Can we see time in milliseconds on FCPX (for subtitle purposes)?

You probably are a bit confused about "time" and "timecode" options.

SRT uses "time" a FCP project uses "timecode" by default. Latter is based upon frames not time.

So a timecode doesn't have a decimal precision - only a "frame precision"

... scene jumps exactly at, say 00:00:10,23, so I'm putting it as 00:00:10,230 on the srt file (coz they want 3 decimals, so I'm adding a "0")...

The first 23 has nothing to do with decimal fractions - and adding a 0 won't change that.

It's a frame number. Assuming that you working in a 29.97 NTSC project a frame is 1001/30000 seconds long. So 23 frames are 0.767433333333333 seconds -> 3 digit rounding 0.767 -> 00:00:10:23 TC = 00:00:10,767 SRT

Anyway as said earlier: you can upload to YouTube and let their service create an SRT. Then download the SRT and import into FCPX. Do your fine tuning there and export the modified SRT either again for YouTube or anything else.

Why do you want take/copy any visual values from FCP into a SRT text file???

As Luis, Tom and me said it's complicated to convert and totally un-necessary!

Create your subtitles as SRT-Captions in FCPX, the timing will match the frames you set.

Once finished go to Menu-> File -> Export Captions... and export as SRT.

This SRT is precise timing-wise.

The fraction of a frame is for audio, which can be edited more precisely than video, which can only edit in complete frames. It serves no purpose for titling. If you give a time greater than a frame number the subtitle will go onto the next complete frame I presume. The subtitle can only be viewed in an exact frame count, up to 1/60th of a second depending on the frame rate.

"which does show milliseconds (not frames) to only 2 decimals"

NO!

It shows frames.

For example, 1:20:33:23 is 1 hour, 20 minutes, 33 seconds and 23 FRAMES.

There is no direct translation to milliseconds, at least not without knowing the clip (or project) FRAME RATE.

If your project is 25 fps you can equate one frame with 40 milliseconds; it is different for a 29.97 fps, for example.

Your purple boxes are Titles.

You cannot directly export your Titles as an srt files; spherico is the author of great tools that allow you to convert them.

Since 10.4.4, you CAN create srt Captions directly in FCP X, and export them as separate files.

You can stay with you 10.4

Assign roles to your titles - on per language

Export as XML

Convert XML to SRT using XTM

It only shows hundredths of a second and is still constrained by the frame count.

Here is a suggestion. I have no idea if it will work, but I expect it might.

In any case, if it does not work you don't lose anything, so you might as well try...

Open the exported xml file in a plain text editor, like BBEdit (you could also use TextEdit, but make sure that the file is saved as plain text, NOT rich text).

Near the very top of the file, you will see a line like this:

<fcpxml version="1.7">

Replace the 7 by 8:

<fcpxml version="1.8">

and save the file.

Try using it now with XTM.

The subtitles can be placed as precisely as the frames of video allow, no more nor less.

You realize you can import that srt file and have it automatically turned into captions? No need to manually place anything.

And if you want actual titles you can use Andreas Kiel’s (aka “spherico”) xml tools to convert from/to captions.

You can upload the srt files directly to youtube, and have them associated to your video.

If you have them separate from FCP X, as in this case, you can edit the video, upload it, and then upload the srt file separately.

See this:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

Unfortunately the DropBox doesn't work for me.

But as Luis said, in case you have titles you can convert them to captions with my app:

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTMojave/XTE-Mojave.dmg

In addition to Luis's comment: you don't need to share the project. Just select the project. In the menu go to: File: Export Captions

Changing XML version won't help since you need FCPX 10.4.4

But you can convert your titles to SRT with the app.

BUT be aware titles must have ROLES assigned.