Bouke Vahl
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Ah,
now I understand what you mean.
This is really ugly IMHO, and I’ve never seen it…
I would not bother and convince the rest that all centered is the ‘normal’ way of doing stuff.Bouke
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You did not say what generator / plugin was used in FCP 7
Then you talk about a screenshot that I can’t find.
But, you suggest all titles are centered, except when two people are talking in on title?
(That I’ve never seen.)Always, alway, always, if there are ore than a dozen titles, use dedicated subtitle software.
(Since I’ve made an app. for that I might be a bit biased…)
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/subbits-subtitler/Toy with it, don’t be shy with questions.
Bouke
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Hmm.
I do this regular, as it saves time for an inbetween that only has to live for an hour or so.
As long as it works, I’m quite happy with it.Bouke
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QT reference can have both video and audio.
Since all video is / will be rendered, it’s easy to make a simple ‘edl’ in the video part.
But, the audio must be mixed down (to a new .wav) and the QT ref will link to that.
Now, black in the timeline can be a problem. If you need black, make a mixdown from slug and use that.
Also, mixed codecs can cause trouble.If you still have problems, export to XDcam MXF as an inbetween.
The beauty is, transcoding to MP4 can start when the export to XDcam is still working.
(So, if the export to XDcam is faster than the transcode to the final product, you can start the two right after each other.)Bouke
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Jpeg DOES support an alpha channel. Just lots of software does not allow for it.
After Effects can do this. (although not the tool for this job though.)Bouke
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[Duke Sweden] ” Because I, sir, am an artiste!!! ;-)”
24 fps was choosen as a framerate that was a comprimise between smooth motion and low cost.
(Higher framerates costed more film, which was highly expensive.)
Now, that is no longer valid.
Any ‘classic’ director would have choosen a higher framerate if given the opportunity.Nowadays, you pick the framerate you get away with for delivery.
25i if you go to European (and some other) countries broadcast, or 50P if you intend to do a lot of slomo.
29.97i for US (or, double it again and shoot P for slomo)23.976p if you want to go broadcast in both Europe and US.
If you also go to the cinema, shoot P.
Otherwise, 29.97, 30, 59,94 or 60. Probably P (Unless you know the target display is interlaced capable.)
Theatre nowadays eats any framerate, but needs to be progressive.
Bouke
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Don’t forget, subtitles are bottom aligned. and IIRC, the default text generator isn’t smart enough for that. Meaning, you have to start with a return on every single line sub.
Then,
If it’s a feature, you’re looking at some 400 up to 1000 titles.
How are you going to get them in without a tremendous amount of manual labour?
Is it translated already? I would suggest you outsource it. If it’s only to do the conversion to something to make your life easier, outsourcing will be quite worth the money. (I could do it, as I’m the author of this:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/subbits-subtitler/ )Bouke
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I very much doubt there are ‘official’ specifications.
SRT is SubRip, the Rip sorta kinda gives it away, it started out as a hackers format.
Now, ‘some’ software will accept more metadata than other.
Metadata is inside the text in HTML style. It can set font, font style, font color, title position etc.
But I have no clue what Premiere will or will not honour.Next, do NOT talk about ‘captions’ when you mean ‘subtitles’. Those are two VERY different things.
To have full control, you could use my Subbits and render out to (editable) PNG files.
Have a look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKOZAkhRRMBouke
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It means that there is are illegal xml charachters in the xml. And those are double quotes.
the error message is quite helpfull!Replace the quotes (inside the quotes) with " and you should be fine.
Bouke
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VLC on Windows has a wrong black level by default, you have to correct it yourself in the settings.
(And I forgot where, sorry…)Bouke
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