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Exporting edit with DVD Studio Pro Subtitles to BETACAM
Hello to all!
I have a little problem. I have an hour long edit of a documentary, and want to sent it to some festivals and sales agents. Some of them ask for a betacam copy. How am I going to transfer my doc to a Betacam if I have all my subtitles in DVD Studio? Does anybody out there have a clue of what Do I need to do? I was thinking of exporting a normal DVD and giving that to a post house so they could transfer it to betacam. But compression is an issue and it would look horrible. I would really appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks a lot.
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6 Replies
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The cleanest way is to put all the subtitles into your FCP timeline and lay that to tape.
Once you compress for DVD, your picture will suffer and there’s no way to clean that up.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Hey Walter! Thank you very much for your kind answer. Do you know how to import the subtitles from DVD Studio Pro to Final Cut so I won´t have to do them again?
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Sorry, no.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Anyone out there know how to import subtitles from DVD studio Pro to Final Cut? If there is no answer to this and I definitively have to retype the subs, which software and format do you guys out there think will output the most universal results?
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> Anyone out there know how to import subtitles from DVD studio Pro to Final Cut?
Yes 😉
You can try my TitleExchange. The demo will work for 30 days with all functions available, but is limited to 50 titles per conversion. Feel free to by the full version 😉
You can import a DVDSP track item (after you exported that from DVDSP), convert it to STL, then split the STL text file in TextEdit into blocks of 50 Titles and convert each of them into a Final Cut Pro XML.By the way it’s a very bad idea to layout subtitles in DVDSP – but it seems you already noticed that by now.
Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools -
Hey Andreas Thanks a lot. I agree, Laying out subtitles in DVD Studio was a BAD idea.
I´m just checking out your site and it has tons of useful stuff!. Keep up the good work!
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