How to import & style captions subtitles SRT in Premiere Pro

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Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
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• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to import an SRT file that has been created by your subtitler or your subtitling service, or maybe automatically generated somewhere. I'll show you how to bring them in, we're going to do two versions. We'll do English subtitles as well as Hindi ones, and as a bonus I'll show you how to find different languages, when it does come to foreign closed captioning. All right, let's jump in. 

All right, we've got some exercise files, in your 'Exercise Files', go to 'Subtitles', bring in your-- there's one called 'XD Intro.mp4', bring that in, and what we're going to do is, if you haven't already switched to your captioning workspace, we're going to import captions from file. We'll start with this English one here. So when I'm doing work, we get our English subtitles done by Larry, Larry's our subtitler, and he often does a Hindi one as well. So we'll show you how to bring in both of those. 

The file often used is an SRT, there are other files, that file there is created by subtitling software. So we're going to import it, and everything by the default works great. The only thing you might change is, if you've got a pre-made style, let's click 'OK', you can see, there's all the captions that get done. The video is a lot longer, and I've left all the captions in there. I've cut down the video just for file size in this course, but let's have a look. 

Let's start playing and see if they match up. "Hi there, my name is…" Hey, his name is Dan. "Adobe Certified Instructor, now together…" There you go. You can see, instead of creating them manually, well they've been created, mainly by somebody else, and these are all the captions. If you want to import another one, let's say we're doing another language, it's kind of weird, like I couldn't figure it out for a long time, because you can't get back to that Import, it's not in here, it might be in there now though, they're changing this captioning workflow a lot lately. I know there's lots of updates in the future coming, so there might be an easier option here. 

It says import again, at the moment what I have to do, is kind of import it manually, so bring it down here, so I'll bring in my Hindi ones, and what you can do is, over here, you can right click 'Add Another Track' to the subtitles. I'm going to leave it all normal. You can have two sets of subtitles, and all you need to do is drag it in, and mine kind of match up with the last one. 

So I'm just going to get them to try and match up. How well does that work? Yeah, worked good. So now I got two, you can only have one on at a time, you see this, if I turn the eyeball off on this one, you see, they kind of toggle each other, because you can only have one set on the moment at a time, That might change as well. 

The one thing with the second set, especially if it's in another language, and you don't have, like at the moment, it's trying to use Helvetica to display this, and it's the wrong language, you can see, it displayed properly over here. So you need to find a font that works, you might have one on your, you know, your computer already, you just select it from your fonts, if you don't, go to 'Add Adobe Fonts', it'll open up the website, and along the top here there's 'Languages and Writing Systems'. You might find it in here, well, you will hopefully, hopefully there's a font in the language that you need. Our one is Devanagari, and these are the fonts that's going to give us the right words. Now I need to double check all of this, because I don't speak that language, and I need to have Larry double check things for us. 

So let's-- you know, I've got this font installed, a really common one for those characters, but yeah, you can click on them and activate them, and they will load into Premiere Pro, I'm just going to give it a second. So this is this one, Devanagari, I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it, but let's do it, let's go Devanagari. Actually, there's a bunch of ones already built into this machine, I'm going to use the Adobe one, and in our case as well we want to do it for each of them, so we're going to create a style, so this first one, we're going to get it how we want.

So we want the Bold one? We've only got Bold, size wise, especially if we're going to burn it in for social media, It might have to be bigger, go for the background, and up here where it says Track Style, we're going to go 'Create New Style', click 'OK', and by default it normally kind of applies itself, all the way along, for some reason, I don't know why. It's helpful, it's done the whole track style, you don't have to apply it, it's not per subtitle, there you go. So that's two different languages. 

All right, that's how to import SRTs, we've done two different tracks, I'm going to now show you how to export them in the next video.

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