Captions Troubleshooting for Camtasia Editor

Problem

When trying to open an SRT/VTT file in Camtasia Editor the following error message appears:

Camtasia Editor cannot import this file. This may be an unsupported file type or the file could be corrupted.

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Sometimes the file imports however the captions do not display properly.

Solution

This can occur if the SRT/VTT file is not saved with an encoding of UTF-8 with BOM.

Using a free text editing program such as Notepad++ or Sublime Text open the SRT file and select File > Save with Encoding > UTF-8 with BOM.
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Import this new SRT/VTT file into Camtasia Editor.

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