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Automate foreign title input
I have a large number of foreign language titles to put on a long video. I have these titles in a text file, also their English counterparts in a text file with time codes. Is there any way to automate the processs of inputting these titles – in FCP ver 6 or Premier CS3? With many thanks, JB
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I have read previous posts here that talk about software that can take text, timecodes and generate an XML file which can then be opened in FCP and the subtitles can be copy/pasted over your original video.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1023373#1023455
Here’s a link from a quick forum search that indicated both https://www.spherico.com and https://www.videotoolshed.com/ may have tools for this task. Forum searching may often be the quickest answer
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Jackie,
You first have to attach timecodes to the titles (in/out, in/duration or something like that) in a way that it can be read by subtitle processors. This can be done with Numbers, FileMaker Pro or Excel. If you got them all formatted you can use my TitleExchange to bring them in into FCP or Premiere.
FCP does have more options because of it’s open XML connectivity and so you can use more or less any ‘open’ text generator within FCP to get your titles in – you even can build your own template with Motion.SubBits is a bit different from TitleExchange as it would allow to spot titles and to render them – which you can’t do with TitleExchange, but SubBits is more limited when it comes to choose a FCP generator, though it comes with a nice one.
Depending upon your needs you can use both programs as TitleExchange can import and export the the SubBits format and you got the best of both worlds.Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools -
Thanks, guys, this is a help. JB
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@Jackie
I have a video for which I’ve manually made subs with a text generator in FCP, but need to change the format of all the titles. I know that in principle I should be able to export the timeline as XML, strip the titles from their video track, and reimport using a new template, but I haven’t been able to make it work. When I tried this earlier on in the project I was using the demo version of TitleExchange before deciding whether to buy or not. Do you know if it’s possible to use TEP to strip a track of titles from a sequence XML and reimport using a new generator? If so, can you lay out the workflow for me?
Thanks!
Joe
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Hi Joe
I haven’t bought Title Exchange yet because it wouldn’t have helped with my job – mainly because I didn’t have the time codes for each title. So I had to listen to the audio and input them manually.
However, in the past, I have exported titles out of FCP to XML, made changes, and reimported them. Don’t export your video to XML. Hide the video track and simply export your titles. Then you can use search and replace in a text editor to make your bulk changes eg if you wanted to change the font from 28 point to 30 points all the way through, you could search for
= “28” (or whatever your tag is), and replace it with = “30”. Then reimport the XML.</p> <p>If this is too labour intensive, I’m sure that TE would do the job.</p> <p>JB
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