Importing translations into FCP X – any advice?

[Isa Jacobson]

Thanks so much Keith. I’ll have a look. As I said to Andreas, Jubler just didn’t come up in my searches and I am keen to see what can work – even if it’s for future projects as this comes up a lot in my world.

[Isa Jacobson]

Sounds like the way to go. I think these translators will want a super simple option. I just need to get the formatting right from the start. So they provide timecode in to out: “00:00:00:00-00:03:05:22 tab description” and your software will interpret this correctly and export out an srt that will be accurate on import?

[Greg Ball]

In the future you can contact me. We translate videos into any language and we can either provide you with a timed .srt file, or a dubbed voice track. You can easily lay those back into your project.

I just did that today. We translated 4 videos into Chinese, and I inserted the new Chinese voices into the videos.

Here’s a link to my webpage : http://www.ballmediainnovations.com Just click on Translation and then on the drop down.

Best,

Greg

[Isa Jacobson]

Keith, have just been playing around with Jubler and I’m going to see if any of the translators are willing to give it a go, otherwise I’ll do Andreas’s method. If they are willing, it makes so much sense. It’s the kind of thing I was looking for but I know not everyone will be as excited as me.

[Andreas Kiel]

You can use TC In, TC Out, text but I even would go further and say use TC In, Text only.

You probably have to touch each caption anyway, the translator not. Typing timecodes also are known to error prone.

So if you go the simple way TC In, tab, text

The detailed way: TC In, comma, tab, TC Out, comma, tab, Text (Spruce STL)

The translator doesn’t need to type comma, tab – just tab. You have to replace all tabs with cmma, tabs.

[Isa Jacobson]

Thanks, Greg! Will check it out now