.SST Subtitles in FCP

[Bouke Vahl]

Is it text or bitmap SST?

Can you mail me an example?

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Mike Kahn]

I don’t yet have an example. I am told I will receive: The QuickTime file as 8bit uncompressed SD, and the subtitle file is an .SST with matching bitmaps.

I have never had to use these files as we have a caption system in our machine room that usually takes care of these subtitles as an open/closed caption file.

[Mike Kahn]

It is bitmap

[Bouke Vahl]

Lovely.
Then it’s a 4 colored bitmap.
Meaning, one color transparant, one color title, one color outline, one color anti-alias.

This is for DVD, not for video. Quality will suck.

If the guy who supplied it can do this, he can also crank out another format.

Check out Subbits (it’s on my site)
It eats a variety of formats, and spits out either text based XML (to drive a text generator) or bitmap based XML (to connect to rendered PNG files, 24 bit with alpha. The render engine that comes with Subbits creates those.)

If it’s a one-off, contact me if you got a ‘normal’ file, and we’ll work something out.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Mike Kahn]

Thanks Bouke,

I have been going at this for the past few hours with SubBits but have not quite figure it out. Mainly, I get a pinwheel and end up force quitting. I bring in the video reference and then inport the subtitle file which I have both brought in as .sst and .srt and have not had much luck.

Am I doing something incorrectly?

[Bouke Vahl]

Mike,
Are you importing bitmap based files?
That won’t work…

Do mail me what you have, and i’ll have a look.
(If it’s large, just mail me direct and i’ll give you my dropbox)

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros