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  • The best method for Subtitling

    Posted by Lanzi on June 19, 2005 at 6:26 pm

    Hello folks.

    I need to subtitle a 30 min DV doc.I have both Premiere 1.5 (yes antique!) and FCP4.But it is a tedious job using the native text editors, especially as I have to put opaque black boxes behind the subtitle senteces.

    Is their a user friendly subtitle editor, preferably in sync with Premiere Pro or FCP4 that you can recommend?

    Thanks for the advice.

    Lanzi

    George Socka replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • David J

    June 19, 2005 at 8:14 pm

    It is quite easy to create the first title, complete with any backing shape and then Copy/Save As with new text as you work through the list.

    It is possibly even easier if you create the text in a word processor and cut and paste into the titler as you go, remembering that formatting is applied in the titler and not imported from the source.

  • George Socka

    June 20, 2005 at 9:14 pm

    In PPro the black box can be a separate “title” that is used over and over – or stretched as long as needed. If you have 1 and 2 line titles, create standard 1 and 2 line boxes. Anything outside will not likely work since you need to line up each subtitle with the dialogue??

    Agree with using Word rather than Notepad since it has a spellchecker, in most languages. Put each line of dialogue on its own line in Word, create a title with just a space where the subtitle should be using the font you want, select the line in Word, ctrl-C in Word, ctrl-V in PPro when the cursor is in the title area – double click the aforementioned space, save as using the text you pasted as a file name – again Ctrl-v, ctrl-Z to undo what you just pasted … do over as required. In the project window the new titles will be in the order created. Select them, drop onto a new track on the timeline, move around, Viola

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