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Creating Subtitles & exporting them, possibly with Alpha
I have a project which requires subtitles.
I’ve put them on, they take the form of simple white on black text spread over two lines at the bottom of the screen.
I’m creating a DVD of this timeline and can see that Encore imports some form of Subtitling but I don’t really know how best to approach it. I could just produce two versions, one with, one without subtitles but that’s not very Gucci.
Ideally, I’d probably export the subtitles from the Avid as an Alpha (I guess I could export this through after effects) and import it into Encore as a separate, swithch-offable, track.
Has anyone else done this?
Thanks in advance
Alex
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2 Replies
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The best way I know is to create the subtitles not in Avid but in [url=https://www.belle-nuit.com]Belle Nuit’s Subtitler[/url]. Made by editors for editors. You can create subtitles, import/export various formats, and – although I’ve never done this myself – you should be able to export a subtitle file that Encore will handle to create non-burnt-in subtitled for DVD.
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Hi
Download Subtitle Workshop from
https://www.urusoft.net/home.php?lang=1, which is shareware…
and read their manual. Encore supports .txt files.
I suggest you look at an .srt file from any commercially marketed .avi movie (which can be automatically converted by Subtitle Workshop), save it and look at the .txt output. Format your own subtitle track in the same way, save it and import to Encore (Timeline> Importsubtitles> Text Script) If you got the timecode right your job is done. If you didn’t you can alter the synch of all or any of the subtitles in SW.I’m sure you resolved this ages ago, but it seems to be a common problem
Richard
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