Superimposing text post-render

[Sascha Engel]

After you export your film,try to you a subtitling software to put your text on it,renders very fast.just downloaded a freeware application that works very decent.

Sascha Engel

[Michael Black fcp]

Could you share the name of this free subtitling software?

Thanks,
MB

[Rafael Amador]

You can put the text when authoring the DVD in DVDSTP.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Michael Black fcp]

Actually, I was trying to go for more of a text burn-in. You know, like, “Confidential — Not for distribution, put this on the internet and die.”

Turns out, you can do it in Quicktime Pro super easy. It takes some tinkering with text editor, but it’s pretty amazing.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Michael,
If you go to the Movie Properties (Com-J)> Video Track> Visual Setting, you will see the “Mask” window.
Is possible to put a title there, but so far the results I get are no good.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Sascha Engel]

Sure man,

I was just on the road the other day and I did not have the name in my head 😉
The app is called Miyu you can download it here:

https://www.fluffalopefactory.com/miyu/

Sascha Engel

[Tom Matthies]

Michael, how are you adding the title from within QT Pro?
Tom

[Michael Black fcp]

It’s not so much embedding as superimposing. Someone with Quicktime Pro could easily turn the track off, but it pretty much accomplishes what I need to do. I’m not super code-savvy, but I can fake my way with some basic understanding and copy and paste skills.

Basically, put this text into a .txt file. It can’t be .rtf, or anything else. Just plain text.

{QTtext}{keyedText: on}{font:Geneva}{plain}{size:24}{textColor: 65535, 65535, 65535}{justify:center}{timeScale:600}{width:640}{height:360}{timeStamps:absolute}{language:0}{textEncoding:0}
[00:00:00.000] CONFIDENTIAL — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

WORK IN PROGRESS – 090424
[00:00:30.000]

That will create 30 seconds of text that reads “CONFIDENTIAL — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION” across the top, and “WORK IN PROGRESS – 090424” across the bottom. You can then open that with quicktime player, which then interprets the size of the movie (640×360) and everything else. Then select all, copy, then add and scale to another movie (if the movie is a different size, you can just edit the text in text editor or whatever). It works great and instantly. I’m also going to see if I can just embed it onto a QT reference movie, then run that through compressor to create one single track. I’ll let you know my results.

[Rafael Amador]

[Michael Black FCP] ” I’m not super code-savvy, but I can fake my way with some basic understanding and copy and paste skills. “
You know a lot about this stuff.
Please post to tell us how that works.
QT Player have too many secrets for me.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Alexander Kallas]

Hi Rafael,
Congrats again! ( BTW I hang out on the DVDSP forum)
Compressor’s inspector filter tab has a text overlay option.

Cheers
Alexander