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The purpose of this wiki is to demonstrate how to export your title media in Avid Media Composer and re-purpose them into a valid SubRip (.srt) subtitle file used as a standard for many video media playback software.

This you tube video will help here too

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urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkM1tFu9Dc

and this 

https://gotranscript.com/subtitle-converter



The Problem: Avid Media Composer is a powerful non-linear editor which allows you to create professional audio and video content which can be exhibited via a variety of media venues.  As these venues continue to evolve digitally, new deliverables types such as DCP, H.264 MP4, and auxiliary metadata are being required from the content creator.  However, generating Avid metadata that can act as suitable subtitle information can be exhausting and time-consuming.  Often, users mistake subtitle data with open captioning data (.stl) files using the AVX SubCap Generator Effect.  Though this is extremely useful for the broadcast television and video-on-demand markets, it is not the type of file we need for video media players like VLC Media Player.  VLC Media Player is often the choice for media playback for many new festivals as it can both easily detect and playback SubRip (.srt) text files [ which essentially are compromised of two values: timecode and text. ]

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