The Blue Markers are Closed Caption, not subtitles. You have to use a plugin like Vegasaur to convert SRT to Subtitles.

It won't help either but Vegas Pro 16 offers an option to insert SRT files as text events.

Marco, that is good to know. I don't have 16.

Thanks guys, I do have purchased 16 but havent used it since it seemed to be crashhappy I think after I installed it back then....maybe it's better now?

I have the latest version of Vegas 16 (ver #424) and a few days ago tried an SRT import for the first time to make a subtitle burn in version. ..Worked perfectly!

It appears if you wanted to move the position of a given text, it should be possible as Vegas appears to generate each text as it's own entity. If you needed to do a global change, then the track effects option might be the most efficient way to go.

Hi greg,

I can't see any difference between Vegas 15 and 16 , it still puts the blue closed caption stuff in and not subtitle events when I go to "import, closed captioning" . How do you import the SRT as text events then?

Marcel

See menu "Insert/Add subtitle from File".

See menu "Insert/Add subtitle from File".

Yeah I found that, but my SRT files are not visible there, it only expects TXT, and when I rename it to TXT, the outcome is totally wrong, the text in the timeline is about 3 times as long in time than the actual movie is, and there is also timing information in the text...

So I have the impression that Vegas doesnt expect a normal SRT file at all in this import?

Strange, I just tested it with regular SRT files and it worked fine.

This is a sample content of a SRT file:

1
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000
hello

2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000
world

And this is how VP16 handles it:

Vegasaur still remains the best and most complete tool for this job. Vegas Pro 16 has this feature natively but is still limited in certain aspects. I have always used Vegasaur for this kind of work here and it has always worked super well.

Strange, I just tested it with regular SRT files and it worked fine.

This is a sample content of a SRT file:

1
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000
hello

2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000
world

And this is how VP16 handles it:

Hmmm, I guess I'm gonna have to update my Vegas 16 to the latest build maybe?

Should be build 424.

I did it just as Marco noted a couple of posts under mine and it worked fine. (Vegas 16 version #424)

Can I create and export .SRT file from Vegas 16?

Here is my way of adding subtitles (or surtitles) to Vegas and it works perfectly:

1. Render your video for Architect

2. Import your subtitle text to Architect (xls, doc...)

3. Edit the subtitles in the subtitle track - precisely place the text on the time line (same as preparing subtitles for DVD or blueray)

4. Once done, export the the subtitle text to a .sub file.

5. Import the .sub file to Vegas: File-Import-Close Captioning (into your project -or to a new Vegas project )

6. After importing, blue vertical lines appear where the text is (you can do additional editing here.)

7. Once done, go to Tools-Scripting-Export Close Captioning for YouTube - the resulting file is a .srt format file

8. Render a video on a separate track in pure green or blue or any other suitable color for later use with Chroma FX. (I used a .jpg green picture prepared in a photo editing program.) The beginning, ending and length must exactly march your project video.

9. In HandBreak (free program) import your green/blue... video and your .srt file you created.

10. Create a .mp4 subtitle video

11, In your project insert the .mp4 subtitle video file onto the top track (above all your previously set tracks)

12. Set Chroma FX. Adjust the size, and positions of your text via Pan/Crop.

14. Render your video.

15. DONE! (I created surtitles for an opera video. The timing of the surtitles was impeccable. Text was crisp white. However, I assume with a proper manipulation of the subtitle video desired text color can be achieved. I am not sure how to change the font (but i was not concerned with that aspect of the video.)