Create Subtitles for TV-Show

[Mark Suszko]

There’s a COW forum just for captioning: your best advice will come from there.

https://forums.creativecow.net/closedcaptioning

[Andreas Kiel]

Vero,

For Avid it should be easy to convert your Word doc to an Avid compatible text format.

It’s format looks like below:
TC In space char TC Out return char Subtitle double-return.

01:00:00:00 01:00:03:12
Just some made up subtitle text 01

01:00:04:08 01:00:09:16
Just some made up subtitle text 02

01:00:10:13 01:00:15:21
Just some made up subtitle text 03

Once you have done that you need to add a header at the start:
@ Header

You may experiment with the numbers.

You also need to add a "closing" tag at the end of the document:

So finally your Word document will look somehow like below:

@ Header

In Word now save as plain text and import into Avid.

-Andreas

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

[Jim Reed]

I use Sublime by Supramotion. https://www.supramotion.de/software/changelog

After you have developed your movie, send it out as an .mov. It will drop into Sublime. You can save the Word document as a Rich Text file and it will drop into Sublime. Then it’s just a matter of synching the two together. This does take time however, but the results are excellent.

[Simeon Pines]

I’ve just been looking at the demo version of the Sublime program. Can anyone tell me how to get white subtitles on a solid black background (a bar the same length of the text)? Would that be done in FCPX?

Thanks!