance with the "Closed Captions Display" button on the Program Monitor (if you don't see this, you can add the button via the "Button Editor")
  • Note: you cannot edit font & size in closed captions (even though standard CEA-708 captions allow 8 font options, 3 text sizes, 64 text colors, and 64 background colors - 3playmedia), Premiere doesn't ahve that feature yet; you can only change these options in open captions.
  • Upon export, with all of these settings in order, I was able to select "Create Sidecar Files" under the captions dialogue (keep in mind, I double-clicked on the captions in my timeline so that they would pop up in my Source Monitor, and I selected 'Export' after ensuring that my Source Monitor was selected). Under "File Format," I selected "SubRip Subtitle Format (.srt)" & didn't arrange any other settings. This worked like a charm.

I hope this helps someone else out there in my shoes!

All the best!

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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May 19, 2020

Responding re the first frame at your other post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/how-do-i-export-captions-as-a-separate-scc-file-in-premiere-pro-2018/m-p/11142165?page=1

 

Stan

Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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May 7, 2020

This is an old thread. What version of PR are you running?

 

"The platforms" covers a lot of territory. You can make many covnersions using a third party tool (like the free SubtitleEdit). So it depends on your specific purpose.

 

Stan

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briand1740798
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May 7, 2020

Hi Stan,

 

I'm on Premiere Pro CC 2019.

 

Here's my story: I was asked to deliver both a .SRT file and a .SCC file as part of the deliverables package for my film. I mastered my timeline in 23.98. I ordered captions from REV.com, and apparently you can't order a 23.98 (24) .SCC file automatically from the site, their support team does a conversion for you upon request...I have no idea what that looks like on the backend, but this is what I worked off of.

 

I edited both files in Premiere and am now doing my outputs. It appears that Premiere only lets you do the .SRT out as a sidecar file and there are some online converters that can translate it back into .SCC.

 

The problem I'm having now is that I can't even get a good sidecar file export out of Premiere. My original .SRT file is close but the length of the caption track doesn't match the length of the video track (I already know Amazon will bounce it if the lengths don't match)...I dragged the captions track on the timeline all the way to my out but it still reverts back to the out of my last caption.

 

That .SCC file I got from REV is all kinds of wonky. I tried reimporting it back into Premiere and it's only 3 minutes (out of 89 minute timeline).

 

I think my goal now is to get a solid SRT working and then use one of those online converters to make the other .SCC file. I guess my question now is how do I best export out the .SRT?

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briand1740798
Participating Frequently
May 19, 2020

(I sent brian a PM and he shared the .srt and .scc files.)

 

The end of the srt is 01:29:06,424. (424 milliseconds in 23.986 is about 10 frames)

The end of the scc is 01:29:04;17.

So, yes, 41ish frames shorter.

 

When I convert the srt to scc (in SubtitleEdit), the scc end is 01:29:06:10. So I would try converting again. (I'll send you my conversion.)

 

Stan

 

  

 


Hi Stan,

 

It's me again. Hopefully this will be for the last time... I feel really stuck, because I thought I had my whole workflow down but I still cannot export out a .SCC file with a caption starting at 00:00:00:00 or first frame of video.

 

I was working in a 23.976 timeline and editing off of the 29.97 non-drop .scc file I downloaded from Rev.com. I used Premiere to edit it, for literally days, getting every caption to time.

 

Now when I go to export out as a side-car file at 29.97 non-drop, I re-import them back in to make sure everything is okay, and instead of my first caption starting at 00:00:00:00, it will start at 00:00:00:15.

 

When you play it frame by frame in the Program Monitor, this is also evident. Even though the caption group itself extends to the very first frame, the text itself within that caption doesn't come until 15 frames later. 

 

If I can just get the first caption to start at 00:00:00:00, I think I will finally have everything I need. Any help is greatly greatly appreciated it.

 

Brian

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kimp24297474作成者解決！
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January 23, 2018

ANSWER:

  • First, in order to understand what type of captions I needed, I had to do some more research on the difference between closed & open captions, as well as CEA-608 vs CEA-708; learn more here: http://www.3playmedia.com/2015/08/11/whats-the-difference-between-cea-608-line-21-captions-cea-708-captions/
  • I realized, if I want a separate file, then I need to use CEA-708 captions, ensure that these are set to "Service 1," in accordance with the "Closed Captions Display" button on the Program Monitor (if you don't see this, you can add the button via the "Button Editor")
  • Note: you cannot edit font & size in closed captions (even though standard CEA-708 captions allow 8 font options, 3 text sizes, 64 text colors, and 64 background colors - 3playmedia), Premiere doesn't ahve that feature yet; you can only change these options in open captions.
  • Upon export, with all of these settings in order, I was able to select "Create Sidecar Files" under the captions dialogue (keep in mind, I double-clicked on the captions in my timeline so that they would pop up in my Source Monitor, and I selected 'Export' after ensuring that my Source Monitor was selected). Under "File Format," I selected "SubRip Subtitle Format (.srt)" & didn't arrange any other settings. This worked like a charm.

I hope this helps someone else out there in my shoes!

All the best!

    B
    briand1740798
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    May 7, 2020

    Hi, running into the same problem here. Thanks for posting about this! Just had a followup question...when you were doing exporting your .scc out as .srt, did you still in essence have a .scc file that the platforms accepted? Or did you have to go through any additional steps to convert it back to .scc?

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