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Subtitle (subcap) Tool Formatting
I have made subtitles with the Subcap effect tool and it allows me to export either .txt or .stl files with the timecode and text just fine, but it doesn’t export any of the formatting with it (ie., Font, size, color, drop shadow, text placement, etc).
Does anyone have any experience with this? I would like to be able to have this information somehow “coded” into the text files or .stl files (like an css header) so that when we have a subtitle company send us translated subtitle files, they will be properly formatted for the Avid.
I’ve seen information under “Help” that mentions xml files, though I cannot find where those files are located. There is also a field in the subcap effect called “User Defined Data,” though I have no idea what to put there and if it does anything useful.
Thanks,
Craig
PS. Please do not respond with DVD related answers as we are not going that route.
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3 Replies
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The .stl file is EBU stl, and by spec cannot contain metadata as you describe.
The text is plain text, so that is also not an option.However, keep one properly formatted title handy, edit that into an imported track and use it as a template to set all the titles. Will take you a few seconds for each show.
hth
Bouke
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Bouke,
Thank you. I was beginning to think that was going to be the case. At least the Avid lets you save styles per track or per sequence for that, so that is what I will end up doing.
Craig
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I am new to all this so if I ask a dumb question, I apologize. I did a search in the forum first and did not see anything like this…soooooo:
I have now created subtitles in Avid utilizing Subcap. My ultimate goal is to have a web-based WMV file that gives the option of using or not using Closed Captioning.
I don’t understand what to do next. I exported a Quicktime Ref file but it has the titles embedded already.
Can anyone give me an idea of what needs to be done?
Thanks,
Dennis
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