Andreas Kiel
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I don’t know what title you created. But a common error is to have a drop zone in there.
-Andreas
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Brett,
There is a little app of mine since 2 years or so which more or less does this thing.
Download TitleExchange and install. In the TitleExchange folder you will find an app named XTE. Read the help file first.-Andreas
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Hi Olivia,
As Greg said Helvetica or Arial is a good choice.
Regarding the font size interpreted differently it’s really odd and a pain.If you own PhotoShop there might be a solution to create a series of editable layered TIFFs which will look the same in any NLE. I wrote a tool for that it’s called psTitles.
Also another little tool I wrote years ago could help. Its called gRender. It takes an XML and creates a new sequence where each subtitle has a 1 frame duration. You can render out this new sequence as image sequence. This also will work with most NLEs – except FCPX.Look at:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/The psTitles and gRender apps are totally free but you need TitleExchange to be installed since the apps do use some of it’s libraries. It doesn’t matter if you want to use TitlesExchange or not – it just needs to be installed.
-Andreas
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Andy Branner: “Yes, the next version will make the whole sparse and versioning nonsense obsolete.”
As this is just a guess I still believe Sparse Bundles will be a good thing – same as they had been before X.
– Andreas
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Hmm,
It’s always the question what you want to backup and why.
So if all source media, events and projects are on a Sparse Bundle you can use CCC. As a Sparse Bundle is just a folder the blocks inside are handled incrementally. But as mentioned above they are handled as blocks.
Next thing is to backup event and project files. FCPX doesn’t do a good job on autosave versioning. So there is a need (for many people) to do it either manually or using an utility. My approach is to backup those both to the Sparse Bundle (inside a special folder inside the event or project folder which might be on a Sparse Bundle) and to an additional disk same time.Finally you need both.
Same as Alex I had some look into the resources and additionally into the SQLs. Even with my own backup tool for events and projects there is no real “security” unless you constantly reconnect event media – at least every time you change an event name. Changing an event name will finally point to a wrong “Original Media” path.
As Alex mentioned with 10.1 there is probably a new event/project organization which make things said here kind of obsolete.
-Andreas
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As Andy Branner said; it up to you.
Maybe you can use the waveform, set a marker and then use markers to sync.But instead of a clapper board you often enough can use the old fashioned wooden clothes peg. Its cheap and fits into any bag :). You even can paint it to make it visually more clear. If the surrounding noise is low you also can use the waveform of the clips to sync.
– Andreas
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“Either way, you do NOT want to be moving/copying FCP files (be it events or projects) MANUALLY in the Finder. Big no-no. That could quickly and easily lead to corrupt/unloadable events/projects due to ID conflicts or the likes. This is something you always want to do from within FCP via the “Move”, “Duplicate”, Merge” etc. commands.”
This not not really complete or might be a bit misleading.
Copy and Move in Finder are two totally different things – as the words say. So as long as you move your events or projects (and the media) in Finder to the right location everything is fine. No ID conflicts. But you might need to reconnect media. Latter can the same within FCPX and the “Move”, “Duplicate”, Merge” etc. commands.“And yes, editing from an external drive is always the way to go. Editing from your boot drive is not a good idea.”
That’s definitively true and should be the standard way to work.
-Andreas
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use roles.
-andreas
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Alyssa,
TextUp is not a program it’s a plugin for FCP.
So drag the plugin to “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins/” or “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Express Support/Plugins/”. Relaunch FCP/FCE to register the plugin. In the Viewer you’ll find the new generator at “Spherico Text -> TextUp Pro” in the generator list.The generator will just use the means FCP allows. But once you figured out the generator settings you need for your project the rendering quality will be fine. This has been proved with hundreds of movies.
A basic documentation for TitleExchange can be downloaded here:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/TitleExchange_Help.pdf-Andreas
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Allyssa,
From my point of view I never would use Boris for subtitles — you can’t export or import subtitles for/from reviews of translations. Doing changes also cost more mouse clicks.
Text in FCP isn’t that bad with the right generator settings. There is a free generator I created for subtitles at
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/textUp/
That generator allows to work in a “subtitle” style rather than to offset or drag each subtitle to the right vertical position.The next question is: do you want to do the subtitles on the final version of your project, or do want to start earlier and let the subtitles somehow “travel” with your edits.
For the first one there are several apps which allow to do that, but in mayny cases you have to type or paste the text as same as within FCP at the right time. Quality might be better for rendered subtitles.
In the second case you could do the same (type or paste the text into a generator) but you you got more control during the edit.Last thing is — only you can answer — how much is your time worth?
With the right workflow you can save a lot of time.A customer quote for the professional version of TextUp
THANK YOU!
This is the best, most life-saving-est plugin EVER.
I’m doing subtitles on some 5 minute mini-docos and this plugin cut the job down from 90 horrible, tedious minutes per doco to 30 fun, breezy minutes per doco.
With 20 mini docos to do, it’s also restored my will to live.
THANKS AGAIN, best $45 ever spent.He still doesn’t have the “best workflow ever” but obviously saved a lot of time.
For collaborative translation work you also may have look at my TitleExchange. The main free version is limited to 50 subtitles for some features. But there are several free applications which come with the installation which don’t have any limitations.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/index.html
Especially have a look a gText — which is totally free.-Andreas
Spherico
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