txt extension in the required format for import to Avid SubCap tool. ** End of Subtitle Workshop - Custom format ** Placed once at the end of the file !* Then paste this code into the template This file written with the Avid Caption plugin, version 1 ** Placed once at the beginning of the file !* txt, select Time, change Structure to 'hh:mm:ss:00' and update FPS to proper rate. Once you have the caption data setup in Subtitle Workshop, File-Save As-Custom FormatĬhange the extension to. If you use Subtitle Workshop (awesome free program providing easy GUI for caption/subtitle editing), you can create a custom exporter that will import to the SubCap tool in Avid. I aplogize for resurrecting an old post, but I wanted to save my findings for posterity I tried it with the TC track also selected.Īny other troubleshooting ideas? I am going to try dividing the file into smaller pieces and see if there is some other error I have missed. I tried it with a mark in and out of the section where the subtitles would be. I tried this with only that video track selected.

import captions doc (and it showed up as an available file with x number of captions to import) create or apply a stylesheet and synchronize add SubCap generator effect to a blank video track Is there a particular format that the txt should be in (i.e.

I don't know if the txt doc was buggy for some reason. I was able to get some captions inserted at one point earlier but could not make it happen again. However, once I got the number of captions to be inserted closer to the total number (and it indicated this in red type in the Import Captions window), it did not work. I did the pull out the window and could see how many were 'before' the beginning of timeline and figured out that it was a spacing issue (I had 2 spaces between the two timecode numbers and when I removed those extra spaces, most of the captions were available). I sort of figured that out (re: the plug in name), I was able to get some captions imported at one point before I corrected the whole document.

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