Creating subtitles in FCP

[Arnie Schlissel]

I’m not sure, but Title Exchange Pro might do this.

https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/

Arnie
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[Guy Carmeli]

Thanks Arnie.

I’ve downloaded TitleExchange, but the instructions on their website are unbelievably incomprehensible…. Would you or anyone else might know how to import an .stl file with it?

Thanks very much,
Guy

[John Doggett-williams]

I’ve used the outline text feature in FCP which looks fine but wouldn’t advise it for big slabs of text, the controls text window only allows you to see a few lines at a time.

John doggett-williams

[Andreas Kiel]

Guy,

Here just the basics. In TitleExchange goto Preferences -> Conversion, select STL Text as input format and XML as output format.
In FCP create an empty sequence with the settings you need. Add an empty Text Generator of your choice (Boris won’t work and most of the FX Plug ones won’t as well because of the way they store the text). Do a setup for this generator and save as XML.
In TEP now load the STL file (make sure it got a .txt extension – if it’s a text based STL). The process will start and the app will askk you for template. Select the XML you created from FCP. TEP will now use this generator to create a sequence with all the subtitles using the generator you did setup earlier.
Import the resulting XML back to FCP.

Andreas

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

[John Doggett-williams]

I followed your instructions and it nearly worked, but think I became a bit confused by what what you mean when you say set up an empty text generator? Can you give an example please?

John doggett-williams