Nowadays many clients wants to burn subtitles straight into video so they can put video to social media etc. so I made two scripts that makes working with After Effects and subtitles a little bit easier.

With the first script you can import srt files and the script makes automatically text layers from that subtitle file. I wanted to make text layers instead of keyframed sourceText since individual layers gives better control and are sometimes also lighter to process.

ar_importsrt.jsx

With second script you can export text layers to srt file. Your text layers should look something like in the image: use ascending layer stacking.

ar_exportsrt.jsx