How to Import Two-line Subtitles into Vegas?

Kim-HM wrote on 3/12/2025, 8:09 PM

Hello,

I’ve been using Vegas for a long time and it’s been great for many things, but I’m having a serious problem with subtitles.

I usually create two-line subtitles in a text file — like this:

This is the first line.  
This is the second line.  

However, when I import this text file into Vegas as subtitles, it only reads one line and completely ignores the second line.
Also, when a sentence is too long, Vegas should automatically break it into two lines, but instead, it keeps it as one long line. As a result, the text gets cut off and doesn’t fully appear on screen.

Is there any way to import two-line subtitles properly into Vegas?
Or is there a plugin, script, or workaround to solve this problem?

I really need this function because I work with long videos, and manually creating and adjusting two-line subtitles one by one takes too much time.

Any advice or solution would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Comments

RogerS wrote on 3/12/2025, 8:15 PM

Is there timecode indicating that these two lines are part of the same subtitle?

You might consider doing your subtitles in SubtitleEdit and then exporting a srt file with timecode for use in VEGAS. It's free and well featured. https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/

Kim-HM wrote on 3/12/2025, 10:13 PM

Is there timecode indicating that these two lines are part of the same subtitle?

You might consider doing your subtitles in SubtitleEdit and then exporting a srt file with timecode for use in VEGAS. It's free and well featured. https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/

Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way to make long subtitles automatically break into two lines in VEGAS?

For example, in Adobe Premiere, when a subtitle is too long to fit in one line, it automatically wraps to the next line. But in VEGAS, it seems like everything stays in one line, and if the sentence is too long, it just gets cut off instead of wrapping.

Is there a way to make VEGAS automatically split long subtitles into two or more lines so that nothing gets cut off?

Manually editing each subtitle is very time-consuming, so I'm hoping there's a more efficient way to handle this.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

RogerS wrote on 3/12/2025, 10:33 PM

Not that I'm aware of. I'd use SubtitleEdit for this.

RogerS wrote on 3/12/2025, 10:40 PM

VEGASAUR does have a max line length feature you can apply to existing events. (I imported your comment as a .txt file)

Kim-HM wrote on 3/12/2025, 11:11 PM

VEGASAUR에는 기존 이벤트에 적용할 수 있는 최대 줄 길이 기능이 있습니다. (귀하의 코멘트를 .txt 파일로 가져왔습니다)

Oh, this is exactly what I was looking for!
I tried it with Vegasaur, and it works perfectly.
It's a bit disappointing that this is a paid plugin and that VEGAS Pro doesn't have this feature built-in, but I guess I'll give it a try and consider purchasing it.
I've been asking about this for over two years, and finally, I got the answer I needed.
Thank you so much!

RogerS wrote on 3/12/2025, 11:41 PM

If you do a lot with text and subtitles as I do, Vegasaur is well worth the purchase. You can easily export subtitles, spellcheck and edit in Subtitle Edit and then import them back into VEGAS with ease. You can also quantize the subtitles to frame boundaries.