Does anyone know of an easy way to get a formatted transcript and/or timed spotting list from an srt file? I'm working on a documentary and have subtitles for most of the film (that were created in Premiere), so if there's a way to use those to create the transcript, that would save me from having to type everything out again myself.
There's various subtitle tools that might help you out converting from one format to another. Video Toolshed's 'Subbits' springs to mind. I've used that to go the other way (Transcript -> Subtitles, with it auto breaking the speech by character limit.
Although you could probably get as much by using RegEx in a text editor to strip out the subtitle numbering and excessive digits on timecode, cleaning up by hand.
Not sure the SRT would contain all the info for a transcript or spotting file though (mainly speaker names).
A much harder task than the other way around: subtitles from transcript. Searching "timed spotting list" provides services that do this, but not free products that provide this. My go to is Subtitle Edit, and it does not appear to do this.
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