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  • Subtitles in Final Cut, need to be on automatically but able to turn off!

    Posted by Luke Taylor on November 16, 2010 at 11:06 am

    Hi Guys,

    Hopefully somebody can help me, I know how amateur this sounds however..

    I am struggling to set my subtitles to be automatically on, without using ‘force display’ which results in the user being unable to turn them off.

    I have tried setting them to different languages etc. as I read somewhere that setting the subtitles to ‘ENG’ results on them being automatically displayed, but no luck.

    I really hope somebody out can help me with this as it is extremely frustrating!

    Thanks a lot,

    Luke Taylor

    Jason Livingston replied 15 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jason Livingston

    November 16, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Hi Luke,
    If this is for DVD and you’re using DVDSP, simply set the View setting to On for that subtitle track. They’ll be on by default but the user can turn them off too.

    Also if this is for DVD, some DVD players are set to enable certain language subtitle tracks by default. E.g. my DVD player is set to display Japanese subs by default if available. In that case the DVD player settings can override the View setting you set in DVDSP. Keep that in mind if you’re not seeing the results you’re expecting based on the settings in DVDSP.

    If this is not for DVD, what is your destination format, i.e. what are you delivering as the final product?

    Hope this helps,

    Jason Livingston
    CPC Closed Captioning

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