subtitles and titles after editing?

[Aanarav Sareen]

Premiere Pro is not the right tool for what you are looking to do. I would reccomend taking a look at a real DVD authoring application, such as Adobe Encore DVD.

– Aanarav

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/techtalk

[Vince Becquiot]

I’ve done quite a few subtitling jobs for DVD’s, and I can tell you that none of them ever involved an editing application, unless you have a few months with nothing to do and a lot of patience 😉

As you guessed, with Premiere you’ll have to generate alpha with text images from your subtitler, overlay them on the video, and of course it’s permanent. Encore has a built in subtitler, but it’s really slow as well…

The best way to do it is with a hardware based system, these are really expensive…

The way I do it involves a subtitling application, the one you are using is probably fine, and a DVD authoring program that will support the subtitling format you are working in. That format is usually in the following text form:

‘Timecode in’ – ‘Timecode out’ – “subtitle”

Other settings will involve color, drop shadow, font, and size.

In my experience, Encore isn’t the best here since I think it only supports one format, anyway it wasn’t the one my subtitler was using.

If you have something like Sonic Scenarist, the you are probably home free.

BTW, I forgot the name of the one I was using (hopefully it’ll come back and I’ll post it), but you really need something that will take your script and automatically converts it to a subtitle format so that you only have to make minor adjustments.

Good luck,

Vince

[Vince Becquiot]

Here’s link to a bunch of subtitlers.

https://www.captions.org/softlinks.cfm

Vince

[Jeremias Nussbaum]

thanks very much everybody.

I agree that encore DVD isn’t the best tool for subtitling. especially when you don’t want to export to dvd.
thanks for the link vincent. the hardware solution? in a few years I’ll have the money, hopefully…

My problem with the translation of the titles with the graphics (i.e. the main title) still remains, but I think I’ll have to do it the classical way. keeping the graphics in the original language and then just subtitling everything. or putting in the extra work of producing one final video for each language in premiere.

thanks again,
jereuira

[Vince Becquiot]

I did assumed you were going to DVD.

I guess I’ll keep throwing links 😉

https://www.cpcweb.com/Subtitling/sub_hardware.htm

Unfortunately, the system we leased at the time (which was also analog) is not longer being manufactured.

It has been a while since I’ve touched subtitles, and things have changed, (Mainly that many more people speak English, and that fewer client are still willing to pay for them 😉

You may want to try posting at the broadcast section as well. Also, I would check out Proz.com ‘s forums. They are a leading translation exchange group and I’m sure these guys will have recommendation for the newest and easiest way to create subtitles.

Cheers,

Vince

[Jeremias Nussbaum]

hey,

Since I asked the question, I finally realized what I was looking for.
Thanks again for the links, pretty interesting.
( Though posting at a professional translators site with my english skills frightens me quite a bit;-) )

I think I’ll try a few of the subtitling programs and take the time to try different ways to translate the graphics.

cheers, jereruira

[Jeremias Nussbaum]

hey,

I just found a very interesting site:

https://dotsub.com/

for anyone who wants his shorts on the web to be subtitled.