The purpose of this wiki is to demonstrate how to export your title media in Avid Media Composer and re-purpose them into a valid SubRip (.srt) subtitle file used as a standard for many video media playback software.
The Problem: Avid Media Composer is a powerful non-linear editor which allows you to create professional audio and video content which is exhibited via a variety of media venues. As these venues continue to evolve digitally, new deliverables types such as DCP, H.264, and metadata are being required from the content creator. However, generating Avid metadata that can act as subtitle information can be exhausting and time-consuming. Often, users mistake subtitle data with open captioning data (.stl) files using the SubCap Effect. Though this is extremely useful for the television broadcast market, it is not the type of file we need for video media players like VLC Media Player. VLC can detect and playback SubRip text files which essentially are compromised of two values: timecode and text.
The Solution: In just a few simple steps, we can step out of the Media Composer and use the scripting abilities in Adobe After Effects to generate a perfectly timecoded SubRip (.srt) file.
Disclaimer: You will need to utilize several sets of tools to achieve this workflow. The Moody College of Communication has already pre-installed these in many of our digital media labs. However, if working elsewhere, you will need to have administrative access in order to complete the steps in this wiki.
We will need the following:
- Avid Media Composer (version 7 and up)
- Avid Media Composer - a locked, completed Master Sequence with all rendered VIDEO and EFFECTS on Track V1 and all TITLE MEDIA on Track V2. AUDIO is typically a Dolby Stereo LtRt Downmix on Tracks A1 and A2. Don't forget to PAN those MONO audio tracks to LR!!
- Adobe After Effects (version 5.0 and up) - Click here to sign-up for a limited free trial version of Adobe Creative Cloud which includes After Effects CC
- A copy of the Text Generating AE Script - Click here to download the script
- The latest version of the VideoLAN VLC Media Player for your operating system
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