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When I load an SRT file, the entire file is positioned at time 0, not where the time-tags indicate


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I have an Srt file with what seems to be the correct format, e.g. 

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,500
Every song should have a verse. 
                     
2
00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:09,500
So here is this one, 
                     
3
00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:14,000
for better or for worse. 
 

But when I load this, the  entire file is positioned at time 0, apparently as one huge subtitle.  I.e. the subtitles aren't positioned at "00:00:05,500" and "00:00:09,500" etc.

I've tried several MP4 files and  srt files, at this always happens.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

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Thanks for the quick response.

I think the  problem is as follows: 

1)  The SRT file I loaded is in iso-8859-1.

2)  I hand-entered a new version of the file with Notepad (or Emacs), and it  is in us-ascii.   That version loads just fine and works just fine.

So  apparently VideoPad doesn't support ISO-8859-1  (or Unicode) for SRT files.   That's bad news for me, because I'm generating the SRT files with a Sibelius plugin, and Sibelius only supports ISO-8859-1 and  utf-16le for the text files created by plugins.

Any chance of VideoPad supporting ISO-8859-1 any time soon?  Or do I have to find a different video editor.

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Here's the two srt files.  The "TRUNC LYRICS - text by hand" is us-ascii and it works, and the "TRUNC LYRICS - ISO-8859" doesn't work.

https://www.dropbox.com/preview/VideoPad/TRUNC LYRICS - ISO-8859-1.srt?role=personal

https://www.dropbox.com/preview/VideoPad/TRUNC LYRICS - TEXT by hand.srt?role=personal

Thanks,

Phil Shaw

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Was unable to access those files, but the issue isn't SRT, it's apparently unicode. The VPCopy.srt file from your earlier thread works just fine.

Submit the suggestion to NCH via https://tinyurl.com/r89tpcw

And use an easy and quick on-line tool to convert to SSA files.  Here's but one...  https://tinyurl.com/yxozcrlu

    Three steps, takes only seconds.

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Thanks for the tip of converting the SRT files.  But I decided to be tricky, and I used 4 or 5 online tools to convert my 8859 files from SRT to SRT.  They all converted to UTF-8, and all of those converted files work  just fine. 

So, I guess I just have to convince Sibelius to support UTF-8 in their output text files.  It would be rather off-putting to tell the users of a plug-in to "Take the output of this plugin and use an online tool to 'convert' it from .srt to .srt (an identity 'conversion'), yielding a UTF-8 version of the file".

Thanks again. I guess there's nothing to be done on the VideoPad side.

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  • 2 weeks later...

SRT unicode import now succeeds in release 10.12.  Retain your registration (if licensed) and installer.

For licensed users upgrades are free for up to six months from purchase date.  After that, VP will continue to fully function but a fee will be required in order to register the newest.  Retain your old install file and registration info.

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