Subtitles in FCPX, or extern program?

[Francois Jean]

Andreas Kiel ( Spherico ) has great tools for subtitles in FCPX …

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/

there are also many good softwares on the app store: search for SRT … I mostly use

Final SRT , SRT edit Pro, SRT converter , Subtitle Writer, Subs Factoty depending of the situation, you can also convert SRT to SCC caption and embed closed caption with “Compressor”

hope this helps

FRANCOIS

[Andreas Kiel]

Some more notes

SCC is for the NTSC world.
Compressor with the MXF Apple component can’t create embedded subtitles with the MXF. There are some US broadcasters (like Fox) who also accept EBU TTML as sidecar files.
EBU is European but in a modern world DF and NDF frame rates don’t matter any more.

With FCPX use a simple (sub)title template which doesn’t “eat” too much memory. The Apple Basic Title is hungry.
Many users see speed and memory improvements if the subtitles are in a compound clip.
This has to do with FCPX’s memory handling – it keeps undo memory buffer for each and every title with all settings.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Daniel Becker]

Thank you Andreas, this helped me! 🙂