Adding Subtitle

[Sidharth Meer]

Hey Jonathan,

I have to create a subtitle DPX master of a feature I just finished grading in Resolve v9. I have downloaded the trial version of Annotation Edit to see if your workflow can help. Can you guide me better as to how I am supposed to import the already created .srt files and export an mov with only the subtitles for Resolve.

The export as quicktime 7 movie option is greyed out until I open the QT file and then when I export it exports with the film image which I don’t need. How do you export a black QT file with only the subtitle text?

Sidharth Meer
Post Production Supervisor @ The Bridge

[Laura Futuro]

I had subtititles as png on finalcut. title by title named “0001.png” and then I exported an XML and imported in Davinci. It worked fine, but now I’m trying to repeat the action and it does not work!

It appear there is an issue on naming, since the xml name the files as they are call “0001.png” and Davinci reads the png either as a sequence as [0001-0200].png or it read as a 1 frame sequence [0001-0001].png so it does not connect.

My big issue is that how I did it before??? And now it does not work?

Is there any new workflow on that?

thank you

[Diksha Sharma]

Hi just wanted to check.
If I take a hq export from resolve without subs.. Bring it to my fcp timeline place the subs and give the same parameter hq export to bring it in resolve and make a dcp.. Will there be a quality loss??

[Michael Gissing]

Depends how you define hq? If you mean a 10 bit codec like ProResHQ or DNx220 or better then no, you shouldn’t see any quality loss.

[Diksha Sharma]

Ya pro res hq is what I meant.. Isn’t this a far simpler solution than moving to a third party software then?

[Michael Gissing]

You can also create your subtitles in Resolve and not go back to FCP. Or export your subtitles from FCP as ProRes4444 and add them to the final timeline in Resolve.