subtitles

[Nick Meyers]

you need Title Exchange Pro from Spherico film tools
that can translate your file into an XML that FCP can read.

nick

[Michael Brown]

Hi Nick and good people,

Who knows how to work with this the other way around?

In other words, how can I export subtitles created in FCP 7 (on an individual track with Text or Boris Text) to an .srt file for festival purposes) I’m looking at a 55 min. timeline.

Thanks for suggestions, best from Hamburg,

Michael

Michael Brown

[Nick Meyers]

hi Michael,

Title Exchange Pro works both ways (in many way, actually).
you can export an XML from FCP, and run it though TEP to create an .srt file

but NOT if the text is Boris text. avoid that. i don’t think the XML can see into it.
i could be wrong on that, but it certainly is very hard to work with, and you need subs to be fast and simple to work with

if you haven’t made your subs already, i;d recommend Text Up Pro (also from Spherico Film Tools – maybe it comes with TEP?? can’t remember) or DH Sub from Digital Heaven

both of these can have the subs bottom justified, and have auto-wrap.

cheers,
nick

[Andreas Kiel]

They seem to be not UTF-8.

You may try following:
Open TextEdit.
Press cmd-O and navigate to that file and select.
But before you hit Enter (or double click) select in the “Plain Text Encoding” pop-up “UTF-8”

If that doesn’t work tell the creator to save the file as UTF-8, to zip it and to resend it to you,

As I’m the creator of TEP I for sure can recommend my app ????

– Andreas

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