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Export to tape help required
I will be the first to admit I am a newbie, hence the cry for help.
Here is the situation:
I have a movie that I have been color-correcting and preparing for DVD release. But the filmmaker has phoned and would like a new copy (post correction) on BetaNTSC for a film festival. Normally this would be no problem, but, the film is in Farsi and he wants it with subtitles burnt in. The subtitles are done in DVDSP as ‘proper’ dvd subtitles.
Can anyone recommend the best way I can output this film with burnt in subs?Thanks!
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2 Replies
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Hi
Quick and dirty:
Play the subtitled DVD in a DVD player, with S-Video or Component out being routed inro a Beta recorder.
(Assuming you’ve got an NTSC DVD).If the movie artifacts are too noticeable, you could burn a new DVD from your DVD SP project with no video, just subtitles (replace all the movie tracks with black slugs) and capture a DVD play-out of subtitles only into your computer, and then after checking for sync slippage, screen-mode composite, or matte, or wipe the subtitles over your edit timeline, render and playout to Beta.
Proper full-res way I suppose is to make graphics of the sub-titles then rebuild your project painstakingly 😉
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Oh, I have the film already in FCP and I’ve done the colour correcting. Do the NTSC conversion is the least of my worries (we produce ntsc and pal versions of most of the stuff we do)!
I am wondering if I create a dvd and output via component if I can do what PaulD suggests. I’ll have to ask what connections they have on the BetaNTSC deck (we don’t have one – we work in PAL).
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