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FCPX subtitles style / alternative to captions
For a documentary film I’m exploring options for embedding English subtitles. I’ve tried to work with the basic captions a bit, but find the style options limited.
I see no way to change the background colour (other than white, grey and black) for example.
Does anyone have suggestions for adding subtitles in a relative fast/doable way, but having more options for choosing a particular style?
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Captions are very powerful, especially now with the Transcribe to captions option. It is very fast and helpful. But as you mentioned, you cannot modify their style as much as you need. One thing you can do is, after creating the captions, you can export the captions and you will have itt-formatted export, and if you go to editingtools.io website, you can convert this itt to xml and import it into Final Cut Pro, and you will have Titles that you can modify as much as you need.
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Thanks !!
Is this a workflow you would recommend or would you personally stay with the FCXP-caption options? I can’t really estimate if the FCXP-caption options meet the general standard for these things.
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You can use both depending on your needs. Captions don’t let you stylize, it is mainly for basic subtitling. If you need more style and animations with your text, you have to use Titles.
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I agree that to have more formatting options, titles are the way to go. Here’s a tutorial from Ripple Training.
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Thanks! I’m going to explore the combination..
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