Andreas Kiel
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Bret,
Sorry for the confusion and the errors you got.
Using any subtitle file is not that easy since most of the available formats do not “carry” a base FPS information. So timing can be anything.
For example with SRT a “00:01:10,920” time can be absolute or relative. So in a NTSC 30 FPS (DF) environment the “920” (920/1000 seconds) would be “27.6” frames — which doesn’t make sense at all. (With PAL 25 it would be “23” — makes more sense)
What to do? Round up or round down?
In case the time is absolute it will be “00:01:10;27” as you are still in frame 27 — so it’s rounding down always.
But what happens if this TC wasn’t meant to be made for this environment?
Simply convert the time given by HH, MM, SS plus milliseconds to milliseconds. From there convert it to a schema which hopefully matches your target format — in this example NTSC 30 FPS (DF). But you still don’t know how the HH, MM, SS were created — means you only got a better kind of guess.So any app (including those of mine) handling subtitle timing may be wrong or right in certain situations, easier or less easy to use.
Also the input format can make a difference, even when it looks the same (or expected) there may be invisible “bad” characters, line feeds instead of returns or the other way round and so on.In my earlier post I didn’t want to say SUGARfx is bad or something is wrong with it — it is really cool and works for different kind of hosts.
I just wanted to show up that different environments require different approaches or solutions.-Andreas
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while the sugarfx subtitles plugin is pretty cool it is somehow locked to a ‘cage’.
that’s why i mentioned my xti for fcp x (xti is a free app). different from the sugarfx subtitles plugin xti creates a project (from a srt) with titles of your choice. you can merge them with your original edit — so if a clip moves the subtitle will move as well. all subtitle clips will have a role. having more than 1 language therefore is easily controllable. Also the subtitle clips can have names (which are the start of the subtitle text) this allows to have a workaround for the broken text search in fcpx-andreas
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTI/XTI_Help.pdf
Spherico
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Is it possible in X, 7, or CS6 ...These are 3 totally different things!!!
Each of the apps do require a totally different format and approach.
There is no app which covers all of them (this includes my own TitleExchange)For X the only (not perfect) way is to use my XTI.
For 7 you can use several apps, some are even free or available online for free.
For CS6 an option is to use Belle Nuit which has a lot of import options you can convert to others.
You can use my psTitles as well. But it is restricted to Spruce STL as import option. You also need PhotoShop and it is slow. But you will get editable titles in PPro — no other app will give you this option.-Andreas
Spherico
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I’ve uploaded a 1.0.1 version which allows to see and save a more detailed view.
-Andreas
Spherico
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good to hear it helped somebody
– andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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Another thing to mention is that if copy text from whatever text file with a whatever ‘unusual’ always paste the text inside the text field in the canvas — not into the text entry in the inspector.
– Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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Have you tried a font like Agra.
You also may change your keyboard layout.– Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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[Gerry Fraiberg]“Try TKY Subtitler Effect”
As I said earlier, there are a lot of choices — Simon’s TKY Subtitler is a good one.
But regarding the OP — and that’s something I misunderstood with the first reading — he wants to replace existing subtitles with another template.
And that’s a completely different thing. So it doesn’t matter which title template you use when creating subtitles, it will matter which existent template you want to change to another one.Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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I personally prefer sparsebundle DMGs.
Sparsebundle DMGs are kind of folders in a folder rather than one file in case of sparseimages. In case of corruption there is a better chance to repair all or at least parts of it with sparsebundle DMGs — just using DiskUtility.
Another thing why I prefer sparsebundle DMGs is that they can be flagged with a ‘Spotlight Finder Info’ which can be retrieved even if those sparsebundle DMGs are on a remote volume — that’s not possible with a sparseimage DMG (though you can flag them with a ‘Spotlight Finder Info’ if they are on a local attached drive).Hope that helps
– Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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Sorry, the XML parts didn’t made their way and aren’t displayed correctly.
But I think it’s clear what to change.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