So I’m betting there is a more efficient way to go about this, but I had a job coming up where I need to add subtitles to 11 spots in all aspect ratios. (including a separate version for tiktok). I had my producer instruct editorial who was going to build references for the subtitles to do it in Premiere and basically give me a toolkit, because why the heck would I want them to just send refs when they already built them. My plan is to export 4444s and add them to my sequence in flame, Then I got to thinking, could I adapt what UC Slater does with adding slates to the front of my sequence to adding my subtitles on a new track above my sequence. I’m just not sure how to execute it, chatGPT just keeps giving me generic python scripts no matter how many times I send it Autodesk’s Python guide.
You could definitely repurpose UC Slater to add a subtitle track instead of slates. You’ll have to adjust the timecodes. For instance, tc_OUT = flame.PyTime("00:59:58:00", frameRate) might become seq_tc = flame.PyTime("01:00:00:00", frameRate)
And then add:
flame.execute_shortcut("Set Focus on Top Visible Track") flame.execute_shortcut("New Video Track")
under item.open().
Then you should probably comment out item.name = str(slateName)[1:-1] so it doesn’t change the name of your sequences. Obviously, you’d have to put the subtitles and sequences in the same order.
If you’re on 2024 or later you have the subtitles track that allows you to import SRT files. Has worked very well for me.
Oh awesome thank you! That’s what I was trying to play around with but I just don’t know python very well. Thank you so much!
Yeah, I had a feeling there was a less complicated solution to this now haha. I’ll try the SRTs and hope for the best.
Gotcha. You can try this: uc_subtitler.zip (30.4 KB)
I added some comments that help explain what the main part of the script is doing, which is really just executing shortcuts.
thank you so much, thats way more than I expected. I really appreciate the help.