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  • Adding Japanese Subtitles to video

    Posted by Nick Brenner on June 6, 2005 at 10:22 am

    I have been asked to added Japanese sub-titles to a corporate video (3 mins) for it to go across to Japan. The organisation will provide a translator. How do I get Japanese characters up on FCP and dramas to look out for in the process. Also Japan would be PAL? Thanks for all your wise replies in advance.

    docofilms PAL 25fps

    John Treffer replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Thaxter Clavemarlton

    June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am

    Europe is (primarily) PAL.
    Japan is NTSC (NTSC-J).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

    You can find many sets of fonts on-line for many languages.
    Just drop any new font into the Mac “fonts” folder, (re-) open FCP and the font will be available.

    If you choose to title without buying a third-party title program, be sure to use “Title 3D” and not the
    native FCP title options.
    In addition to being much more versatile, “Title 3D” can use both “Type 1″ and Type 2” fonts, FCP titler is “Type 2” only.

    As for third-party sub-title software,
    check out the popular Belle Nuit subtitling package
    https://www.belle-nuit.com/subtitler/

    And there is a VERY INEXPENSIVE ($10 !!) subtitle plug-in from Digital-Heaven
    https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/indexflash.htm

  • John Treffer

    June 6, 2005 at 11:36 am

    Japan is NTSC.

    I have not worked with japanese, but I have worked with arab caracters that I couldn’t read and the experience might be similar.

    The translation was done on a mac in textedit. And the basics were to copy-paste to FCP or livetype. I worked mainly in LiveType and it basically just worked.
    In my case timing was quite evident and afterwards the translator checked it.
    If timing is not so evident you can have the translator at you side.

    It went amasingly fluent in my case.

    (To enable Japanese script go to: System Preferences>International>input menu, don’t forget to check”show input in menu bar”)

    good luck

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