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Best "subtitle" plugin/script for Premiere?

Joel Arvidsson

Joel Arvidsson

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Im looking for the best subtitle plugin for premiere 2014. The built in "closed captioning" is to limited for my needs. I like to be able to choose different fonts and look of the text and most time i just want to "burn in the text" in the video.

The closet to what i looking for is the http://www.sugarfx.tv/info/subtitles_SUGARfx.html but its mac only.
Is there anyhing thats similar or perhaps better for pc?
 
I also wonder wich is your favorite way to automate some thing like this: Say you have 10 movies with around 40 subs in each. Than you dont want to add the text "manually". Especially when it can be a changes on wich font, scale and position. You want this automated for sure, so you can change all the instances from one place. Im thinking you could perhaps use the "Live text templates" but there must be better ways.
 
What you are describing sounds more like a special effect; have you considered After Effects? Various ways you could attack your problem when combining Premiere and Ae.

Bob
 
David can you run the Zeitanker's Annotation edit inside premiere? Looks like its leaning more to fpcx.
 
It is a standalone program.

You do subtitles once and then export to DVD, DCP, FCP or premiere because the software generates png files with alpha and a perfect edl or xml to import and lay on top.

If if you have to do multiple languages you just duplicate your master language and do all of your translated films.

Ive done 3 films with it now. If you export an audio movie with dialog only then it will even break everything up based on your audio waveforms.

It's, by a mile imho the best tools available.

You don't know how great it is until you use it.

Battistella
 
Joel Arvidsson said:
Im looking for the best subtitle plugin for premiere 2014. The built in "closed captioning" is to limited for my needs. I like to be able to choose different fonts and look of the text and most time i just want to "burn in the text" in the video.

The closet to what i looking for is the http://www.sugarfx.tv/info/subtitles_SUGARfx.html but its mac only.
Is there anyhing thats similar or perhaps better for pc?
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Hi Joel,
Keep in mind that closed captions and subtitles are two different things. There is no native way to create subtitles from closed captions at this time. Subtitles are created via the Titler, but it is very labor intensive. Feel free to file a feature request here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

I hope you can find a third party tool that would suit your needs.

There is also a workflow with InDesign you may find useful:


Thanks,
Kevin
 
Any new sub-titles plugin for pc 2015? Seams mac gets the best options.

I wish adobe would step up and give us a tool for subtitles. The current closed captions is useless to me. I need control over the look and placement of the subs. Also autogeneration of subtitles using speech recorgnition would be cool. Or atleast if you could paste in your text and then use speech recognition to sync the subtitles.
 
Bérenger Brillante said:
Premiere I can't tell, but After Effects has a script.

SRT subtitle Import for AE by August Bering.
Just do the subtitle with SubtitleEdit and then import it in AE. very easy.
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Here is the link to August Berings script but I cant get it to import correct in ae. It founds error in the script it complains.
http://scientificswede.blogspot.se/2012/07/importing-srt-subtitles-in-after-effects.html

Here is another alternative, but I don't know how it stacks up against August version.
http://www.908video.de/lab_post/after-effects-plugin-to-import-subtitles-on-github/
 
What programs is your external favorit program to make your srt?
 
I have looked around and Im fine using Subtitle Edit to create the srt files. Then it looks ok in vlc and mpc -hc player as long as you tweak some settings like size (defult is around 20% to large).
I was glad that premiere could import srt with no plugins but it does not align automatically. Its not a big problem since its just that the srt file was shorter in lengt than the original clip. But I only have to synch it at start to get everything in synch. But premiere don't give me the control to edit font size, etc. And premiere does not either care about my line brakes from subtitle edit. So the subtitles looks like crap in premiere. Its the same problem if I use an scc file instead of a srt.

Any good suggestions would be warm welcome!
 
http://www.telestream.net/captioning/overview.htm

I have grown through many iterations of creating captions and subtitles, mostly for corporate training videos, starting from doing it all manually in FCP 7 with markers and excel spreadsheets, and slowly tweaked and streamlined my workflow over the past 6 years. Then I found MacCaption, and all my spreadsheets, macros, and custom workflows went out the window. I have been using it for the past 3 years, and while quirky, it works. No more copying and pasting, drag your script in and it will break it up into caption segments depending on your specs for words per line and lines per screen. Then watch the video and time the caption on/off TC's with standard IN/OUT shortcuts. Then export anything you want, uncluding subtitle/caption files for youtube, DVD, soft titles for quicktime, or burned in subs.

One bit of advice on burned in subs, for video export type, choose the same codec that your original movie is in. Don' let the software convert the video, takes FOREVER.

I bought this before it was bought by tele stream, and was much cheaper. But, tele stream has made it a better program, and much more stable. If you are looking at doing a lot of captioning like I was doing, this is the way to go.

They have a PC version as well.
 
Thanks Matt for your advice.

I just installed a demo of the EZTITLES to premiere and I must say I like the combo "Subtitle edit+EZtitles"

Im done with working with subtitles inside of after effect and similar workflows too. I bet the telestream is better than subtitle edit but so far Im only using 2% or its feature. I think I check telestream when its time to step up!
 
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