API for importing a subtitles file into Premiere

Hi,
We are developing a plug-in for Premiere, that needs to import a srt file and add it to the sequence with the appropriate time codes.
We haven't found any example in the Premiere SDK documentation that shows how to do it.
We noticed that Premiere itself supports importing an Adobe Premiere Title (prtl) file. Is there any way to do it using the Premiere SDK?
We would appreciate any help or code sample on how to achieve this.
Thanks.

Hi Roi,
It sounds like your task involves 2 separate things:
1) Getting Premiere Pro to recognize your .srt file
2) Getting the .srt files in a sequence at the proper timecodes
For the first point, there is already a plug-in that supports this for Windows: EZTitles
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/extend.displayTab4.html#Workflow
To do this, they have implemented an importer plug-in that supports the .srt filetype.  The importer API is described in chapter 5 of the Premiere Pro SDK.
For the second point, you may be able to generate a sequence in the Final Cut XML format that has all the clips at the desired times in the sequence.  Then import the sequence into PPro and the clips will appear at the appropriate time in the sequence.
Zac

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