• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Subtitles

  Posted by Niko Kuehnel on March 14, 2011 at 10:30 am

  Hi,

  I’ve read through the forum and found a few topics similar to this, but not addressing my specific problem. Even though I’m starting to believe there just isn’t the solution I’m hoping for. But I figured maybe one of you still has an idea.

  I am working on a feature in FCP and wrote subtitles for it. Since I want them as part of the video-file, I created them in FCP, using the Boris Title Generator because it has more options, like easily adding a border.

  Now I’d like to somehow get these subtitles into a text file for proof-reading. Exporting the XML obviously works, but so far I haven’t been able to do anything with the XML-file afterwards. Any advice on that?

  Also I have read of ways to copy subtitles from FCP into DVD Studio, through an XML-export and a conversion in Title Exchange. I’ve tried this before but didn’t get it to work. And I think I read somewhere that Title Exchange can not deal with the Boris Text, only the regular FCP text generator. Maybe this is my problem in the first place? Also when it comes to turning my subtitles into a text file?

  It’d be great if someone had any good idea that’s not quite as time consuming as copy-pasting every single subtitle into a text document.

  Thanks in advance.

  Niko

  Andreas Kiel replied 15 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andy Mees

  March 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

  Sadly Niko you have your work cut out for you. The Boris text generators do not make text available through regular (XML) export, so there’s no way I know of to easily automate what you want. You might have a look at the Boris’s XML Transfer app and see if theres some straightforward way to roundtrip the needed text through After Effects … but I’m not sure that even their own tool can access Boris text generator data.
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  Federico Urdaneta

  March 14, 2011 at 8:57 pm

  Google “Annotation Edit”

  Can’t recommend it enough
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  Niko Kuehnel

  March 15, 2011 at 1:23 pm

  I don’t think Annotation Edit can help me here at all. At least it didn’t look like it when I just tried it.

  Have you used it in this specific situation?
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  Andreas Kiel

  March 18, 2011 at 4:34 pm

  None of any of the available app’s will work with Boris. Boris and subtitles which need to be (inter)changed is a NoGo – unless you only have a few.

  If you’re doing subtitles use one of the ‘open’ text generators made for subtitles. There are free and commercial ones frome VideoToolshed, my TextUp V2, and the commercial ones from Digital Heaven and me with TextUp Pro.

  In your case you unfortunately have to do them again.

  Andreas

  Spherico
  https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

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