[Bouke Vahl]

VERY late reply, but i see this thread is still found by some people…

Latest versions of Subbits have Pac Import and Export in almost all languages, including Arabic / Chinese / Japanese.

hth,

Bouke

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[Bouke Vahl]

If the files are BWF and have common TC with the video,
you can use my BWF_QT merge application.
It is part of FCPauxTC reader, but also available as a seperate product.

Get the demo here:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/26/fcp-auxtc-reader

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Bouke Vahl]

Jaap,
For that, you need an Avid…

Do toy with my tools, and don’t hesitate to contact me direct if you run into trouble.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Bouke Vahl]

Easy enough, probably alike the Cow is translated automatically.
And YouTube gets a perfectly good formatted text file, where it just have to translate each title.

And yes, it probably sucks, and no, it is quite good.

I have had private emails in Spanish, from someone reading the Cow in auto translated Spanish.
It has never been on his mind that he was reading an automated translation, not the original.
That can mean that he thinks my Spanish is very bad, or the translation is fairly acceptable.

Simple language can be done quite good with automated translations.
But as mentioned already in this thread, the devil is in the details.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Bouke Vahl]

Subtitling in FCP is a bad idea, as it is a darn slow process.

You should use a dedicated application for this.
I happen to have written one:
get a free demo here:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=12

If the titles are in a text generator, you can rip them with Subbits from an XML.

Now for automated translation, there are a few options.
You could export from subbits for Youtube, upload, wait untill YouTube has done the translation, get the new titles from Youtube, and export from Subbits to XML for FCP use.

Or, from subbits, export a Subrip file, use any translation software you have, and import again. (and of course the same XML routine to get back into FCP.

For both situations, of course you have to do manual checking / altering, but it can be a nice start.

hth,

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Bouke Vahl]

I don’t get it.
Files were deinterlaced, yet you desribe them as 60i.
Also, why artifacts during tilts?
Bad deinterlacing shows artifacts in pans more than in tilts.

Resizing has nothing to do with de-interlacing.
(although vertical resizing as if the files were progressive BEFORE interlacing causes major trouble)

So start over, what do you have got, and what is your timeline set up like?

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Bouke Vahl]

It is SO SIMPLE!

On their sytem:
Copy the Avid Mediafiles folder to your drive.
Unmount their media drive
Files are now online in Avid, but reside on your drive.
Go into the bins, select all clips, export to QT ref.
(put them on your mediadrive as well)

Now, make sure you have the Avid codecs installed.
(perhaps not needed if they ingested as DVCam)

If you have no TC (older avid versions), or want a Reelname as well, use QTchange.

Videotour here:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/42/qtchange

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Bouke Vahl]

If you have no budget, better make sure you have lots of time.

Output captions for FLV is Timed Text, an XML variant.
Output captions for WMV is SAMI, a bit HTML alike.

Subbits can output both (and a lot of other formats as well)

https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=12

It is NOT free, but will save you lots of time if you have to do more than a few titles.

If it’s just a one-off, find a company that does this for a living, give them a VERY GOOD transcript and let them handle it.

Or, be prepared to be busy for the next week….

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Bouke Vahl]

Your option is EDL, limited but will get most across after a few tests.

And then you have to reconnect, for that you need this:

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/41/fcpreconnect

But if you have a fair amount of audio leveling / fx done, be prepared to re-do that all, as most will not come across with an EDL…

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Bouke Vahl]

Well, QTchange can create Rec run style TC in batch.
But, i can’t see the problem of the OP.

If he shot free run, the timecode should be up-numbering, unless someone messed with the TC setup during the shoot.

In that case, sifting on TC won’t work, but sifting on clipname always should work…

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros