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Adding Japanese Subtitles to video
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
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Europe is (primarily) PAL.
Japan is NTSC (NTSC-J).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSCYou 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 -
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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