Subtitles / Closed Captions

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I have a movie supplied with a range of subtitling / closed caption files and I’m wanting to export a version with these burnt in.
Is there a way of importing any of these formats into flame and getting them to behave?
I have been supplied the captions as .cap, .scc, .srt & .vtt

Any help greatly appreciated!

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srt_xml_error
srt_xml_error934×132 5.28 KB

Thanks for the script!
I have installed and run as per the instructions, but am getting this error and no xml is being generated.
It says on the bottom line that there is no such file or directory, but it is there…no idea why it’s not seeing it as there are no permissions issues.

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Hey John

That link is for a very old version of the SRT to XML script. Not sure why it was still active, but I think I’ve taken care of that now. I would delete the version you’ve installed. Install the Logik Portal from the link below and then from there install the SRT to XML script through the portal. The Portal should properly install the script for you.

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Thank you so much.
I’ll get that done now and report back!

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Worked a treat, thank you again!

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This great tool is not working for me in 2025. I have 3.5 installed and I’m getting the following error message in Terminal. Any ideas what it might be?

OSX 15.1.1

[PYTHON HOOK] An error occurred. Ignoring python hooks from /opt/Autodesk/shared/python/srt_to_xml/srt_to_xml.py

Python encountered ModuleNotFoundError(“No module named ‘PySide2’”) in unknown code

[PYTHON HOOK] An error occurred. Ignoring python hooks from /opt/Autodesk/shared/python/srt_to_xml/pyflame_lib_srt_to_xml.py

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Hasn’t the script been deprecated because of the built-in Flame tools for SRTs?

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Python (What’s New in 2025)

Support for Subtitles (What’s New in 2024.2)

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Thanks guys. I prefer having the subs as individual text layers. The AA of the srt layers is very under par, or maybe I’m missing something?

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No.

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You’re not missing anything. All it takes is for one snooty art director to say they’re “crunchy” and you need to start over again from scratch using real text layers. I used it once and got away with it, but it was a big job and really would have sucked to do over again. I use the SRT2XML all the time. I just got 2025 in the other day, so I haven’t checked it out yet.

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I am using this online subtitle generator:

Render over a black video track (with audio) then bring it back to Flame for comp on top of the actual video track. You can add shadows and/or an outline in Flame.

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Might be that you need a Pyside6 version :thinking:

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You can also do this with premier and resolve. I generally create the subtitles in premier, save as an srt, then convert to xml for use in flame. Along with the Adjust Text Effects script, revisions and style changes are easy.

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Since Autodesk came out with their SRT tools I never updated this script to work with PySide6. Although if there’s still interest in using it I’m happy to update it to work with 2025.

Mike

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@MikeV - legend, and i don’t mean ankle which would be the end of a leg.

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I’d love it.

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Another thing that would really float my leaky little life raft is if, when making adjustments using Adjust Text FX, that it remained RGBA and kept it’s order in the timeline fx.