When I click on Insert-subs from a file nothing happens!

Normally when I click insert-subs from a file, a dialog pops up to pick the text file for subs.

Last week this worked perfectly.

Now nothing!

I looked behind the screen alt-tab and there is no other dialog open!

@Michael-Glasser Cannot confirm, works like a charm with srt.files:

The file may not be properly formatted. Can you post the start of the text?

Quando você clica em Inserir legendas de um arquivo, nada acontece!

Normalmente, quando você clica em "Inserir legendas de um arquivo", uma caixa de diálogo aparece para selecionar o arquivo de texto para as legendas.

Na semana passada, isso funcionou perfeitamente.

Agora nada!

Olhei atrás da tela usando Alt+Tab e não há outra caixa de diálogo aberta!

Try inserting the SRT subtitle ALWAYS in the "default" preset; this way I've never had "formatting error" problems or any other errors again.
Most of the time when I try to insert SRT subtitles with other presets I've created, it also shows an error in Vegas 22.


Just apply the preset you prefer, then with the caption already on the timeline... then change and apply the desired template with the "apply all attributes..." button.

I have a similar issue. When I browse to the folder and click the file to be imported, it does not insert the file but prompts the "select folder" icon again...

@Rudi-Niessen Your srt.file looks quite strange, the length of the subtitles are extremely short. just 33 ms. That's 1 frame in a 25fps videofile. I can imagine that your srt.file isn't accepted.

@3point.. thx for replying. The srt file is generated by the DJI drone.

@3point.. thx for replying. The srt file is generated by the DJI drone.

Yes, I can see that, but I also see that it's not a usual subtitle file. That's probably the reason that it not can be imported into Vegas.

@Rudi-Niessen  Good luck with that. Those are DJI telemetry files, and I haven't found any NLE that will properly injest them.

Much like DLOG-M, it is proprietary and undocumented.

There are (expensive) third-party apps that will convert them into graphical dashboards, or others for conversion, but I have never used them.

Oddy though, VLC will show them as an overlay, but the format is really intrusive.

The only solution might be to convert/cleanup the srt files. I've used a Notepad++ macro to extract speed and altitude, offset, and remove the other noise -- and fix the formatting.

Personally, I have given up as the work vs. value ratio is not worth it.

Thx for explaination. Seems to let it go...

Thx for explaination. Seems to let it go...

I also reported this to Magix, up to now no response yet.

@Rudi-Niessen As I showed above, there's no issue importing a "regular" srt.file into Vegas, so it's probably the specific type of srt.file generated by your DJI Drone.

When I Google:

Key Information About DJI SRT Files:

Data Included: Records frame numbers, time/date, GPS coordinates (longitude/latitude), relative altitude, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, and exposure value.

Usage: Used as subtitles in video players (e.g., VLC) to show data, or in post-processing tools like DJI Telemetry Overlay to create gauges and maps.

Generation: They are created alongside the video files (.MP4 or .MOV) if the "Subtitle" or "Video Captions" option is enabled in the DJI Fly/Go app settings.

Compatibility: While many drones generate a separate .SRT file, others (e.g., Mini 2, Phantom 4 Pro) embed this data directly into the video file.

Storage: They are small text files, usually found on the SD card in the same folder as your videos. 

If you do not need to analyze your flight path, these files can be deleted without affecting the video quality. 

Yeah -- I've been barking up that tree for years. I still think it is nice-to-have.

I google for it occasionally, but maybe one day I might try writing some VBA or some such to reformat them. For now I open it it in notepad and copy/paste random lines; I dont need every second or every frame.

BTW, if you want to analyze your flight data, there's DJI SRT Flight Data Viewer. Perhaps one of the export formats might get it close.

In the meantime, if I can just figure out the telemetry from Trumpf lasers ... 😀

When I re-read the srt.file from @Michael-Glasser, the DJI Drone generates for every recorded videoframe a separate subtitle, so each videoframe has his own subtitle. Means a drone videoclip at 25fps of let's say 10 minutes has 10x60x25=15000 frames/subtitles. I can imagine that Vegas can't generate 15000 separate Title&Text events.

I meant of course the srt.file from @Rudi-Niessen

I tried with a self made srt file (see attachement), same result.

No error message, no warning, nope... and still no news from Magix support ....

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I tried with a self made srt file (see attachement), same result.

No error message, no warning, nope... and still no news from Magix support ....

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@Rudi-Niessen The problem is that this native feature doesn't support multi-line SRT files, it's that simple...

I've implemented the features for importing SRT, LRC and TXT files in my free extension UltraPaste. It should support multi-line SRT files. If you want to give it a try, you can take a look at: https://zzzzzz9125.github.io/VegTips/ultrapaste

I'm currently working on UltraPaste v1.4.0. It will be a major update and it might come out in one or two months, depending on when I finish it.

I tried with a self made srt file (see attachement), same result.

No error message, no warning, nope... and still no news from Magix support ....

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The selfmade srt has the same strange length of just ONE frame for each subtitle, how should Vegas import that on its timeline?

(Forget about Magix support....)

THE INSERT SUBS FROM .TEX.FILE WORKED UP UNTIL THE LAST UPDATE. I have been a vegas user since release one and this is my first issue that MAGIX has not give an answer to, Using an SRT file should not

be necessary if INSERT Subtitles from a txt file worked.... It used to work!

I can't believe that a company that sells PROFESSIONAL VIDEO PRODUCTION SOFTWARE does not answer support issues A.S.A.P. since pros need their software to work to finalize their work!

By the way YouTube will add subs that you can download once published,

THE INSERT SUBS FROM .TEX.FILE WORKED UP UNTIL THE LAST UPDATE. I have been a vegas user since release one and this is my first issue that MAGIX has not give an answer to, Using an SRT file should not

 

be necessary if INSERT Subtitles from a txt file worked.... It used to work!

I can't believe that a company that sells PROFESSIONAL VIDEO PRODUCTION SOFTWARE does not answer support issues A.S.A.P. since pros need their software to work to finalize their work!

 

I'm not a pro, but I have no issue importing a txt file into VP23:

I did not until last VP23 pro update!