• DaVinci Resolve

  Subtitles !!

  Posted by Jonathon Lee on July 6, 2011 at 11:04 pm

  Hey Folks,

  I’m trying to conform and render subtitles in Resolve 8. My subtitle authoring app will only output .png and JPEG2000 still images. FCP7 opens the XML and loads all of the sub events correctly. Then I add the main video under the the subs track. All is good… then I export a new 2 layer XML…. hurray. Resolve sees the base layer, BUT the .png and JPEG2k images are not recognized by Resolve!

  As far as I can tell Resolve only reads png and J2k images as “stills”. Under “Browse” the folder containing the subs images shows up as EMPTY! You can of course load these images into the Gallery, however, they need to be in the Media Pool.

  Is there a work around or am I just doing something wrong? I’m trying to get my subs app to output TIFF’s, but no luck so far.

  thanks!

  Jonathon

  Ramana Sadhu replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Jonathon Lee

  July 7, 2011 at 12:45 am

  FYI, if you are trying to build subtitled versions in Resolve I don’t think it can be done yet. It looks like Resolve will not link to stills from an XML. In the v8 manual it says “Still images with greater then 1 frame duration” & “Freeze Frames” are not currently compatible. Boo!

  Interestingly Resolve did read the 2nd video track from the XML and inserted events exactly where they were supposed to be in the time-line. Unfortunately they were just slugs. I’m sure it will be supported soon.

  The new XML functionality is really cool in any case.

  – Jonathon
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  Peter Chamberlain

  July 7, 2011 at 1:22 am

  Hi Jonathan, for now convert your stills to a sequence format that Resolve does support. This can be DPX frames or ProRes. As you mentioned the current XML import does not support multiple still frames in the XML and Resolve does not decode JPEG2000 compression.
  Peter
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  Ramana Sadhu

  July 11, 2011 at 6:58 pm

  hey ,

  as far as I know , you have to convert these xml files into .mov file (an uncompressed quicktime mov to be precise) from Fcp and then add this .mov subtitle file to your dpx by using “add as matte” option . pls note that the dpx sequence frames and the quicktime frames should be the same . Then I think you know how to do the rest in color page .

  Thanks & Regards

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