Ability to search subtitles

I'm working a lot subtitling feature films in various languages. Sometimes the translations have to be adjusted after the initial .srt file has already been imported and various typographic adjustments made. It would be really helpful if I could search within the subtitles for a specific text. Is this already there? Sorry if i missed it. I've done a few searches and couldn't find an explanation as to how to do that.

Here are some kudos: I had a project almost 2 hours long, Premiere Pro would only import part of the 1000+ subtitles and would get the time code and synch wrong. And I have been doing this kind of thing in Premiere for several years. After beating my head against the wall for about an hour and realizing it wasn't me, I booted up Resolve. Studio. Davinci Resolve Studio handled it beautifully, though it took a bit of time to figure just exactly how to get the .srt file onto the timeline. It's not quite so obvious as the manual states.

It would be really helpful if I could search within the subtitles for a specific text. Is this already there? Sorry if i missed it. I've done a few searches and couldn't find an explanation as to how to do that.

I only have a little experience using subtitles in Resolve but I don't think there is a feature to search for subtitles (or ADR cues for that matter) and there should be.

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Yes!

I currently have to cross-reference an outside SRT application with Resolve to find the spot where something was said as I am cutting interviews into documentary footage, and it is a laborious process. The ability to search for words in the subtitles and quickly identify their location in the timeline would be amazing. As it is now, I also have to reference a master, unedited interview because if I do any editing, the timecodes will change relative to the SRT I'm; referencing against. So I have to use an app to locate the phrase within the SRT, reference that timecode in the original, full interview timeline, and then mark it there to see it reflected in the edited interview or go hunting for it manually.

If I could search within the subtitles, I could edit as I like within a timeline and use the search to get to the parts I want to work with. This would be so much faster!!!

Consider this my +1!!

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I'm working a lot subtitling feature films in various languages. Sometimes the translations have to be adjusted after the initial .srt file has already been imported and various typographic adjustments made. It would be really helpful if I could search within the subtitles for a specific text. Is this already there? Sorry if i missed it. I've done a few searches and couldn't find an explanation as to how to do that.

Here are some kudos: I had a project almost 2 hours long, Premiere Pro would only import part of the 1000+ subtitles and would get the time code and synch wrong. And I have been doing this kind of thing in Premiere for several years. After beating my head against the wall for about an hour and realizing it wasn't me, I booted up Resolve. Studio. Davinci Resolve Studio handled it beautifully, though it took a bit of time to figure just exactly how to get the .srt file onto the timeline. It's not quite so obvious as the manual states.

I WANT THAT TOO!

And what could be nice too would be to be able to make an "automatic" cute around a particular word or phrase.

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For the fastest navigate, this should not be a search a la "Ctrl-F, type, Enter, Next... Next... Next", but a "Search on type" with simultaneous filtering of blocks of text where the substring is found.

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A search feature would be really nice!

Currently, we basically use @vincentlepes method stated above and it involves lots of ALT+TABs between the app where we have the transcriptions and Resolve.

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Yes, ability to find & replace in subtitles would be great! Also, in my case, keyboard shortcut for adding new subtitles doesn't work...

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I would like to be able to search not only subtitle tracks but also any markers and filenames.
Basically a find panel where you can filter and show and click or cursor through all the matches in your entire library.

Also, would be nice if the mechanism for entering/updating subtitles while playing/pausing the video could be completely handled via the keyboard.

As I am new, I am finding that while I can use subtitles for taking notes on each timeline, it's actually a lot easier to open the media in media view and watch it at 2-4x speed while using hotkeys to add markers instead of subtitles.

The markers allow three fields + time and duration, which is a bit nicer than subtitles.
And I'm sure we can export and convert markers into subtitles either with a script or another tool...

So, my workflow is now:
Drag media into a project.
Go to the media tab.
Watch the videos using space and L to adjust the speed
Hitting Ctrl+M to add and edit a marker in one action.
Adding Keywords (I use hashtags), Name and Notes

Inside the master view that appears at the bottom, the videos contain a list of markers that can be opened and searched.

I right click on the Fields and add Keyword and Comments which allow me to display Keywords and Notes, respectively.

The markers are really nice.
I'm still confused a bit about why the markers added to a timeline don't have the same functionality as markers added to clips in the media storage, and I see some weird behavior with adding markers to tracks such as audio/video (where they appear twice in the Edit Index) and adding them to the timeline or the subtitle tracks, where they don't appear anywhere...

But since I'm only using the tool for studying videos and tagging important information, all I really need is the first tab. The other tabs (cut, edit, fusion, color, fairlight, and deliver) I think I can ignore for my needs for now.

Thank you. Problem solved for me at least.... This gives me a great video database that I can use to quickly find important information without having to search subtitle files and then open videos as I was doing before with InqScribe and Subtitle Edit.

NOTE: It would be amazing if the Markers dialog box would be docked or at least not prevent the video from playing while I type inside it.

CORRECTION: The marker dialog works great. I just needed to map a different key than spacebar to the play/pause. By doing this, I can leave the dialog up and type while the video is playing. A few more hotkeys that do not interfere with text entry and I can move the video and type subtitles or notes over a small duration and set the marker start and end points. Beautiful. Even better, there is no need to click done in the dialog. It saves automatically. And you can start a new marker with Ctrl+M even if you are still in a previous one. Automatic save of the old one and the new one pops up. Super fast workflow. Superb work... I just had to adjust my thoughts to those of the developers and they did this quite nicely I think.

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Gosh,

that would be so easy to implement.
There is an "Edit Index" List that just needs to include subtitles.
Done.

AND:
PLEASE FIX THOSE DAMN MARKERS!!!!!

Example If you are working on a timeline and want so mark something on the timeline, because you are using it inside another timeline... You Can't!

If you want to set markers on clips while editing and see those markers anywhere else. Nope.

You are pulling a long recording (seminar, lecture, interview) into a timeline and start marking and cutting simultaneously (because that's perfectly possible). And then you want to see normal markers and duration markers in the Media Pool. Computer says NO...

Just this behaviour of markers cost me HOURS of additional (unpaid, of course) work.
I sometimes use Google docs to write down notes, because you will never know..

That can't be the way it is meant to be. Blackmagic, i highly appreciate the cool features, effects, codecs, Fusion, etc.... But, PLEASE, can you create maybe a new branch of Resolve that, feature wise, stays were it is, and just finish the things that are not finished.

Thank You! --RANT END--

Gosh,

that would be so easy to implement.
There is an "Edit Index" List that just needs to include subtitles.
Done.

AND:
PLEASE FIX THOSE DAMN MARKERS!!!!!

Example If you are working on a timeline and want so mark something on the timeline, because you are using it inside another timeline... You Can't!

If you want to set markers on clips while editing and see those markers anywhere else. Nope.

You are pulling a long recording (seminar, lecture, interview) into a timeline and start marking and cutting simultaneously (because that's perfectly possible). And then you want to see normal markers and duration markers in the Media Pool. Computer says NO...

Just this behaviour of markers cost me HOURS of additional (unpaid, of course) work.
I sometimes use Google docs to write down notes, because you will never know..

That can't be the way it is meant to be. Blackmagic, i highly appreciate the cool features, effects, codecs, Fusion, etc.... But, PLEASE, can you create maybe a new branch of Resolve that, feature wise, stays were it is, and just finish the things that are not finished.

Thank You! --RANT END--

+100 to all of this!

Edit index for subtitles so to search is a must!

PLEASE FIX THOSE DAMN MARKERS!!!!!

I feel your pain, it's a maddening oversight that pretty much renders markers useless. I've given up using them on anything bar timelines or the occasional tricky sync.

Markers need to be accessible from pretty much every window on every page.

Oh and let us pick our own colours and name defaults, Premiere has been doing this for ages.

i would appreciate the caption search function as well. one of the most useful functions of premiere at the moment and its auto captioning. I actually just auto captioned and imported premiere srt into resolve and just realized i cant search through them. If you want a way to stand above premiere a beautiful feature would be to turn captions into markers on tracks. you could search it that way and also it will stay there while you edit. currently i need to constantly be aware of the subtitles so i dont get them off sync while editing.

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As a workaround if they don't add Subtitles to the Edit Index, it's possible to create a script in Resolve for subtitle search. The problem is there's currently no way to navigate to the subtitle clip when it's been found.

I made a request for adding the functions that would make it possible here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=145831

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I can't test it now with the new 17.4, does anyone knows if it was implemented? I would love to have that

I can't test it now with the new 17.4, does anyone knows if it was implemented? I would love to have that

Lots of great work in 17.4 ... but no, sadly it seems the ability to search text in the subtitle tracks didn't make the cut yet... and still no ability to save/import/export Track / Caption Style presets.

Sadly, in 17.4 it also seems they've removed previous support for fixed width backgrounds (for subtitles)... which means a s**t load more work for me now, having to create and manually manage separate video tracks for subtitle background burn ins. Ho hum. Two steps forward but one step back.

I can't test it now with the new 17.4, does anyone knows if it was implemented? I would love to have that

Lots of great work in 17.4 ... but no, sadly it seems the ability to search text in the subtitle tracks didn't make the cut yet... and still no ability to save/import/export Track / Caption Style presets.

Sadly, in 17.4 it also seems they've removed previous support for fixed width backgrounds (for subtitles)... which means a s**t load more work for me now, having to create and manually manage separate video tracks for subtitle background burn ins. Ho hum. Two steps forward but one step back.

Mmm, so not easier work for me too. I often have to cut videos based on the subtitles.

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The ability to search subtitle texts would make my work faster.

I tried to export a subtitle track, convert it to edl with https://editingtools.io/subtitles/ and import markers from the edl file.

I found out that Resolve does not import markers correctly. The comments are missing.

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I would like to be able to search not only subtitle tracks but also any markers and filenames.
Basically a find panel where you can filter and show and click or cursor through all the matches in your entire library.

You can search for markers and filenames in the Edit Index panel FYI.

But +1 on subtitle search FOR SURE.

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Marker behaviour is all over the place, not possible to get markers from one timeline into another or copy markers from timelines to clips to keep them in a new edit without cumbersome workarounds.

I find a way!!!

Ok so it's April 14 2022 and i was looking for a way of finding spoken words inside my timeline and after reading a lot of forums i think i've just find a workaround to do this, without using external paid apps or services. (sorry if my english is not correct). You can convert the ST layer to EDL marker timeline using editingtools.io. If you have the subs inside Resolve, just go to export, subtitle and export an srt file. Then go to aditingtools.io and convert that file to an Davinci Resolve EDL. go back to resolve, click your timeline in the media pool, right click, import, timeline Markers from EDL, and boom. You may havo to do some adjustments, but it works fine. For word searching, just open the index edit tab, click the 3 dots, select show markers, all and select notes for viewing.

If you find another way for doing this, let me know

Are subtitles now searchable in Resolve 18 ?

I cannot upgrade yet.

Are subtitles now searchable in Resolve 18 ? I cannot upgrade yet.

Nope. There has been some work done in v18b1 with the subtitling functionality, but as yet, still not searchable, still no find and replace (and still no capacity to export/import caption style settings.)

For whatever it's worth I would like to add my +1

Since we make our videos (in Indonesia) for western audiences we always develop subtitles and a search / replace text would be very very useful.

As an experiment I just tried to save the timeline (.DRT) and open it in text edit to see if I could find and replace the 30 incorrectly used times we need to replace the word across the 10 minute video, but it was unsuccessful.

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As an experiment I just tried to save the timeline (.DRT) and open it in text edit to see if I could find and replace the 30 incorrectly used times we need to replace the word across the 10 minute video, but it was unsuccessful.

You could export your subtitle track to an .srt, open it in a subtitle editor or text edit and re-import it to resolve. A bit tedious, but it works.

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Additionally, the edit box for the subtitle is quite small, and the font size is also (and fixed). On a high-resolution display, it is hard to edit the text. Would be nice if the edit box could be resized and/or the font in that box selectable. This probably is related to the whole GUI scaling in general, but that is another discussion...

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I just found this post here and think that DaVinci Resolve Studio has a lot of potential here. If there's one thing I still miss in DaVinci Resolve Studio coming from Premiere Pro, then it's this as well as a Speech to Text feature.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post external links here, but you can learn more about how Premiere Pro handles this feature over here https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/us ... -text.html and to be honest, it's quite amazing and something I'd love to see integrated natively in DaVinci Resolve!

This would speed up the editing process for many Resolve users out there for sure! Perhaps this is something, we will see in version 19, who knows?

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I have dozens and dozens of video with subtitles (that have the same names as the video files).
I would like to be able to search in them too, and get directly to the timestamp of the videos.

BM can't imagine how much time it would save me! Same for others who needs to search anything in their subtitle files.

It could change (for the better) the workflow of thousands of people. I use Descript too sometimes to have a transcript of videos. We can edit the video directly by removing words (or adding words too, with "AI" audio).

But i mostly use it to get a subtitle file I can use in Resolve.

An extra feature associated to it would be :"virtual" cuts (with an option to show/hide them) when a video file has a.vtt,.srt,etc. using the same name. It would be like Descript, but not exactly like it, where we would still have to make the "real" cut ourselves.

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