The short version
From source file to finished timeline in five steps
Already familiar with Premiere tracks and MOGRTs? This is the complete workflow at a glance.
- 01Prepare an empty output track
Keep every planned subtitle range clear. The plugin never creates tracks and never overwrites existing clips.
- 02Open Text-to-MOGRT
In Premiere, go to Window → UXP Plugins → Text-to-MOGRT.
- 03Choose timing and a MOGRT
Use timeline timing tracks for DOCX/TXT, or cue timecodes for SRT/VTT. Read the timeline style and connect the matching original .mogrt file.
- 04Preview the batch
Check the planned clip count, source, timing, wrapping, warnings, and output track. Preview does not change the timeline.
- 05Insert and review
Click Insert Batch, inspect the result in Premiere, and review the timeline before your final export.
Work in a copy of your project until the template, track choices, line count, and wrapping look exactly right.
Version 1.1.9
A clearer panel and more flexible timing
A redesigned panel
Larger controls, compact track choices and highlighted mode switches make each step easier to find.
Two clear template steps
Read the timeline style, then connect the matching .mogrt file. Separate statuses show when each step is complete.
Optional overlap handling
Enable Ignore timing overlaps when you want the lower-numbered track to take priority. Review the resulting plan: alignment may be approximate.
Cleaner empty second lines
Compatible two-field Premiere MOGRTs can hide the independent background of an empty second line. Unsupported or ambiguous layouts show a warning.
Before you start
What you need
Premiere
Adobe Premiere 25.6.0 or later on macOS or Windows 10/11 x64.
A subtitle source
A local .docx, .txt, .srt, or .vtt file.
A prepared MOGRT
Place the prepared graphic on a template track and have its matching original .mogrt file available locally or among installed templates.
An empty output track
Create it in advance. The plugin inserts only into the track you explicitly select.
Choose your source mode
Where should timing come from?
Step 1
Prepare the sequence and timing tracks
Open the sequence you want to edit before configuring the panel. Track menus always refer to the active sequence.
Open the target sequence
Select its timeline and confirm it is the active sequence in Premiere.
Create or choose the output track
The track must already exist. Make sure it has no clips inside any range where subtitles will be placed.
Prepare timing tracks for DOCX/TXT
Place host and quote timing clips on two video or audio tracks. Their occupied ranges define when text appears.
Refresh after changing tracks
If you add or remove a track after opening the panel, click Refresh Tracks. A removed selection appears as Vn (missing) until you select a valid track.
When both selected timing tracks share a gap, Text-to-MOGRT leaves that gap subtitle-free instead of filling it automatically.
Timing boundaries
Keep the sequence frame grid in view
Check Timing grid in the plan against the active sequence’s settings. A 50 fps sequence should show 50 fps. You do not need to change the template’s own frame rate.
If adjacent Host/Quote timing windows overlap by exactly one sequence frame, the preceding subtitle window can be shortened to meet the incoming role. The text is reflowed into that shorter window before segmentation. The adjustment must leave both text windows intact.
For larger conflicts, Preview stops unless you enable Ignore timing overlaps. The lower-numbered selected track takes priority: V1 over V2, or A1 over A2. The source clips are not changed. If a role has no independent window left, the plugin reflows the text over the priority track, so alignment may be approximate; review the Preview. This option does not permit output collisions or overlapping SRT/VTT cues. Alternatively, adjust the timing clips and preview again.
Step 2
Choose the MOGRT that defines the look
Text-to-MOGRT uses your template for typography, placement, background, animation, and other supported controls.
Read the timeline style
Put the prepared MOGRT on the Template track, select a separate Output track, and click Read style from V…. Confirm the Timeline style status says Read.
Connect the matching MOGRT file
Click Choose .mogrt… and select the original file used by that timeline clip. Or click Find installed… to scan installed templates and select the matching template. Confirm the MOGRT file status says Connected. Reading the style alone does not connect the file.
You can also expand Installed templates and click Scan Installed Templates. The first scan asks you to select the Motion Graphics Templates folder shown in the panel; access is remembered. On macOS, in the folder picker press ⌘⇧G, paste the shown path and press Enter. On Windows, paste the path into the folder picker’s address field. If copying is unavailable, use the displayed path and navigate to it manually.
After reopening Premiere, read the timeline style again. A remembered MOGRT is restored if it remains available.
Step 3
Choose the workflow that matches your source
Timeline-based timing
Document / Text
DOCXTXTUse this mode when the timing already exists as clips in your sequence. The text is distributed across the occupied ranges of two selected tracks.
- Select TXT / DOCX under Source.
- Under Timing Tracks, choose Host/Quote mode or Simple mode, then choose Anchors by Video or Audio and the two timing tracks.
- Click Choose TXT/DOCX and select your file.
- For DOCX, optionally enable Ignore DOCX strikethrough text.
- Set Lines and Chars per line.
- Click Preview Batch and review the plan before insertion.
Host / Quote
Regular or bold DOCX text follows the first timing track. Italic text follows the second. Mixed formatting stays in source order.
Simple
Ignores DOCX role formatting and distributes all text, in source order, over the combined occupied ranges of both tracks.
Optional · DOCX only
Leave struck draft text out of subtitles
- Choose a DOCX in Document / Text mode.
- Enable Ignore DOCX strikethrough text. The option is off by default.
- Run Preview Batch again. Changing the filter invalidates the previous plan.
- Check the ignored-fragment and character totals, then review the remaining text before insertion.
Direct single and double strikethrough are removed before regular/bold/italic role detection. A struck italic run therefore does not become Quote text. Preview and diagnostics report totals without copying the removed text.
The filter does not inspect inherited named styles, tracked changes, underline, highlight, hidden text or text color. It does not affect TXT, SRT or VTT. If every DOCX run is removed, Preview asks you to disable the filter or edit the document.
The filter choice is saved between sessions. Settings & legal → Reset Saved Settings turns it off. Filtering affects the generated subtitle plan; the source DOCX is not edited.
TXT and unformatted DOCX: content uses the combined timing span of both selected tracks. If both tracks are empty, Preview stops with an error.
Cue-based timing
Timed Subtitles
SRTVTTUse this mode when the subtitle file already contains timecodes. Host and quote timing tracks are not used.
- Select SRT / VTT under Source.
- Click Choose SRT/VTT and select your subtitle file.
- Set Lines and Chars per line.
- Click Preview Batch and verify cue timing and planned clips.
- Click Insert Batch when the preview is correct.
Long cues are split into adjacent, frame-aligned MOGRT clips while preserving the cue's original time range. Invalid or overlapping cues are reported as errors and are never silently treated as plain text.
Lines sets the maximum lines per clip. Chars per line is the requested line-break target. Increasing it can reduce the number of clips when the text allows later word breaks. A word can stay whole up to 1.5× the target; only longer tokens are hard-split.
Steps 4–5
Preview first. Insert only when the plan is right.
The preview is your safety checkpoint. It calculates the complete batch without changing the timeline.
Before Insert Batch
Check these five things
- Source file and source mode
- Template and output tracks
- Planned clip count and timing
- Lines, wrapping, and text order
- Warnings about the selected MOGRT
After insertion
Confirm the success count, then inspect the timeline.
The panel reports how many subtitle clips were inserted. Play through representative sections and review the full sequence before export.
Preview calculates the whole batch, but the visible list may show only a sample and a “more” count. That does not limit insertion. Confirm the source and mode in the plan rather than relying on the project or folder name.
Download the reviewer sample and open a fresh copy of the project matching your Premiere version. Use V1/V2 for timing, V3 for the template and empty V4 for output. DOCX in Host/Quote mode with the filter off at Lines 1 / Chars 22 gives 19 clips; WebVTT in Timed Subtitles mode at Lines 1 / Chars 25 gives 7. Reopen a fresh project copy for each example.
Template compatibility
Important MOGRT notes
Font family and size
Premiere does not expose the edited font family or font size of some After Effects MOGRT text controls to UXP. In that case, generated clips use the defaults saved inside the selected .mogrt.
One text field
Standard one-field MOGRTs accept wrapped multiline text. Use Lines to control how many lines each generated clip may contain.
Two one-line fields
Premiere-authored MOGRTs are supported with exactly two independent one-line text fields when Lines = 2. Line 1 and line 2 are routed to their matching fields. When an unused second field has a uniquely identifiable independent static background Shape, the plugin hides it in the generated clip. Ambiguous, shared, or animated backgrounds cannot be safely hidden; the plugin reports a compatibility warning.
Unsupported layouts stop safely
Lines = 1 on a two-field template, more than two editable text fields, or an ambiguous field layout stops before files or timeline clips are created.
Built for cautious editing
Safety, recovery, and privacy
Preview is read-only
It plans the batch but does not alter the timeline.
No overwriting
An occupied output range cancels insertion before any timeline change.
Automatic rollback
If a batch fails after insertion begins, the plugin removes only clips created by that run.
Offline processing
Sources, timeline data, settings, and generated subtitles remain on your device.
Troubleshooting
Fast fixes for common problems
No sequence or the track menus are out of date
Select the target sequence in Premiere, return focus to the panel, and click Refresh Tracks. After a real track-layout change, read the timeline template and preview again.
The generated subtitles use the wrong styling
Choose the correct template track and click Read style from V… again. If only the font family or size is wrong, save the intended defaults inside the source MOGRT and reselect it.
The saved MOGRT is unavailable
The file may have moved, been renamed, or lost permission. Click Choose .mogrt… and select it again.
An SRT or VTT file is rejected
Correct malformed or overlapping cues. Text-to-MOGRT fails safely instead of falling back to plain-text timing.
Insert Batch says the output range is occupied
Select another existing output track or clear the conflicting clips from the planned ranges, then run Preview Batch again.
DOCX host and quote text goes to the wrong timing
Check the document formatting: regular or bold text is host text; italic text is quote text. Or select Simple if you want formatting ignored.
Some DOCX text is missing or struck text remains
Check the Ignore DOCX strikethrough text filter and run Preview again. Turn it off to retain draft text. If struck text remains with the filter on, check that the DOCX run has direct single/double strikethrough; named styles and tracked changes are outside the filter.
Timing anchors overlap or the fps looks wrong
Confirm the active sequence and its frame rate, then run Preview again. Preview can resolve an eligible one-frame Host/Quote overlap. For larger conflicts, adjust the clips or enable Ignore timing overlaps and review the approximate result. If the sequence frame rate cannot be read, reopen the sequence and retry. Include the Support Report if the error persists.
The template covers generated titles
Hide the template track’s video output while reviewing the generated track. Keep the template clip in place for Read style from V….
I want to clear remembered settings
Open Settings & legal and click Reset Saved Settings. This clears the remembered MOGRT, track choices, source mode, DOCX filter choice, and layout values. Source documents are never remembered.
Still stuck?
Send a support report.
Open Support in the panel, click Copy Support Report, and include the plugin version shown in the header, Premiere version, operating system and what you were doing when the problem appeared. If clipboard access is unavailable, save the report when prompted.