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tonysha
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May 11, 2020
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Subtitles - Russian SRT imports

  • May 11, 2020
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Hi there

I'm trying out Premier, mainly for subtitles via SRT files. I have an SRT file that is in Russian, and when I import it, the text is not correctly displayed (whereas using MOVAVI Video converter premium, for example displays it perfectly).

 

I've done much googling, tried UTF-8 with BOM and that seems to just not display the subtitles at all. 

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

 

Also, how much can you actually do with the formatting of SRT subtitles (as opposed to manually created text overlays). There seems to be a maximum font size of 48 pixels - is this the largest it can go? Plus I can't seem any options such as "put a semi-transparent grey rectangle underneath the subtitle text" - does such a thing exist?

 

Many thanks in advance if anyone is able to answer any of these questions.

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 13, 2020

I don't see anything that should cause the problem.

 

You have an overlapping timecode. The end of the first caption is just after the beginning of the next. PR will often choke on importing srt's with such errors, and may not correctly export a sidecar if you need one.

 

Have you adjusted the position of the caption on screen? There is no indicator in the 9 box grid. I think this is a problem in PR. It used to set and hold a default (bottom middle, or whatever you used last).  I would select all the captions in the Caption Panel, and click the bottom middle box.

 

But, as I say, neither of those should result in the text size not adjusting.

 

I cannot see the name of the font you are using. I see the caption stream size; what is the sequence pixel size?

Stan

Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 11, 2020

What is your final purpose; burned in captions? Or exporting a sidecar? I assume not for traditional closed captions to be embedded in the output file.

 

How is it displaying incorrectly? There are different types of srt files in terms of whether any formatting is present, etc. As of PR CC 2019, there is an "Import Settings" button in the Captions panel, lower left. It allows you to override file specs for srt and stl imports. It includes 3 sections:

- File Settings (caption standard, pixel size, timebasde, par)

- Alignment Settings (rows, columns, anchor, text alignment, line spacing, captions area)

- Style Settings (font family, size, color etc)

 

The font size in the Caption Panel goes up to 144. (It's not pixels.) That is pretty large.

 

There are options to change the background box - color and opacity.

 

Many of the options change depending on the type of caption stream (Open Caption vs closed, etc).

 

Stan

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tonyshaAuthor
Participant
May 13, 2020

Hi Stan

 

I've made some progress with this with the translators saving in Unicode format, which Premier seems to be able to handle, whereas previously (ASCII) it could not handle (although MOVAVI was able to translate fine into Russian)

 

However, the font sizes are not doing anything at - regardless of size. As you'll see from this screen, the text is definitely to small to read, and whatever you make ths size (either in the import settings or on each individual subtitle) nothing changes.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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