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Importing .srt file, incomplete text

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
September 28, 2017
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I've got a bunch of .srt files generating by a translator into Chinese...after some struggle and learning on this forum, we figured out that the files had to be encoded in UTF-16 in order for the Chinese characters to show up in Premiere. But now, when we import the .srt, we're only getting roughly half the text. When I look at the .srt in text edit, all the text is there, including the Chinese characters. But in Premiere, it's only coming in half the length. This is reflected in the running time of the file as well. Everything is still synced properly with the video, but the words just abruptly stop about midway through. Anyone know what's going on? What the solution might be?

Thanks,

Arne

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Randy Warren

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I had the same issue. I opened up the SRT file in a text editor or note and looked at the last subtitle that showed in my Premiere timeline. The very next subtitle had an IN point that was after the OUT point, so that messed up everything after that point. If you correct that timecode, re-save the SRT file, it should import the whole thing. For reference, it looked like this. Note that 18:55 is AFTER 18:03.

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00:18:55,782 --> 00:18:03,582

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in Poland until things work out in Ukraine.

Joost van der Hoeven

Community Expert

This is user to user forum where we users help each other. The Adobe engeneers do not always read everything here. If you feel strongly about a (new)feature or (bug) fix please post it on uservoice, as it will be read by the engeneers.
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

Westy HJ

Participating Frequently

I had the exact same issue, the Chinese turned into too many lines/characters for Premiere to handle.
I manually changed the text file so the .srt was split when there was more than two lines of characters.
This did the job for me.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Some users have found this issue if there is a flaw in the .srt file I think at the point the text stops.

nicoh19361448

Participant

That was exactly it! Three of the in and out points had exactly the same timecode so I changed them that all of the subs had some time to shine.

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Omar

Participant

On top of ALL the other subtitle problems I am having (TONS OF WORK LOST BECAUSE OF SUBTITLE BUGS!!!!!!!!!!! (Rant) ), I am now having THIS problem too.

Absolutely unbelievable. Adobe, you're QA and/or product owners are pathetic. I am not even going to waste time ranting anymore. I will say this though, I will NEVER in my life be touching Premiere Pro for any of my professional video work again. Ever.

wictore46717306

Participant

I have the same problem, I still can not solve.

Wictor

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Chad Stuart

Participant

Could you please reference where you learned the file needed to be encoded UTF-16?

MissionPictures wrote
...after some struggle and learning on this forum, we figured out that the files had to be encoded in UTF-16 in order for the Chinese characters to show up in Premiere. ...

I would like to document this for a research project I am on.

Thank you,

Chad Stuart

jose_zip

Participant

Hello,

In this link you can browse and find all Unicode list of characters: https://unicode-table.com/en/47D0/

wictore46717306

Participant

Well, my problem is just that, the import goes incomplete.

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