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1. Following a valuable sample file 0000 MISSION EN ENFER 1AB 0000 1 85 0043 03 0048 00 00 0 Look how wrapped it well Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 86 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 0052 00 0052 00 00 0 chang plan 0055 03 0058 15 00 0 wrote inside of it Now I can t read them any more Note 35mm feet count is assumed 1 feet 16 frames Note The header line may also start with a and spaces Titra 2 Titles are separated by double returns Each title starts with a line with a title number feet in feet out and a third number Each title then has one or two lines of text Comments start with MISSION EN ENFER REEL1 0001 0043 03 0048 00 00 00 Look how wrapped it well 0002 0052 00 0052 00 00 0 chang plan 0003 0055 03 0058 15 00 0 wrote inside of it Now I can t read them any more Note 35mm feet count is assumed 1 feet 16 frames Note The header line may also start with a and spaces Note The file from Titra maybe an RTF file Open that RTF file first in TextEdit and convert it to a textfile before you import it to Subtitler Titra 3 These are RTF files from film spotting Titles are separated by triple returns The first line starts with duration title number and an internal number This format has not enough information to recover the timecode so only the text is imported 02 03 0002 06 In this building b
2. Import the movie Set the Framerate You may want to set an offset to have identical timecode with the Avid Sequence Spot and translate in Subtitler Use the Preflight tool to check your spotting Render and export the titles Export to EDL Import the EDL into EDLManager and transfer it to the Avid Import all titles into a new bin with the options 601 non square 601 Levels Invert Existing Alpha and Deselect Import Sequential File Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor o On a Media Composer sort the titles by name select them all and shift control drag them to the Composer window o On an Xpress sort the titles by name select them all and drag them to the timeline Load your program sequence into the Composer monitor and add a new video track Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence In the timeline display Sample Plot and zoom in so that you can see about 15 20 seconds at once You can now do your editing with only keystrokes Go to next title S Mark in and out T Toggle monitor ESC Go to next title S Edit overwrite B Taaale monitar FSC and sa an nuokBHK WD Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 36 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 6 Toggle monitor ESC and so on You can automate this repetitive operation with the Avid Helper Tool This tool sends keystrok
3. If the Box level is bigger than 0 then the subtitles are not transparent and have the Box color as background You can export a file as QuickTime text with chinese characters if you select a chinese font Export as QuickTime Text and Mac Chinese Traditional SAMI You can export SAMI files for captioning of Windows multimedia files SAMI files use a format much like HTML which is documented on the Microsoft website at http msdn microsoft com library default asp url library en us dnacc html atg_samiarticle asp This export is experimental for the moment as we do not have means to test the output The character encoding is using HTML entities and is limited to characters of the ISO Latin characterset Scantitling Scantitling is a interchange format from swedish Subtitler translation The titles are separated by double returns The title contains a first line with the titlenumber a period two spaces input timecode with a period before the frames two spaces output timecode with a period before the frames and one or two lines of text Sonic Producer For Sonic Producer you can only import text Text encoding is limited to MacRoman and styles are ignored Sonic Scenarist Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 72 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse For Sonic Scenarist you can import the rendered subtitle files Export using the TIFF DVD file format then export Sonic Scenarist You will have to edit ma
4. Localized versions of Final Cut Pro and CMX3600 EDL The formatting of the comments of the imported and exported EDLs are not the same for all versions of Final Cut Pro While the english version of Final Cut Pro uses FROM CLIP NAME to define the name of the clip which is pretty standard the french version uses DU NOM DE CLIP Belle Nuit Subtitler exports with the english text and expects an english text on import If you use the EDLs with a french version of Final Cut Pro you must replace the texts with a text editor Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 47 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Using subtitles for DVD authoring Note This is an advanced feature that requires knowledge about the DVD authoring tool you use Subtitling is now often used for multiple targets as a time You need not only subtitles for the video tape but also for DVD authoring After exporting the picture files and the titlelist you can import them into your DVD authoring system This part depends on your DVD authoring system Following a list of instructions for some systems e DVD Studio Pro e Sonic Producer e Sonic Scenarist But before we d like to remind you of some important differences between Video and DVD subtitling There are some limitations defined by the DVD design that make subtitle authoring a little bit complex Video subtitles are directly in the video signal They use the full color space of the video si
5. Register When you want to use Belle Nuit Subtitler for rendering titles you need to register Go to the the Apple Register Windows Help Register menu and enter Username and Serial Number Note Macintosh and Windows licenses are separate license You cannot use them on the other platform Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 15 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Installed files The following files are installed OS X o Applications Belle Nuit Subtitler o Library Application Support Belle Nuit Montage com belle nuit subtitler keyfile o Library Application Support Belle Nuit Montage Subtitler Templates o Library Preferences com belle nuit subtitler preferences e OS 8 6 9 o HD Applications Mac OS 9 Belle Nuit Subtitler o HD System Folder Preferences Belle Nuit Montage subtitler keyfile o HD System Folder Preferences Belle Nuit Montage Subtitler Templates o HD System Folder Preferences subtitler preferences e Windows o C Program Files subtitler exe o C Documents and Settings Administrator Application Data Belle Nuit Montage subtitler keyfile o C Documents and Settings Administrator Application Data Belle Nuit Montage Subtitler Templates o C Documents and Settings Administrator Application Data Belle Nuit Montage com belle nuit subtitler preferences License This program is commercial software If you want to use it you need a license Offline License You can freely di
6. Scripting Write down your dialogs using the defined borders in the spotting Use Belle Nuit Subtitler or use a Word Processor Translating Translate your titles in a second window in Belle Nuit Subtitler Export the titles KR W PO In the FCP select the placeholder titles in sequence and reconnect media Show FCP the location of the new titles 15 Edit the title sequence into your sequence Note By default titles are numbered on a 0000 tif format You will be safer however if you name the titles in Subtitler explicitely with the file tag This will allow you to add additional titles in corrections without creating a confusion on the filenames Workflow External spotting The spotting and the translation is provided as a file by an external service bureau Import the external subtitle file in Subtitler with the Import tool Add the formatting and export the titles as TIFF RLE Export the EDL CMX 3600 with comments with the Export List tool Import the EDL into Final Cut Pro The title sequence will consist in a series of offline graphics Select all titles in the sequence and reconnect media Show FCP the location of the new titles now KRWDY 7 Edit tha titla cam anra inta war nranram can anra Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 44 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 7 Edit the title sequence into your program sequence Making corrections
7. This a great little program I m doing a 60 min piece now that will air on PBS next April and needed a fair number of subtitles Of course have the complementary suite of tools Al PS AE and FCP but managing all the pict files and or layers for a subtitling project in ANY of these programs would be quite a task BN Subtitler has one window for all your titles you can name and comment them from the same window and the output with 1 unit of blur actually looks better than PS or FCP unless of course you blur there but then you have the hassle of layer managment and type setting Put it this way 89 sounds like a lot but sometimes work flow is more important than cash When the client gets here I m convinced this program will make things much much easier In fact they can download the program use the Offline version and type them up then just email me the file Or just save text out from Word It imports all the text you ll need Only suqgestion and hence the 4 stars really really want to be able to spit out the frame Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 6 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse suggestion and hence the 4 stars I really really want to be able to spit out the frame via Firewire to my monitor it has a decent preview but NTSC is NTSC I would give 4 5 if I could Good job and Beautiful Night to you J3ph on Versiontracker Add your own Comment matti belle nuit com Ref
8. e 9 Trim the end of the title at the position one frame to the end You can also navigate the movie on the Timeline The upper timeline shows the position of the titles if the Synchronize option is active The lower timeline shows 8 seconds of titles with an audio waveform mark in mark out and colored lines for existing titles The color of the subtitle line does indicate the reading speed If the color is green the reading speed is correct to the reading speed you define in the preferences 12 characters by second as default If it is red it is more than 20 too fast if it is blue it is more than 20 too short Note No waveform is shown for videos with muxed tracks Note If you use a reference movie it may happen that a referenced file has disappeared In this case you will get a QuickTime error You can choose the File Remove Movie menu to remove the movie from the Subtitler file and to remove the error message Note Final Cut Pro movies do not step properly with the arrow keys If you export a movie from Final Cut Pro you should not export a Final Cut Pro movie FCP icon but a generic QuickTime movie QT icon The Preview section Simulates the wrapping of the titles to give you the possibility to edit space critically The size is fixed top the size you set in the Preferences but margins are adjusted according to the textsize Color is always white and shadows and borders are not shown to speed up response To have the pre
9. Click on the color rectangle to choose another color The Level popupmenu defines opacity Leave it at 100 for the moment Close the Style section Text u Border Shadow _ Box _ Horizontal Position Helvetica PEJ 36 Bon Ae sos Pe OWL BL qe 72 Center H Je O Du 10s i owm W losen W i osor E 648 an I Spacing 0 Soft 0 Soft is Vertical Position 0 Leading Im EE Ye 450 2 Center Lz Go to the Titlelist text editing field and start writing your subtitles This works like SimpleText and has the standard featues cut copy paste and find You can multiple undo your typing 100 levels until the last saved state You can also redo e g undo your undo Each page is separated by a Y Preview doube TETU AS YOU Ly Per Te These subtitles are title is shown in the Preview section The preview section wrapped automatically shows the amount of space you have depending on your font size the video format and the left and right limits you set in the style section The black rectangle adapts to reflect the available space If you are typing a line which exceeds the size limit the text is wrapped In the style section you have three options for wrapping e No wrap Exceeding text is cut e Simple wrap Exceeding text is wrapped to the second line e Smart wrap If the text does not hold in one line it is wrapped to have minimal width through both lines In most cases you may prefer the last option
10. Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Testing The offline version of Belle Nuit Subtitler is available for download Third party developers can open and save Subtitler files with this version without restrictions Format history The current Subtitler file format was introduced with version 1 4 and replaced a binary format The format is backwards and forwards compatible between all Subtitler versions with some restrictions e Later versions may introduce properties that are not known than former versions These properties are ignored by the former version and are lost when saving the file e The physical interpretation of some values may change over time For example the border thickness has changed between two versions The titlelist is source text with comments New comments like tc have been introduced which have no meaning in older versions Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 114 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Copyright and Disclaimer The software is provided as is and without warranty of any kind express implied or otherwise including without limitation any warranty of merchandtabality for a particular purpose In no event shall Belle Nuit Montage be liable for any special incidental indirect or consequential damages of any kind or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use data or profits wether or not advised of the possibility of damage and on any theory of liability arising out
11. If you prefer STL Text you can also export STL Text and import that file into DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro 2 supports only MacRoman characters Later versions of DVD Studio Pro support Unicode but the file must be Unicode RTF Using Subtitler with Sonic Producer Sonic Producer does not support the import of subtitle pictures However you can export the titlelist as a textfile from Subtitler and import that into Sonic Producer Use the Export tool and choose Sonic Producer as list format Import that file into Sonic Producer The Sonic Producer format does not retain any title formats These are defined then within Sonic Producer Avid DVD is a variant of Sonic Producer and can import the same format Using Subtitler with Sonic Producer Belle Nuit Subtitler creates still image files which can be used as subtitles for DVD authoring in Sonic Scenarist 1 Set the video format to PAL DVD or NTSC DVD 2 Set the file format to TIFF DVD This will create a TIFF with key colors white red blue black 3 Export the subtitles 4 Export an SST Scenarist file The filelist format has a field for the absolute path of Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 52 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse the subtitles Note the path now if you know it already or set it later manually using a texteditor 5 Import the SST file into Scenarist 6 Adapt the Scenarist color palette using the RGB values in the SST file
12. Subtitling is an interactive process which has often several steps of reviewing and corrections Keep the Subtitler document open while editing in the FCP If you need to make a correction 1 Go to the Subtitler correct the text export the individual title 2 Inthe FCP timeline select the title clip and reconnect again If you make also corrections on the spotting You can update the changes you made in Final Cut Pro 1 Export an EDL CMX3600 of the subtitle track including the file comments 2 Use the Import Tool in Subtitler to import the EDL 3 Use the Spotting Tool Update Timecode to update your original Subtitler file based on the imported document Creating and additional language Once you have created one language version you can recreate other language versions without much work Create a new subtitler file with the same number of titles in the new languages Export the titles to a new folder In the FCP duplicate the subtitled sequence Select all titles in the title track Do a reimport a AUN Note Keep in mind that other languages can have titles which are as much as 50 longer than the same title in English You have three solutions Summarize more strongly with some creativity have a slightly smaller fonts or have two lines instead of one Making more titles would not be an option because you would exceed the attention a public can give to subtitles Realtime vs Rendering Depending on your
13. but the realtime playback of the video may suffer as the subtitles are overlayed and not rendered The trick is to open it and export it as QuickTime file in your favorite compression format or to import it into an edit system Both are not very fast depending on CPU So this is experimental for the moment To successfully play the file the movie and the exported tiff files must be in the same faldar AA A CMAI Ala CA tha sarli Aana in Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 70 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse folder as the SMIL file So the workflow is e Import your movie into subtitler and spot it e Export the TIFF files to the same folder where the movie is e Export the QuickTime SMIL file to the same folder where the movie and the TIFF files are Open the file in QuickTime player end export it you need QuickTime Pro for this QuickTime SMIL Text exporters This exporter creates a QuickTime reference movie that links the movie you are spotting with a QuickTime text track This allows you to create a QuickTime movie with the subitle track without having to open it in QuickTime player Movies with subtitle tracks can be used for reviews and for Internet distribution Procedure 1 The movie you are spotting with must be the movie you want to use as referenced file 2 Export first a QuickTime Text file into the same folder than the movie 3 Export now a QuickTime SMIL Text into the same folder The
14. go to the property window set mapping type to chroma Then set pe Fro white and black 9 Click on the aeai to me a a If you choose not to have a border or an underlining rect then your palette settings may have to be slightly different Look at the RGB values in the palette comment of the exported STL file STL format specification If you need to create the STL file by hand refer to the DVD Studio Pro 2 manual to the details of the STL format You need DVD Studio 2 3 or 4 for this workflow Earlier versions do not support the STL format Importing problems DVD Studio Pro often experience importing problems when they first work with Subtitler There are two things to remember Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 51 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse e Note You cannot import in DVD Studio Pro with amenu command You have to select a subtitle track control click on it and select Import on the context menu An import will remove all existing titles on that track e In the Subtitler preferences you can choose wether or not to use tape offset for STL export While DVD Studio Pro is timecode aware this is often a source for errors DVD Studio Pro will not import all titles because they are beyond the video assets in the track You cannot have subtitles beyond the video assets We therefore recommend to work with absolute timecode start at 00 00 00 00 or not using tape offset Using STL Text
15. open it in a text editor Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 53 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Using Subtitler in Digital Cinema Digital Cinema projectors can insert subtitles on runtime This makes a worldwide distribution of a film possible with subtitling in the local language Subtitler currently supports exporting to the DLP Cinema format of Texas Instruments Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 54 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Reference guide Subtitler Document Subtitler documents are XML files in Unicode UTF 8 encoding The files are portable between Mac and Windows and have the extension stp Note to Mac Users If you mail subtitler hles or exchange them with PC users do not forget the extension stp when you name the file The files are portable between Subtitler 1 4 and 1 7 The features not available on 1 7 are ignored in earlier versions Note As we are constantly improving the rendering of the subtitles rendering may be slightly different between Subtitler versions If you move a file from a computer to another and a font is missing you will get an error message Please set then the font to one of the fonts available to the system Subtitler 1 0 and 1 1 had a proprietary binary format Subtitler 1 7 can read the binary format You can also save to the Subtitler 1 1 format using the Export Tool Document Window The document window has five sectio
16. which is ignored You have to set the framerate yourself Then all titles are separated by double returns Every title has one line with the titlename and a period two lines with starting and ending timecode and one or two lines with text Italic text is marked with headers 1 01 02 27 20 01 02 31 03 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 2 01 02 38 13 01 02 39 13 during the war which lasted 77 days Cinetyp Film Each reel is a line starting with ACT followed by the number of the act and the offset of the reel in framecount There can be more than one reel in a file Each title has a header line with the unique title number a space a framecount for the in a space and a framecount for the out point The framecount can also be in feet frames notation It is then followed by one or two lines starting with a tabulator and the actual title text Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 76 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Following a valuable sample file where lt tab gt represents a real tabulator Input C CINTINEU IOCT Output a 9611df tc Convert TIMECODE ACT 01 OFFSET 000000 0001 000191 000321 lt tab gt BELLE NUIT MONTAGE presents 0002 000386 000432 lt tab gt Hier hat es keinen Staub lt tab gt Il n y a pas de poussi re Cinetyp Timecode Cinetyp timecode files are textfiles with windows textencoding Titles are separated by doub
17. 15 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 2 TAB 10 07 53 19 TAB 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days Online CaptionMaker onl This is a binary format used by OnlineCaptionMaker Subtitler imports the spotting and english text We do not have information about other textencodings OnlineCaptionMaker is designed for continuous spotting so the titles do not have an outpoint except when there is an empty title Subtitler creates a splitting distance between the titles according to the split difference preference setting Note The importer is written with sample files If you do experience wrong imports please submit us the files PAC This format is a proprietary format from Screen Subtitling Systems Note The conversion algorithm is based on example files as we do not have a specification of the file format Unknown accented characters are translated by there hexadecimal values Please report files so that we can improve the algorithm Note This is a binary format that also encodes some low Ascii characters in a non standard way We have detected some of them but please report if your files do not convert properly Power Subtitling Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 82 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Textfiles exported by the Power Subtitling program Be sure that it is a text file and not a word file Titles always have four lines The first line contains
18. 25 MB of RAM and you should be fine This problem should not happen any more with Subtitler 1 4 have a video in 23 98 spotted in Belle Nuit Subtitler with 24 and it is not correct when import it into FCP We currently do not support 23 97 only true 24 However a trick may help you to correct the spotting Use the Change Framerate command in the Spotting Tool You need to get to timecode of 1000 1001 the duration The sequence is 1 24 to 29 97 constant time Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 108 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 2 29 97df to 30 constant framecount 3 30 to 24 constant time Does Subtitler make Crawls and Rolling titles No it doesn t Importing of a animated title would be longer than creating it inside Avid Where can i ask further questions and make feature requests Ask me matti belle nuit com Please understand however that program support is limited to users with an online licence Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 109 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Step by Step There is a new series of step by step guides with screenshots Go to the Subtitler website and click on step by step http www belle nuit com subtitler stepbystep Subtitler L maillist Join other Subtitler users to discuss subtitling in general and the use of Belle Nuit Subtitler http mail filmeditor ch mailman listinfo subtitler I_flmeditor ch Subti
19. 49 22 10 07 53 15 00 0 1 0001 00 16 070 020 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 00 0 1 0001 00 16 070 020 during the war which lasted 77 days Feet Frames notation 02899 01 02904 12 00 0 1 0001 00 16 070 020 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 02905 00 02908 10 00 0 1 0001 00 16 070 020 during the war which lasted 77 days Frames notation 0289901 0290412 000 1 0001 00 16 070 020 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 0290500 0290810 000 1 0001 00 16 070 020 during the war which lasted 77 days Mauritius Film This format is used by some labs It contains a first line with title number and a period a second line with feet frames of start and end separated with a slash and then the textlines Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 81 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 1 615 03 62 00 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 2 63 12 64 02 during the war which lasted 77 days MTL Text The MTL text format is output of Cavena subtitler editors Titles are separated by double returns The first line contains title number starting and ending timecode sparated by tabs The following lines start contain the lines Note the title numbers do not have to be in order and can contain suffixes 1 TAB 10 07 49 22 TAB 10 07 53
20. 53 19 TAB 10 07 57 00 TAB 00 00 03 06 TAB J F LLOOOOODO TAB C during the war which lasted 77 days TimeCode Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 85 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Titles are separated by double line returns The first line contains starting and ending time code and duration followed by one ore more other lines with the text A line beginning with signifies the end of the cueflle All following text will be ingnored Time Code values must be valuable there will be no checking on parsing 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 03 18 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 03 06 during the war which lasted 77 days TimeCode The file can have a header which is ignored Each title is starting with a line followed by another line with starting and ending time code and one ore more other lines with the text A line beginning with signifies the end of the cueflle All following text will be ingnored Time Code values must be valuable there will be no checking on parsing 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days Titra Each reel is in a separate file Each title starts with a line and a header line with feet count of first and last image It is then followed by one or two lines of text or comments starting with
21. Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Text without comments The Titlelist with the comments removed will be exported to a TEXT file with the creator ttxt Simple Text Import Tool The Import tool can import over 30 subtitle formats The Import Tool of Subtitler 1 7 replaces the TitleListConverter Most list formats are textfiles some are binary EBU PAC and others You can specify the textencoding for the textfiles You can also import RTF versions of the textfile formats In that case textencoding is specified in the file You cannot import Word of Excel files convert them to textfiles first The subtitle file can have one of the following formats Adobe Encore Image This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring program Each subtitle begins with a number optional a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the filename Two lines at the beginning show directory and image size and are ignored The separators can be tabs or space Zone_d affichage 0 0 720 5 76 R pertoire C 1 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 film001 tif 2 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 film002 tif Adobe Encore Text This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring program Each subtitle begins with a number optional a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the text If there is a second line it is added as line The preferred text encoding is UTF 8 The for
22. EDL CMX3600 of the subtitle track including the file comments 2 Use the Import Tool in Subtitler to import the EDL 3 Use the Spotting Tool Update Timecode to update your original Subtitler file based on the imported document Creating and additional language Once you have created one language version you can recreate other language versions without much work 1 Create a new subtitler file with the same number of titles in the new languages 2 Export the titles to a new folder 3 Inthe Avid duplicate the subtitled sequence and delete all tracks except the subtitle track 4 Decompose the track Decomposing will unlink the titles so the batch import will not screw up the old sequence 5 Select the sequence and batch import Show the batch import tool the location of the new titles 6 Edit the sequence into a duplicate of the program sequence Note Keep in mind that other languages can have titles as much as 50 longer than the same title in English You have three solutions Summarize more strongly with some creativity have a slightly smaller fonts or have two lines instead of one Making more titles would not be an option because you would exceed the attention a public can give to subtitles Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 39 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse to subtitles Media Composer 7 x Xpress 2 x These older versions do not support the Batch Import You will therefore need t
23. Feature Added iPod and iPod 16 9 video formats Feature Added support for 23 98 framerate Feature Added QuickTime SMIL Text exporters Feature QuickTime text is not keyed and has the box background if the Box opacity is more than 0 Quality Improved 1 and 2 Boxes with optical font analisys Improved sepration of 2 Boxes Change You do not need the online license any more for the Preflight tool Change Removed the Buy Now option because it is not reliable Interface The focus titlelist or movie is now not only shown with the focus ring but also the section label preview or movie is underlined This solves the missing focus ring problem on some windows installations Interface Resolved cosmetic overlapping of empty movie section and preview section Interface Offline user is reminded to buy online license before the last moment Bug Added missing special characters in EBU format Bug RTF Text is now also read in CapMaker Plus subtitles This allows to import italic text Bug Import EBU suppresses now the BOX ON BOX OFF control characters Bug On Cinetyp timecode export removed period after titlenumber Bug FCP XML fixed path crash Path is now URL and not unix path Warning when export folder is missing Bug Fixed long RTF entries issue on CapMaker Plus subtitles Bug Improved FCP XML export for pixelaspectratio HDV and alphatype Bug Catched a special encoding for the i character in PAC files Bug Made Ci
24. Preview section Titlelist section Comments and style tags Tools Avid Helper Tool Export Tool Import Tool Monitor window Preflight Tool Spotting Tool Style Tool Preferences window Menu reference Resources Frequently Asked Questions Step by Step Guides Maillist File format Copyright History Subtitler Documentation 57 59 61 62 62 65 66 67 74 89 89 90 90 91 92 94 100 109 110 110 114 115 127 27 11 2006 page 3 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Features e Full quality antialiased titles with alpha channel e Support for PAL NTSC nonsquare pixels HD HDV DVD iPod 4 3 and 16 9 e Fast batch rendering to PICT BMP TIFF and lossless compressed TIFF e Spotting with a QuickTime movie e Audio waveform and scrubbing e Reading speed indicator e Preflight tool to detect subtitle errors e Spotting tool to perform spotting calculations and updated based on editing changes e Importing of more than 35 subtitle formats e Exporting of more than 20 formats to use subtitles in Avid Media Composer Avid DS Avid Xpress Final Cut Pro DVD Studio Pro Sonic Producer Sonic Scenarist Texas Instruments Digital Cinema projector and other e Straightforward title editing e Automatic or manual text wrapping e Customizable fonts styles colors position opacity softness alignment borders shadows and underlying boxes e Unicode support Works with any installed font on t
25. Replace All Find window now supports n for newline Change The offline license does now limit export to 10 titles Improves testing on nonroman platforms where the offline word disturbed title Change Parse style tags is no always active removed checkbox in Preferences Bug Fixed alpha type error in FCP XML files Bug Fixed two line export of EBU STL files Bug Fixed timeline graphic delay when Offset is not zero Bug Fixed jumps to the beginning when you change from movie to titlelist and are between two titles It now jumps to the title before Bug Fixed crashes when application is quit with open monitor window Bug Fixed bug on replace when replacing text was longer than replaced text Bug Added more tolerance against illegal characters pasted into subtitler documents Bug Improved preview for nonroman Characters with more than one line Bug Fixed Creation Date of subtitler documents Diim laannan vANI At AIAN an NCV Ant Ann snth senna Karina In ar Ala nanmainninannan Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 123 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Bug Improved registering on OSX systems with user having limited file permissions Bug Trimming does not put the title out of scope any more Bug Fixed file comments with 0000 when importing EDL with filenames starting with a letter Bug PAC importer ignores now characters 28 11 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 6 3 Feature Turkish interface Featur
26. Suisse Moral of the story DVD subtitles cannot be as good as video subtitles and exporting to DVD authoring needs a setup with some experimenting which is not always obvious for the novice user TIFF DVD Export Subtitler 1 7 proposes a new file format TIFF DVD With this format Subtitler replaces itself the user defined colors and levels with the key colors black red blue and white The colors and levels themselves are exported separately into the authoring files STL Graphic and Sonic Scenarist DVD authoring allows only for 4 key colors so antialiasing is more a kind of simulation Subtitler tries to use the key colors at their maximum to allow antialiasung with when elements border rect are not used Antialiasing can be controlled with the textsoft parameter Whenever Textsoft is bigger than O the program tries to antialias For best quality use the native video formats PAL DVD 720 756 and the NTSC DVD 720 480 These allow to render the fonts directly to the native space therefore reducing rescale artefacts You get the best results when you use PAL DVD and NTSC DVD videoformats with or without antialiasing all all m fo Text a 000 Text Red Text 100 0 0 100 eo pe roohi Bescon eo Tat Red Text u un Box 100 00 0 Black TE i TE i Black Text Red Text 0 O 0 7 Black Text 0 0 0 7 You can view the TIFF DVD image in the Monitor tool while you option shift click on it No
27. The Still Chache slider defines the amount of memory you have for subtitles FCP uses about 1 1 2 MB per subtitle on standard definition Why do I have to redefine the export path every time I open a subtitler file Subtitler sometimes cannot successfully store paths to folders when the path contains non ascii characters or when the path is too long Try to simplify the path move the folder direct to the root of the harddisk Also paths can be lost when you move the subtitler files between computers Why do my titles have wrong video levels Note that black and white are not the same numbers in computer images and in video applications Computer images have a rangefrom O to 255 video has a range from 16 to 235 Going outside this range results in illegal video levels This means for example if you need white titles with black borders for the Avid you need to set the title color to 235 235 235 and the border color to 16 16 16 and to import the titles into the Avid at ITU CCIR levels My titles are not properly antialiased are distorted especially when I render a lot of titles This is amemory problem If the program is running out of memory it will not antalias properly Give Subtitler 25 MB of RAM and you should be fine This problem should not happen any more with Subtitler 1 4 There is no title but only a white block This is a memory problem If the program is running out of memory it will not work properly Give Subtitler
28. Traditional Chinese loadxml lang Bug Looking for a bug on Windows XP Traditional Chinese spotting tool loadxml bug Bug Fixed invisible DVD subtitles with normal video formats and text soft 0 Bug Fixed import Unicode RTF files which have a ANSI fallback character after the Unicode character 2 2 6 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 5 Feature Scrubbing when you jog with left and right arrow Feature New small timeline with waveform in and out indicators bottom red and current title indicators top red The timeline shows 8 seconds at a time and is updated on play Feature Box level can be set on title level Feature Box has a new fixed size option Feature Cavena 890 file import Feature You can move the Full Screen Tool to another screen and use it without spotting Feature You can now order and get the serial number immediately Mac OS X only Feature The PAC importer reads now DOS simplified chinese text encoding Feature Added chinese text encodings on import and export Feature The italic style information from Ledit10 files is now imported Feature Added Cheetah asc file import Feature Added spacing in Windows Feature You can now view the TIFF DVD file in the monitor window option shift click Quality Improved DVD rendering with borders Quality Improved rendering for TIFF DVD introduced native PAL and NTSC formats Change Subtitle rendering Changed spacing rendering from QuickDraw calls to in
29. continuos spotting so the titles do not have an outpoint except when there is an empty title Subtitler creates a splitting distance between the titles according to the split difference preference setting Formatted subtitles in RTF Text are interpreted as far as possible Note The importer is written with sample files If you do experience wrong imports please submit us the files Cavena 890 file import These are binary files and we do not have a specification so the parser is based on samples sent to us by users The importer reads timecode and text information and inline italic stvles It can also read some of the snecial characters french snanish and Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 75 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse inline italic styles It can also read some of the special characters french spanish and turkish Current limitations e When it cannot read a special character it returns it in a hex notation like lt 82 gt Please send us a file if you experience this best also with an idea what character should be represented e As timecode apparently a frame count is used We calculate the timecode from it but do not know where the framerate is encoded You can use the framerate of the importer but better is to send us an NTSC file if you have one we only have PAL files Cheetah asc file import This is a text file format It has a header section where all lines begin with
30. e Tools Avid Helper e Tools Export List e Tools lmport e Tools Monitor e Tools Preflight e Tools Spotting e Tools Style e Window activate the respective windows e Help Keyboard Shortcuts Spotting e Help Online Help e Help Mail to Developer Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 94 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Subtitling Resources Subtitling Online Translation Online Dictionaries Fonts Keyboard Layouts Subtitling Subtitling and Translation http www transedit se Code of good subtitling glossary history of subtitles literature internet tools European Association for studies in screen translation http www esist org The Beginner s Guide to Subtitling http armitage crinkle net karinkuru howtosub UK Office of Communication Guidance on Standards for Subtitling http www ofcom org uk codes_guidelines broadcasting tv sub_sign_audio subtitling_stnds Cinetyp Pictures of Laser subtitling hardware http www cinetyp ch Englisch Frame1 htm Middle Earth Poses Challenges to Japanese Subtitling http www lisa org archive_domain Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 95 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse newsletters 2003 1 5 ohagan html A case study of the japanese subtitling of The Lord of the Rings A Subtitle Is Not a Translation A day in the life of a subtitler http www titelbild de Press_Reports 2002
31. etc Lausanne Suisse Belle Nuit Montage There are currently two resellers e Carbonation Computing 772 Queen Street East Toronto Ontario M4M 1H4 Canada http www carbonation com e Deltech Communications Group Inc 18 Wynford Drive Suite 405 Toronto ON M3C 3S2 Canada http www deltechcommunications com e Viewcon Systems 579 Nathan Road Mongkok Kowloon Hong Kong http www viewcon com e Widmer Informatik das Apple Systemhaus Berglistrasse 6 8703 Erlenbach Switzerland http www wwe ch Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 19 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse User Guide Subtitling is a complex workflow with the intervention of translators spotters video editors DVD authoring artists and subtitling labs This workflow depends on the organization of your postproduction Belle Nuit Subtitler creates the subtitles from a subtitle list which can be created either directly within Subtitler or imported from an external file Each subtitle consists of one or two lines of text and can contain the spotting information the timecode the subtitle starts and ends The subtitles are then exported as image files on one side and as a list on the other side to be edited in a video or DVD authoring application Belle Nuit Subtitler adapts to many possible workflows e Spot and translate with QuickTime movie export titles to TIFF and edit them in Avid e Import a film subtitle list from lab a
32. exporter has two variants e over keys the subtitles over the movie This is only practical for standard video size formats e under creates a text box under the movie This is the better option for internet distribution Note If the movie is not the same than the video format size you must adapt the text size before you export the QuickTime text files QuickTime Text You can export a textfile for QuickTime text tracks With QuickTime Pro player you can import the texttrack and overlay the titles over a QuickTime movie The style is retained as much as possible title level styles using comments are supported but not style tags Keep the following in mind 1 In Subtitler add before the export an empty title at the start and at the end of Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 71 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse the movie The text track must have exactly the same duration as the video track 2 Export the Quicktime Text file 3 Import the text file into QuickTime player You have now a white movie about 60 pixels high with a text track 4 Open the video movie 5 Select all in the text movie copy then select all in the video movie then choose Edit Add Scaled The title track is now keyed over the video but on top 6 Select Movie Get Movie Properties command J select the text track size and click on adjust Place the titles to the bottom of the screen Click done and save the movie
33. flle And if the TIFF file is not available during XML import in FCP FCP decides that it is a clip and not a still You can however still reconnect the media Select all titles do the menu command File Reconnect Media select Offline and Select Files manually to avoid FCP from scanning the entire harddisk then in the file dialog set the Show popup menu to Still Image Files and Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 106 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse harddisk then in the file dialog set the Show popup menu to Still Image Files and navigate to point to the first TIFF file Select Reconnect all files with relative path to let find FCP the others You will now also see in the timeline that the property of the clip changed from Clip to Still have exported XML to Final Cut Pro but FCP 5 0 crashes There are some reported crashes reported with XML import and FCP 5 0 sometimes also 4 5 We could not yet define the reasons for the crashes but it might be related on how FCP keeps references of imported files If you have crashes on your system use the EDL CMX3600 format to export from Belle Nuit Subtitler Why do titles look correct in Subtitler but are not antialiased and look jaggy in Photoshop and Final Cut Pro What you are seeing in Photoshop when you look at RGB only is the unmultiplied image As quite a few NLE support premultiplied alpha the RGB values are unmultiplied by the alpha value You will se
34. not be displayed file 0345 tc 01 00 05 02 01 00 07 24 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days In diesem Haus hinter mir verbrachte ich mehr als 70 Tage und N chte file 0346 tc 01 00 08 03 01 00 09 20 during the war which lasted 77 days w hrend des 77 t gigen Krieges file 0347 tc 01 00 11 00 01 00 13 12 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Kein Problem Ich spreche gerne dar ber wenn es dich nicht st rt Note If you work with multiple languages absolute file reference with a hle comment is very useful You do not have to add these file comments all by hand after a spotting Use the Add File Comments command in the Spotting Tool Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 30 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Note If you work with a master list take into account that some languages need more characters for the same sentences like the others If you are already quite out of space in english you will need to abbreviate a lot to get the french text into the line Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 31 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Import Sometimes the subtitles or the spotting are already created in another program or provided by a lab Subtitler can now import more than 20 file formats and we add constantly new formats requested by Subtitler users Subtitler imports the text and the spo
35. of Roman and one line of non Roman characters for the fonts which support that for example Lucida Grande Note that character spacing is disabled for Non Roman fonts and that simple and smart wrap work only on langauge with spaces eg not in chinese and japanese On OS 9 it may work with some fonts but we do not officially support it Can use Subtitler with Final Cut Pro Yes you can It works flawlessly on DV or digital video projects 720 576 or 720 480 pixels Export your titles to TIFF RLE Drag them to your bin You may adjust the alpha settings of the clip property to get proper transparency Depending your hardware imported titles have to be rendered Like internal titles preview does flicker on 25 and 50 views but this is related how FCP shows the image on the monitor and has no influence to the final output If you have a timecoded titlelist you can import it into Titlelistconverter and export and EDL and a Subtitler file The EDL has comments so that you can batch import the video files You will not need to edit the titles manually Can use Subtitler with the older Media Composer 6 x or MCXpress 1 x Yes you can Export your titles to PICT alpha and use the option Invert existing alpha Is there a Windows version of this program Yes and Subtitler files are cross platform You need a separate license for Subtitler for Windows Why can t read my STL files Ma Sle JS ec ees lee ee a Vz EOE be ee Subtitle
36. per seconds spaces included The reading speed is used by the reading speed color indicator in the waveform and by the preflight tool e Define the interface language Currently supported are dutch english french german italian japanese spanish swedish and turkish Note Interface language setting is not supported on Windows Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 92 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Menu reference e Apple About Subtitler Windows Help About Subtitler e Apple Register Windows Help Register Use this menu to register to upgrade from offline to online license not visible when you have already an online license e Apple Preferences Windows Window Preferences File New File Open File Close File Recent File Save File Save as work as expected You can only open subtitler documents not the rendered picture files You can open Subtitler 1 1 documents but they are saved in the new XML format With the option key pressed you can try to open damages documents e File New From Template opens a new file based on a template File Save As Template allows you to save a template from the current file The template contains all style and format information but no text and no export folderpath Note If you need to delete a template The templates are saved in the folder Library Application Support Belle Nuit Montage Subtitler Templates for OS X and in System Folder Preferences
37. the currently defined style template and the medium length character In e Avoided are whenever possible o Titles with only one or two words o Only one or two words at the end of a title after a punctuation Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 88 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse The titles are all one liners to be broken with smart wrap Note This is a f rst fast automatic approach Manual editing by a craftsperson is certainly needed Other formats These is the only formats know If you have other formats please submit them to me so we can include them into the program matti belle nuit com Monitor Tool The Monitow Tool renders the title It is used to set up and verify the subtitle style You can resize the window to quarter half and full size using the Window menu You can also resize to the files exporting size The window size does not affect the quality of the exported titles The monitor sizes are set in the Preferences The monitor always displays the title of the topmost document window The monitor is not automatically updated on changes Activate the window to force rendering You can geek the fullsize output rendering by clicking into the monitor Be sure to click within the title itself If you option click you will see the alpha channel White is background black is foreground gray is some level of transparency If the file format is TIFF DVD you can now also view the TIF
38. the titles should reconnect automatically If that does not work then select all titles and then choose the menu File Reconnect and show FCP where the TIFF files are gt Note If you experience problems with crashing Final Cut Pro 5 while importing or updating XML files try using the EDL CMX3600 export instead 8 Edit the title sequence into your sequence NONA AUN Workflow Spotting in the Final Cut Pro 1 In the Subtitler create some placeholder titles a series of titles with the text Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 43 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse title001 title999 Export the titles as TIFF RLE 2 Inthe FCP import the titles Final Cut Pro automatically detects the alpha channel but not always correctly It s possible that on the same import you may have mixed alpha interpretations You can however change the alpha interpretation after import Select the clips and then the menu Modify Alpha Type Straight Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor Load your program sequence into the record monitor and add a new video track Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence In the timeline zoom in so that you can see about 15 20 seconds at once Edit the titles As you have finished the spotting record the sequence to a VHS or a DV tape Export an EDL In Subtitler import the EDL with the Import tool
39. timecode separated by a A second line contains the title number a space then the first line of text An optional third line contains a second line of text DLP Cinema This is an XML format for Texas Instrument Digital Cinema projectors It allows to embed subtitles live on a Digital Cinema projection based on a text file It follows the Subtitle Specification XML File Format for DLP CinemaTM Projection Technology Rev B No fonts are embedded reel is number one and the language is always Custom EBU STL binary You can export an EBU for exchange with a broadcast station or with a subtitle lab Style information is not retained Note EBU files have the file extension stl but you should not mix them up with the STL files for DVD Studio Pro which are text files Alata ThA CDI AWALrAARt AL FtAhblA Lana Lanan AAA AIA AA na har aan alaa Cantara Fie nanAnnn Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 68 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Note The EBU character table has been completed so that now also Eastern European charactersets can be exported or imported EBU Arte The EBU Arte format is a variant of the EBU format to support specific requirements of the european channel Arte The differences are e Subtitles are defined as Level 1 teletext e 23 lines are specified vertically and the vertical position of the first line is 20 The titles have control characters to define them as yellow You stil
40. 04_Language_International body_2002 04_language_international html On the inside track to Loserville USA strategies used in translating humour in two Finnish versions of Reality Bites http ethesis helsinki fi julkaisut hum engla pg jaskanen index html Joe Clark Media Access Subtitling http www joeclark org access subtitling Perceuse Productions http www perceuseprod ch 3a php page 49 Service de soustritrage M thodologie du suoustritrage Online translation Babel Fish Translation http world altavista com English to Chinese Dutch French German Greek Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish and reverse French to English German Greek Italian Portuguese Dutch Spanish and reverse Translate a word test up to 150 words or a webpage Online dictionaries WordReference com Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 96 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse http www wordreference com English to spanish french italian german and reverse YourDictionary com http www yourdictionary com Links to dictionaries for 280 languages Xipolis http www xipolis net Duden Worterbuch online Fonts Persian fonts http www redlers com downloadfont html Alphabetum Unicode font for ancient languagues http guindo cnice mecd es 7ejmag0042 alphaeng html Latin Greek Italic Etruscan Oscan Umbrian Faliscan Messapic Picene Gothic
41. 1 21 during the war which lasted 77 days 3 02 19 05 04 02 19 09 16 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Note RTF files can be imported directly and italic style information is imported If the file is doc then open it first in TextEdit change it to RTF or text only and save it as textfile before importing to Subtitler Closed Captioning This cuefile has the format most closed captioning software use Timecode lines are starting with TC for a start and ERASE for an closing time If no closing time is specified the closing time is the opening time of the next title There must be a closing time after the last title TC10 07 49 22 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days TC10 07 53 19 during the war which lasted 77 days ERASE10 07 57 00 CMX 3600 This format supports CMX 3600 EDL and retains the clip comments to create the filenames of the titles The parser uses relaxed rules so it may also read other EDL formats Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 78 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Use this format if you want to create a subtitler file with spotting from an existing EDL spotting EBU STL Binary This format is a specification of the European Broadcast Union http www ebu ch Search for tech 3264 Specification of the EBU Subtitling Data Exchange Format Imported is the text horizontal alignment and italics T
42. 7 11 2006 page 42 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 1 In Final Cut Pro export a QuickTime movie of your sequence Note You should not export a Final Cut Pro movie menu File Export Quicktime Movie with a FCP icon but export a Quicktime movie menu File Export Using Quicktime Conversion with a native Quicktime icon 2 In Subtitler open a new document define the video format and the file format TIFF RLE 3 Import the movie Set the Framerate You may want to set an offset to have identical timecode with the Final Cut Pro Sequence Spot and translate in Subtitler Use the Preflight tool to check your spotting Render and export the titles Transfer the Spotting to Final Cut Pro o FCP 2 0 4 0 Export to EDL CMX3600 with the Export List tool In Final Cut Pro import the EDL Select all titles in the sequence Select the menu File Reconnect and show FCP where the TIFF files are You may have to set the popup menu in the file dialog from Video Files to Picture Files to be able to select the TIFF files 5 Final Cut Pro automatically detects the alpha channel but not always correctly It s possible that on the same import you may have mixed alpha interpretations You can however change the alpha interpretation after import Select the clips and then the menu Modify Alpha Type Straight o FCP 4 1 1 Export to XML with the Export List tool 2 In Final Cut Pro import the XML 3 Normally
43. Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 8 Program to spot edit and render subtitles for video editing DVD authoring and digital cinema Translators can spot directly with a QuickTime movie and translate precisely The subtitles can then be imported to Avid Media Composer Avid Xpress Avid DS and Final Cut Pro for editing The same subtitles can be sent also to Adobe Encore DVD Apple DVD Studio Pro Sonic Producer and Sonic Scenarist for authoring The subtitles can also be used for live subtitling on Texas Instruments Digital Cinema projectors Belle Nuit Subtitler frees the video editors from repetitive work and from typo errors Try Belle Nuit Subtitler now The offline version is free and can be downloaded immediately In thes buskdineg behind me l speni over T nights and moat days Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Content Features Quotes References Specifications Download Installation License Use Guide Creating Subtitles Spotting Languages Import Export Video Editing Avid DS Final Cut Pro DVD Authoring DVD Studio Pro Sonic Producer Sonic Scenarist Digital Cinema Reference Guide Document window Subtitler Documentation 13 14 16 19 20 25 29 31 32 34 35 41 42 47 50 52 52 53 54 55 55 27 11 2006 page 2 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Style section Export section Movie section
44. Belle Nuit Montage Subtitler Templates for Classic e File Import Opens the Import Tool e File Export The selected titles will be rendered and exported as image files If there is no selection only the title at the cursor position will be rendered e File Export List see Tools Exporr List Caution Existing files with the same name as the image file will be overwritten e File Export Other Opens the Export Tool e File Page Setup and Print works as expected to print a title list e File Quit e Edit Undo Edit Redo 100 level multiple undo for the text editing until to the last saving No undo for formatting e Edit Cut Edit Copy Edit Paste Edit Clear work as expected in the editfield of the document e Edit Select Title selects the entire text of the current title e Edit Select All selects all titles e Edit Find Edit Find Again Edit Replace You can use the shortcut n for a new line e Spotting Play Forward e Spotting Stop Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 93 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse e Spotting Play Backward e Spotting Mark In e Spotting Mark Out e Spotting New Title e Spotting Split Title e Spotting Join Titles e Spotting Mark Title e Spotting Update Title e Spotting Sort by Timecode Sorts the selected titles by timecode e Spotting Increase Waveform Scales vertically up the audio waveform data e Spotting Reduce Waveform Scales vertically down the audio waveform data
45. F DVD image while you option shift click on it In the Preferences you can set title safe a background picture or the still of the actual movie and the size of the monitor tool Available sizes are 25 50 100 and Original pixel size Preflight Tool You can now test the subtitler document before you export titles or metadata The tests concern spotting filenames and text The results are shown in a table and you can doubleclick the item to go directly to the problematic title and change it The test options are e Titles without TC Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 89 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse e Titles not chronological e Overlapping titles e Short and long durations e Duplicate filenames e Empty lines e Text length e Reading speed Spotting Tool The Spotting Tool adds some complex functions which are needed to manage the spotting of subtitle documents The Tools applies by default to a new file so you can check what you have done if you do not want that uncheck Create New File e Offset Timecode Offset all timecodes or only from selected titles You can enter positive and negative frame numbers up to 99 or positive and negative timecode values Applying an offset of O can sometimes be useful to fix badly formatted timecode e Change Framerate Allows you to change the framerate of the spotting You can preserve the duration in time or the framecount After importing a titl
46. Iberian Celtiberian old English Hebrew Sanskrit Runic Ogham Ugaritic Old Persianm Nordic Cardo Unicode font for ancient languagues http scholarsfonts net cardofnt html Latin Greek Hebrew Titus Cyberbit Basic Unicode Font supporting numberous languages http titus fkidg 1 uni frankfurt de indexe htm Fontworld http ananas ErntsnulAl nanma fEannta Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 97 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse www fontworld com fonts bfaces html Arabic Persian Hebrew Cyrillic Central Eastern European Baltic Greek Turkish and Vietnamese commercial fonts University of Oregoin Yamada Language Center font archive http babel uoregon edu yamada fonts html American Sign Language Arabic Armenian Bengali Burmese Cambodian Celtic Cherokee Chinese Coptic Cree Croatian Czech Egyptian Old English Esperanto Gaelic Georgian Germanic Grek Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Icelandic Inuit Inuktitut Japanese Korean Lao Latvian Macedonian Mayan Persian Phonetic alphabets Polish Runic Russian Slovak Tamil Thai Tibetan Turkish Vietnamese Omniglot http www omniglot com fonts index htm Deseret Egyptian Etruscan Mesa Mongolian Shavian Thai Vinca Agfa Monotype http www agfamonotype co uk Professional quality commercial fonts for many languages Ancient Fonts from Jack Kilmon for scholars academics an
47. S X e Power Macintosh e Minimum 5 MB disc space for application and about 50 KB for every rendered title e OS X 10 2 or newer e Note Subtitler runs on a Intel Macintosh with the built in Rosetta Stone Macintosh Classic e Power Macintosh e Minimum 25 MB RAM for the application e Minimum 5 MB disc space for application and about 50 KB for every rendered title e MacOS 8 6 9 2 Note Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 1 for MacOS 8 1 is still available on the download page Windows e Minimum 5 MB disc space for application and about 50 KB for every rendered title e Windows XP Professional e QuickTime 5 0 or later Note Windows 2000 is not oficially supported but works for several users Download Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 8 Macintosh OS X http www belle nuit com download subtitler1 78 dmg 3 6 MB Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 13 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Macintosh OS 8 6 9 2 http www belle nuit com download subtitler1 78c sit hgx 3 3 MB Windows http www belle nuit com download subtitler1 78w zip 2 9 MB Macintosh and site licences from 1 0 1 6 work with 1 7 You may need to reregister the programm however if you update Printable Documentation http www belle nuit com download subtitler_english pdf PDF 130 pages 2 5 MB TitleListConverter TitleListConverter is now included as Import tool into Subtitler If you hav
48. Translating Translate your titles in a second window in Belle Nuit Subtitler Export the titles In the Avid select the placeholder titles in the Bin and do a Batch Import Show the batch import tool the location of the new titles Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 37 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Note By default titles are numbered on a 0000 tif format You will be safer however if you name the titles in Subtitler explicitely with the hle comment This will allow you to add additional titles in corrections without creating a confusion on the filenames Workflow External spotting The spotting and the translation is provided as a file by an external service bureau In this case you import the file into the Subtitler file 1 2 3 Import the external subtitle file into Subtitler with the Import Tool Add the formatting and export the titles as TIFF RLE Export an EDL with the Export List Tool and import it into EDLManager and transfer it to the Avid The title sequence will consist in a series of offline clips with the tape name corresponding to the title number Edit the title sequence into your program sequence Import all titles into a new bin with the options 601 non square 601 Levels Invert Existing Alpha and Deselect Import Sequential File Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor o On a Media Composer sort the titles by name se
49. You can always override the automatic wrapping with a manual return Text is only wrapped if it exceedes the size limit Titles are limited to two lines A third line will not be shown Save your document LE PA ET hee EE ee eS ee E za ana Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 22 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse While the preview section may be appropriate for fast editing you may want to have a closer 8 0 Monitor look to the rendered title Choose the Tools Monitor menu The monitor displays the rendered title ase subtitles In the Preferences you can resize the monitor to quarter half or full size picture The displayed i i size is 4 3 or 16 9 depending on your video peq automati format setting You can also display the Safe Title area and choose a background picture The monitor is updated whenever you reactivate the window You can always have a peek to the native non square title image While you click in the monitor window you will see the native title image While you option click you will see the Alpha Channel of the title Title level styles The formatting in the style section is global It is however possible to change the formatting both on title level as on character level To change the formatting on title level you add a style comment This allows you to set a title in italics align on left and even change the color To change the formatting on character level you use styl
50. a bold yellow title with 100 video yellow Note You can only set the color of the title Border shadow and box color are global for the document Note Do not use spaces within the paranthesis The style vertical offset comment allows you to offset an individual title An offset might be needed because of the presence of a lower third title or of another important topic in the picture The keyword has a parameter in paranthesis which defines the amount of pixels to offset If you want to go up the parameter must be negative There must be no space between the keyword and the parameter In this example the second title will be offset 36 pixels upwards Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 63 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days style vertical 36 during the war which lasted 77 days Box level can be set on title level Use the style comment style boxlevel n where n represents the percentage This way you can make a title with a difficult background more readable In this example the second title has a box at 50 level In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days style boxlevel 50 during the war which lasted 77 days The Timecode comment tc has the format tc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 where the first timecode is the inpoint and the second the outpoint Timecode comments are created automatically when
51. aces between timecode values 27 6 5 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 2 Feature Added EBU Arte export format Feature Added Fullscreen Tool for soft subtitling Feature Character level italics are recognized in PAC files Feature Added style attributes to STL Text export Bug Fixed Avid Helper tool on Windows Note that you need to click the timeline window after clicking on Run Bug Repaired reading of illegal characters in XML 1hA 1hF Bug 29 97DF and NDF timecodes are now calculated correctly from the QT movie Bug PAC files without spotting FFFFOOOO get imported now Bug EBU exporter exports correctly english and german quotation marks and long hyphens Bug Fixed crash when TIFF file is already open by another application Bug Fixed property box style was not saved with the file 10 4 5 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 1 Cosmetic Improved render time display Bug Single title did not export correctly Bug PAC import TC between 50 minutes and 1 hour are interpreted correctly Bug Fonts are now sorted alphabetically and correctly selected on Windows Bug More tolerant on typing in the Register Windows Bug Fixed window refreshes on Windows and Classic Bug Fixed left and right arrow not controlling movie bug on Windows Bug Fixed prevented sync spotting on subtitles with file comments 28 3 5 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 Feature Belle Nuit Subtitler for Windows Feature Added TIFF DVD export Feature Avi
52. antitling import trim lines and TC formatting Bug Fixed showing up of empty documents when Scantitling import was done Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 117 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Bug Fixed Cinetyp Timecode format no period after frames but eriod after title number Bug When you doubleclick in the preflight tool it jumps again to the title with the problem Bug Working on registration bug on czech windows XP systems Bug Handled NilObjectException missing timecode on STL export Bug Removed Recent Files Bug Improved DLP Cinema export format Removed font reference Arial is used added version parameter and filtering of illegal XML characters Style attributes size color alpha and position are supported Font effect is either shadow border or none On title level italic underlined and vertical position is supported Wrapping must be commited Bug On split titles do not jump any more Bug On split of titles mit file comments the second title gets a new name Bug In the Preflight tool simple and smart wrapping is now honoured on long lines In this case 190 of the line length is allowed Bug Fixed header separator bug in import format Filmtext studio Bug XML Error on opening 1 7 4 subtitler files Bug Relaxed STL Text import allows for tabs as separator Bug Fixed style tags over two lines Bug Relaxed Application support folder Bug Warning when prefix star
53. d Helper Tool Feature Export Tool Feature Import Tool TitleListConverter now integrated in Subtitler Feature Preflight Tool Cantina Cnattinn Taal Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 122 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Feature Spotting Tool Feature Style Tool Feature Cinecanvas Texas Instrument export Feature Cinetyp TimeCode import and export Feature Cinetyp TimeCode2 import Feature Scantitling import export Feature Sonic SST Producer import export Feature Sonic SST Scenarist import export Feature Spruce Maestro export Feature Subrip impoer export Feature Substation Alpha import export Feature STL Text and Quicktime export now support alignment on title level Feature EBU export now supports Eastern European characters Feature Prefix field for in export section Feature Added Remove Movie menu command Feature Movie still in the monitor Feature Improved Box Feature Added T key to mark current title Feature Duration field for spotting Feature Added Beep after exporting Interface Enabled E key in spotting for mark in and R key for mark out Interface Improved find window select all autofill you can use n for newline Interface Monitor now also simulates DVD subtitles Interface Exporting titles is no threaded so you can export more than one document at the same time Interface Turkish interface Quality Improved DVD rendering Performance Improved
54. d layouts http www aramaicnt org HTML ARTICLES AramaicKeyboards html Vietnamese keyboard layout http news2 ils uec ac jp 7eherr Keyboard Builder http homepage mac com poorant79 software kb html Online Keyboard Layout Generator http wordherd com keyboards Propose a link Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 100 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Belle Nuit Subtitler FAQ e Installing o Where can get a demo version of Subtitler o Every time launch Subtitler it is offline have to register again and again the windows of username and serial number are always empty o Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 does not work with my OS 9 It returns the error 1010 o Where can I get a receipt for my license need it for the accounts e Compatibility o Can use Subtitler with non Roman character sets chinese japanese arabic hebrew persian o Can use Subtitler with Final Cut Pro o Can use Subtitler with the older Media Composer 6 x or MCXpress 1 x o Is there a Windows version of this program e Importing o Why can t read my STL files Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 101 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse o Why is the textfile import not readable e Spotting o During spotting stepping forward doesn t properly work Sometimes works for 2 frames and then doesn t work anymore until JKL i
55. d students http www historian net files htm Aramic Carolingian Etruscan Gothic Greek Lachicsh Ostraca Crsive Paleohebrew Mesha Stele Latin Moabite Phoenician Roman Samaritan Siloam and others Cannibal http www cannibal gr Commercial greek fonts Latinits fonts http web syr edu 7edhmills caes ClassicalFonts html Ceanl nand I atin Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 98 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Greek and Latin Galilee Greek Font http faculty bbc edu rdecker galilee htm with bold and italic styles Hebrew Fonts http fonti come2us co il fonts htm many modern styles SIL Summer Institute of Linguistics http www sil org Roman Cyrillic Phonetic Latin Nastaliq Biblical Thai Greek Hebrew Yi Keyboard Layouts University of Oregoin Yamada Language Center http babel uoregon edu yamada easy_fonts html How to write Spanish French Portuguese German Danish Norwegian Finnish and Gaelic Irish and Scottish with the US keyboard layout Arabic and Farsi keyboard layout stickers http www aramedia com kbstkr25 htm Etruscan Hebrew Persian Romanian keyboard layouts http www redlers com downloadkeyboard html Slovanian and Cyrillic keyboard layouts http slavicpublishers com slavjanskij Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 99 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Syriac and Aramaic keyboar
56. e Sonic SST Text export for Sonic Producer and Sonic SST Graphic Export for Sonic Scenarist Feature Added Remove Movie menu command Feature Added TIFF DVD export Interface Enabled E key in spotting for mark in and R key for mark out Bug Fixed two line export of EBU STL files Bug Fixed timeline graphic delay when Offset is not zero Bug Fixed jumps to the beginning when you change from movie to titlelist and are between two titles It now jumps to the title before 25 10 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 6 2 Feature Italian Soanish and Japanese interface Feature Avid DS Export Feature Quicktime Text track export Bug Fixed export to EBU with accents Bug The out point of the tc comment is no correctly the frame after the title 7 9 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 6 1 Feature A and S key shortcuts Feature Added Formats 1080i and 720i Bug Movie does not jump any more to the beginning of a movie in sync mode when the title has no timecode Bug Subtitler does not crash any more when preferences folder cannot be created Bug Improved undo on update title command Bug Subtitler does not crash any more when titles are not in order Documentation updated 25 7 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 6 Feature Style tags Danta Chula CAlA nnamanannt Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 124 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Feature Style Color comment Feature Spotting timeline Feature U
57. e This is an advanced feature that requires an experienced Avid editor The Avid Helper tool allows you to automate the editing of the subtitles into the clips imported with the EDL This tool automates the editing of the subtitles with a keyboard macro S T ESC B S ESC repeated for each subtitle Import the EDL of the subtitles and edit it into track V2 or higher of your film Import subtitles in a new Bin Clear the timeline and create a sequence all subtitles with all subtitles Load the sequence all subtitles into the source monitor activate track V1 only and go to the beginning 5 Load your film into the record monitor Connect V1 from source to V2 and activate V2 only 6 Type the number of subtitles into this window Place the timeline cursor before the first subtitle and click on the record monitor 8 Click on the run button of this window AUNG N Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 66 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Note You may need to adjust the pause between edits if the Avid is not responsive enough Note The tool will not work if you make subtitles without a minimal distance of 1 frame between the subtitles Note This tool does only work correctly if the keyboard settings for the keys B S T and ESC are the default Avid setting Note This tool communicates via the keyboard It can be disturbed if Avid saves automatically during the execution We recommend therefor
58. e Mayor Fernand Melgar Thomas Sch rer Theo Stich Yves Yersin HUBERT SELBY JR It I Be Better Tomorrow Michael W Dean IL LEGAL Bernard Weber JOHANN CRUIJFF EN UN MOMENTO DADO Ramon Gieling KROKUS AS LONG AS WE LIVE Reto Caduff LIVING RIGHTS Duco Tellegen LYNX Franz Reichle MA FAMILLE AFRICAINE Thomas Th mena DE MECHE AVEC LE FEU Roland Pellarin MIND AND LIFE Franz Reichle MONTE GRANDE Franz Reichle MNII DAIN ET ACC Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 10 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse DU PAIN ET DES JEUX Roland Pellarin PROFIL BAS Nathalie Fl ckiger RICHE DE LA CULTURE DES AUTRES Roland Pellarin SEOUL TRAIN Jim Butterworth with 16 subtitle tracks SI PENSAVA DI RESTARE POCO Francesca Cangemi Daniel von Aarburg STEPHAN NADE L HR Z RICH Gaby Sch dler TOTALLY PERSONAL Nedzad Begovic Bosnian representative for Oscar 2006 TRAUMZEIT Franz Reichle LE TYRAYATTAM UN RITUEL MIS EN SCENE Franck Schneider DIE VOGELPREDIGT Clemens Klopfenstein WANAKAM Thomas Isler DAS WISSEN NMA LICH EM Tora DAIALIA Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 11 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse VOM HEILEN Franz Reichle Propose a link Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 12 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Specifications Macintosh O
59. e files will have names like 0001 tif Caution Exporting will overwrite any existing file with the same name You may override the naming scheme using the comment function explained below Any title with a beginning line of file myfilename will be saved under this name with the extension tif or pct Note You define in the preferences if the file extensios are tiff or tif respectively pct or pict e Prefix Adds an optional prefix to the file names The Movie section Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 59 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse You can import a movie menu File Import Movie to spot subtitles with Belle Nuit Subtitler The movie is shown as half size of the video format You can play the movie set in and out points define new titles and trim split and join existing titles When you are in synchronize mode the Preview and the Titlelist are updated while the movie plays On the other side the movie is updated when you select a title in the Titlelist Set the Framerate of the movie The framerate is independent of the actual framerate of the imported movie which may be reduced like in the case of an MPEG4 file You can set a Timecode Offset For all new spotted titles this offset is added to the movie position to create the timecode comment Choose this offset at the beginning Note that for STL export you can set the preferences to ignore that offset The Synchronize checkbox synchronize
60. e mainheight integer Window height optional e exportformat string PICT PICT alpha TIFF TIFF RLE or TIFF DVD optional e style optional Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 111 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse o standard string PAL PAL 16 9 NTSC HD etc o framerate string o height integer o width integer o widthreal integer square pixel width o interlaced boolean o antialiasing integer must be 4 o font string o size integer o spacing integer o leading integer o bold boolean o italic boolean o underline boolean o halign integer O left 1 center 2 right o valign integer O top 1 center 2 bottom o left integer o right integer o vertical integer o wrapmethod integer O no wrap 1 simple wrap 2 smart wrap o textcolor color o textalpha real 1 0 is opaque o textsoft integer o bordercolor color o borderalpha real o bordersoft integer o borderwidth integer o shadowcolor color o shadowalpha real o shadowsoft color o shadowx integer o shadowy integer o rectcolor color o rectalpha real o rectsoft color Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 112 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse o rectform integer 1 1 box 2 2 box 3 fixed e folderpath string e prefix string e moviepath string e movieoffset string formatted timecode pagesetup string titlelist string Titellist format The titlelist i
61. e problems to get the page or to get the file downloaded please drop a message to matti belle nuit com Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 14 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Installation Macintosh OS X The downloaded file is a disk image Drag the Program to the Applications folder Macintosh Classic Expand the downloaded file with Stuffit Expander Install it wherever you want it on your harddisk As with any installation of Macintosh software you may want to rebuild the desktop to have the program and document icons properly displayed holding option command on restart Windows There is no installer provided Unzip the archive and drag the application to the program folder of your harddisk You need to have installed Quicktime 5 0 or later to use Subtitler You get QuickTime at the Apple website http www apple com quicktime download Interface Language You can choose your program language in the Apple Preferences menu Choose between bosnian dutch english french german italian japanese spanish swedish and turkish Menus are updated immediately windows are updated when they are opened the next time Note This is a Macintosh only feature The interface language is always english on the Windows platform Note As we are constantly adding new features it may happen that some features may not have been translated yet in all languages In this case you will only see the english text
62. e tags like in HTML This allows you to set an individual word in italic Example In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days style italic 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days style left No problem lt i gt love lt i gt to talk about these things if you don t mind Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 23 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse For complete information about style comments and style tags see the Comments chapter File names By default the file names for the subtitles are serial numbers from 0001 to the number of your titles with the extension tif or pct It is the number you see in the preview section While this works for simple subtitling this may create some problems with complex workflows You may need to insert titles when you refine the subtitling For this case it is also possible to create an absolute file name reference using the file comment Example file 0345 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days file 0345a 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days file 0346 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Spotting information By default a subtitle has no spotting You can add a spotting information manually by adding TimeCodes for start and end with the tc comment This information will then be used to place the subtitler in your edi
63. e that in the Preview application the antialiasing looks fine In the compositing when you set the alpha property right the titles will look right For example in Final Cut Pro if you select the clip in the sequence check the menu Modify Alpha Type the alpha type you have now is probably Black it should be Straight Select all subtitles and set Modify Alpha Type Straight Why is the transparency of my titles in Final Cut Pro absent wrong Final Cut Pro does not have an option to select the transparency of imported still files It makes some guesswork and often guesses false and even inconsistely It s possible that on the same import you may have mixed alpha interpretations You can however change the alpha interpretation after import Select the clips and then the menu Modify Alpha Type Straight have imported two hours of subtitles into a Final Cut Pro project Only the first 25 minutes are rendered and the other part requires a render Why do I need to render Depending on your hardware configuration you may or may not need to render your titles But even in a realtime system the number of titles can go beyond the limit of Final Cut Pro If you have a lot of titles some may not want to play Increase cache or render some of the titles 1 Go to the menu Final Cut Pro System Settings Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 107 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 2 Open the Memory amp Cache tab 3
64. e to set the autosave interval enough high Go to the Settings Bin and duplicate the Bin setting Set Auto Save interval to 10 minutes Set Inactivity period to 30 seconds Set Force Auto Save to 60 minutes Finally save just before you start the macro Note If you do not have an online license the tool works only for 10 titles Export List Tool The export functions now have been placed from the submenus into a windows This allows to define options depending on the list formats First you define the Subtitler document which you want to export Then you define the List Format Then you have some options depending on the format e Text Encoding DOS Latin MacRoman UTF 8 Unicode Unicode RTF and Windows Latin1 Note with Unicode RTF the textfile is wrapped into an RTF file with Unicode textencoding Line Ending Macintosh CR Unix LF or Windows CRLF e Apply Offset Add or substract an offset to the defined timecodes By default the negative value of the Offset in the document is entered For some DVD authoring systems it may be better to export absolute values from the movie than the timecode e tapeoffset STL Graphic and STL Text Check this option if you use the tape timecode uncheck it if you use the absolute position in the movie e Folder Path Sonic Scenarist You must enter the path to the exported subtitles manually Then you click first on the Preview button and then on the Export button The following fo
65. eature requests Where can get a demo version of Subtitler Just go to the Download section of this site and download the Belle Nuit Subtitler application The application is functional in offline license mode that means export is limited to 10 titles Try the program out and when you are ready go to the Kagi site and buy the online license Every time launch Subtitler it is offline have to register again and again the windows of username and serial number are always empty The keyfile was not saved On OS X you need an account with administrative rights to save the keyfile Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 does not work with my OS 9 It returns the error 1010 We get some but very few reports on this It looks like you disabled too much on your system folder Try on a clean system Or use Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 1 Report us these errors so that we can narrow them Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 103 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Where can get a receipt for my license need it for the accounts If you buy through Kagi then you need to get the receipt there Go to https secure kagi com cgi bin WebObjects PQ and enter the details of your license You will need at least your email and your credit card information You can then get a printable receipt Can use Subtitler with non Roman character sets chinese japanese arabic hebrew persian On OS X yes You can even have one line
66. ehind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 02 00 0003 06 during the war which lasted 77 days Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 87 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 02 00 0004 06 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Note We do not have yet a sample f le with titles of more than one line Titracode The Titracode program writes textfiles with tags starting with a period All subtitles start after the keyword DONNEES Subtitler recognized the tags NUM_ST DEBUT_ST FIN_ST and TEXTE The other tags are ignored The spotting information is in feet and frames currently recognized as 35mm 1 feet 16 frames Feet Frames notation DONNEES NUM_PLAN 2 NUM_ST 0002 DEBUT_ST 02899 01 FIN_ST 02904 12 TEXTE In this building behind me spent TEXTE over 70 nights and most days NUM_PLAN 3 NUM_ST 0003 DEBUT_ST 02905 00 FIN_ST 02908 10 during the war which lasted 77 days Transscript Import The transscript format in the import tool is a convenient way to quickly break a transscription or a translation into titles The transscription file is expected to be a simple continuous textfile with one convention Changes of the speakers are separated by double returns The text is broken into the subtitles using the following rules e Each speaker begins a new subtitle e The subtitle is filled up two lines with entire words The number of character depends on
67. elist or after spotting you may need sometimes to translate the framerate of the timecode For example you get a list in NTSC you want to use in PAL change from 29 97 DF to 25 with constant time Or you have a list in 24fps but the film is now running at 24 fps change from 24 to 25 with constant framecount Note Calculation with constant time is subject to rounding errors Note The framerates in this tool are independent from the framerate set in the movie section e Add or remove file comments If you have started without file comments you can still add them for the entire document e Update timecode If you have spotted a subtitler file then changed the spotting in your Avid you can update the subtitler file Export the Avid spotting as EDL import it into Subtitler and use it as reference The tool will update the timecodes of all titles which have the same file comment Remove unreferenced titles If you check this option titles not appearing in the reference list are removed and the list is sorted by timecode Style Tool The Style Tools adds some operations on the style and rendering of the titles The Tools Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 90 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse applies by default to a new file so you can check what you have done if you do not want that uncheck Create New File e Copy style Copy the style from one document to another e Wrap Use Commit to fix the curre
68. end strongly to use file comments You can add them for an entire file with the Spotting Tool e Video format The following formats are supported Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 57 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse The widescreen 16 9 option scales the fonts so that they show properly on 16 9 projects You change the format of the document at any time but changing may affect text wrapping You may also have multiple documents open with different video formats at the same time The PAL DVD and NTSC DVD formats give the best quality results for title rendering for DVDs because they render to square pixels Antialiasing is on if Textsoft is bigger than O The HDV 1080i video format is meant for projects that are mastered natively in FCP The subtitles are non square pixels 1440 1080 for a real width of 1920 pixel You do not need a special format for HDV 720p Just use HD 720p e Export format o BMP DVD saves an RGB file run length encoded with key colors white red blue and black for DVD authoring on PC systems The meaning of the Dect 22 22 ee I a Ve EESTE ONT LEI SEE 2 2 ee NIS ner en DE A I oo eu Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 58 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse keys is defined in the STL and SST files you export You may need to adapt the color palette manually in the DVD authoring program o PICT saves the title as RGB file and as a separate alpha f
69. er While it is possible to import STL textfiles directly into DVD Studio Pro the approach with Subtitler has some advantages e Better quality of the titles e No font rendering bugs that DVD Studio Pro 2 has with some fonts eg with Arial Narrow double ff show as simple f spaces before the capital A are removed We following instructions apply both to DVD Studio Pro 2 3 and 4 You cannot import subtitles into DVD Studio Pro 1 and 1 5 1 Select text color to white level 100 soft 1 2 Select border color to black level 100 width 4 soft O Note It is important that the border is not too fine It would be exagerated for normal video subtitles but because of the lack of antialiasing it needs to be thick Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 50 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse to avoid flickering 3 Set the video format to PAL DVD or NTSC DVD 4 Set the file format to TIFF DVD This will create a TIFF with key colors white red blue black 5 Export the subtitles 6 Export an STL Graphic file into the same folder as the rendered subtitles 7 Import the STL file into DVD Studio Pro Select a subtitle track control click on it and select Import on the context menu The import will replace all titles on the track Note You cannot import from the file menu You must use control click on the subtitle track 8 Transparencies and colors may be wrong Select the first title in the timeline and
70. er Documentation 27 11 2006 page 84 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse LINO3 In this building behind me spent LINO3 over 70 nights and most days 0002 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 10 LINO3 during the war which lasted 77 days Subrip import export Subtitler can now import and export Subrip srt files Substation alpha import export Subtitler can now import and export Substation alpha ssa files Formatting is ignored 1 02 18 45 17 02 18 48 04 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 2 02 18 48 14 02 18 51 21 during the war which lasted 77 days 3 02 19 05 04 02 19 09 16 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Note If the file is an RTF or a Word file convert it before with TextEdit to text only Tempo Tempo is a subtitling program from Cavena A new title starts with a line with The first lines contains title number start end duration and format instructions The second and third line contain the title text Note Be sure to import a text file and not a Microsoft Word file Note Cavena exports cip files These files are actually RTF files Open them in TextEdit make them Text only save them then as textfiles You can then use TitleListConverter to read the textfile 00001 TAB 10 07 49 22 TAB 10 07 53 15 TAB 00 00 03 18 TAB J F LLOOOOODO TAB C In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 00002 TAB 10 07
71. erences Belle Nuit Subtitler is used in 48 countries Angola Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bosnia Brazil Canada China Congo Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador France Germany Haiti Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Netherlands Norway Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Russian Federation Serbia and Montenegro South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan United Arab Erimates United Kingdom United States and Uruguay Production houses using Belle Nuit Subtitler Films made using Belle Nuit Subtitler Production houses using Belle Nuit Subtitler Accent Media MCLean VA Angry Monk Productions Zurich Switzerland any ma K snacht Switzerland Bandwidth Cape Town South Africa Boheme Net Films Gen ve Switzerland Climage Lausanne Switzerland Edit Dudes Malm Sweden Egg Media Industries North Bondi Australia Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 7 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Foundation Donava FilmsUtrecht Netherlands Freih ndler Basel Switzerland Fridthjof Film Kopenhagen Denmark Hugo Film Z rich Switzerland Intervista Digital Media GmbH Hamburg Germany Mischief Films Wien Austria Out There News United Kingdom Phase One Productions Hollywood CA Perceuse Productions Gen ve Switzerland Franz Reichle Zurich Switzerland SAGA filmproduction com
72. es to the Avid to edit the timeline for details see the Avid Helper Tool chapter in the Reference Guide Workflow Spotting in the Avid 1 10 11 12 In the Subtitler create some placeholder titles a series of titles with the text title001 title999 Export the titles as TIFF RLE Import all titles into a new bin with the options 601 non square 601 Levels Invert Existing Alpha and Deselect Import Sequential File Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor o On a Media Composer sort the titles by name select them all and shift control drag them to the Composer window o On an Xpress sort the titles by name select them all and drag them to the timeline Load your program sequence into the Composer monitor and add a new video track Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence Inthe timeline display Sample Plot and zoom in so that you can see about 15 20 seconds at once You can now do your spotting with only keystrokes Play to in point JKL Mark in 1 Play to out point JKL Mark out O Toggle monitor ESC Go to next title S Edit overwrite B 8 Toggle monitor ESC and so on NOM 2rwDnN As you have finished the spotting digital cut the sequence to a VHS Scripting Write down your dialogs using the defined borders in the spotting Use Belle Nuit Subtitler or use a Word Processor
73. g the picture files and the titlelist you import them into your video editing system This part depends on your editing system Following a list of instructions for some systems e Avid Media Composer Symphony and Xpress e Avid DS e Final Cut Pro Using Subtitler with Avid Belle Nuit Subtitler creates TIFF files which are edited in the Avid as Realtime Matte Key Effects You can export the spotting from Subtitler to Avid via a CMX3600 EDL Note You need to install EDLManager to be able to read and export EDLs with the Avid Depending on your subtitling workflow there are various methods to make work Avid and Subtitler together Spotting in Belle Nuit Subtitler e Spotting in the Avid e External spotting This document will also discuss some special cases e Making corrections e Creating and additional language Media Composer 7 x Xpress 2 x Media Composer 6 x MCXpress 1 x Avid ona Windows PC Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 35 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Tape names start over after 200 titles e Avid EDL Manager does not support more than 1000 titles Workflow Spotting in Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 12 13 In Avid export a QuickTime movie of your sequence You have to choose a codec which can be played in realtime without hardware DV MPEG1 MPEG4 In Subtitler open a new document define the video format and the file format TIFF RLE
74. gnal and are therefore also fully antialiased They are also absolutely frame accurate However you will not be able to turn the subtitles off DVD subtitles are overlays of the video stream The user can select a subtitle stream of his language The frame accuracy depends on the DVD player it can vary in practice in practice up to 4 frames Also the vertical position is not very accurate If the DVD is 16 9 and the TV monotor 4 3 the DVD player will letterbox the video stream but not the subtitles so part of the subtitle may be in the black The overlay is defined by a reduced color system The subtitle file has four key colors On most authoring systems these are white blue red and black but some support also four gray scale values As one color is the title mostly black and one color is the background mostly white this leaves you with two colors red and blue for either features like border and background rectangle or for a simulation of antialiasing You cannot have full antialiasing The subtitle file can map these four colors to one of 16 palette colors and to an transparency which is called contrast 0 15 The colors of the palette itself is however defined in the program itself and not by the subtitle file This means especially that for simulations of antialiasing you have to edit the palette of the DVD authoring programm manually Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 48 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne
75. hardware configuration you may or may not need to render your titles But even in a realtime svstem the number of titles can ao bevond the limit of Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 45 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse titles But even in a realtime system the number of titles can go beyond the limit of Final Cut Pro If you have a lot of titles some may not want to play Increase cache or render some of the titles 1 Go to the menu Final Cut Pro System Settings 2 Open the Memory amp Cache tab 3 The Still Chache slider defines the amount of memory you have for subtitles FCP uses about 1 1 2 MB per subtitle on standard definition EDL Importing Problems Users have reported problems importing EDLs from Subtitler These EDLs have timecodes of 10 00 00 00 and more Also we got reports with XML files from sequences with a duration of more than 10 hours Tests with FCP3 and FCP4 show us that Final Cut Pro cannot deal with very long sequences The limit seems to be somewhere between 10 and 11 hours EDL with late timecodes fall in these problem because on import the sequences is created first with a start of zero hours There is no workaround You should not use timecode values of more than 10 00 00 00 if you intend to import into Final Cut Pro If the timecode comments are already created then you can select all titles and offset them with the menu Spotting Offset Timecode If you have 1000 subtitle
76. he system Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 4 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Quotes on Belle Nuit Subtitler After using your software for one day have to say that this is one of the coolest film tools I ve ever used even after eight years of operating Inferno An incredible time saver never thought subtitling would be fun and with your software it actually is Brad Scott Just a quick note to let you know that your Belle Nuit Subtitler program was a great help Nicely designed and saved a tremendous amount of time I d highly recommend it to others David Edwards I ve been using your registered Subtitler for the Mac and love it What used to take me three days of mind numbing work now takes me less than a day Thanks for making your program available and so robust It s awesome Kevin Triplett Austin Texas have to tell you love this programme was able to subtitle half an hour of material and produce a finished tape in just two or three hours Paul Eedle from Out There News We just finished our first DVD in Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 It worked like a charm with the new features It looked terrific Duco Tellegen from Foundation Dovana Films Thank you have been searching for a program like this for some time This seems like it is in fact going to save a lot of time Michael Strout from http www phaseoneprodu ctions com Belle Nuit has made an industry out of
77. his format has often the extension stl Note that there is also a text format STL which is different from EBU Note This format supports more than two lines of text These are imported into the Subtitler document but not rendered You need to reformat these titles manually Import format EBU STL binary Teletext This format is essentially the same but it also imports Teletext color codes for the title Only one color code per title is imported as you cannot have more than one color per title in Subtitler The vertical position of the titles is now imported into EBU Teletext as good as it is possible But it works only correctly under certain conditions Some math The Teletext layout as 23 lines If you take the PAL format with 576 lines and remove 20 title save then you get 460 lines which makes 20 picture lines for one Teletext line The Teletext line is defined for each subtitle line but Belle Nuit Subtitler accepts only one vertical position of each title So actually only the last line is read To get a correct translation the vertical position in the Subtitler document has to be set to bottom title save 576 10 519 and the vertical alignment has to be set to bottom FAB This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring program Each subtitle begins with the filename a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the image size ignored The separators can be tabs or space fi
78. hould export a DV movie from FCP and spot and translate within Subtitler Note This importer does only import Text effects not Lower 3rd effects If you have Lower 3rd effects you need to preprocess the XML file in a text editor Replace all Lower 3rd with Text and all Str1 with Str Flying Sky The Flying Sky format ressembles the STL text format except that there are no commas between the fields and that the separator is used to separate lines and there is no farmattina Fach titla ic ana lina Tha lina ctarte with TCin enara Teniit enara tavt Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 80 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse formatting Each title is one line The line starts with TCin space TCout space text Text lines are separated with 02 18 45 17 02 18 48 04 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 02 18 48 14 02 18 51 21 during the war which lasted 77 days 02 19 05 04 02 19 09 16 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind Ledit10 Ledit10 files are standard files from the subtitle lab Titra The files are RTF formatted from which first the text is extracted Each title starts with an asterisk and then start and end separated by a colon and then other information that is ignored start and end can be in timecode frames or feet frames Then two lines of text follow and at the end a line with an at sign Timecode notation 10 07
79. ile The export is fast and the files are small you can batch import them on newer systems but the matte key is not realtime and renders slowly Use this format for DVD Studio Pro Note PICT is not supported on the Windows platform o PICT alpha saves the title as RGB with embedded alpha Though not officially supported this format is recognized by most graphic applications and it is the only possibility to import titles as slides to older versions of Avid Mediacomposer 6 x or MCXpress 1 x Note PICT is not supported on the Windows platform o TIFF saves the title als RGB with embedded alpha The exporting is not very fast and the files are big 1 6 MB Alpha is normal white background o TIFF RLE saves the title as RBG with embedded alpha The file is run length encoded which is for titles a very effective lossless compression 40 60 KB without loosing quality Alpha is inverted white foreground to enhance compression You have to choose invert alpha in the Avid import settings o TIFF DVD saves an RGB file run length encoded with key colors white red blue and black for DVD authoring The meaning of the keys is defined in the STL and SST files you export You may need to adapt the color palette manually in the DVD authoring program The recommended setting is TIFF RLE if you use MediaComposer 7 x or later Xpress 2 x or later or Final Cut Pro e Export folder Select the folder where you export your files Th
80. ings in the Export section of the document The video format PAL NTSC NTSC DV in 4 3 and 16 9 VGA HD in its different flavours e The file format BMP PICT TIFF e The export folder for the pictures e A prefix of the filenames The filenames of the exported files are defined either by default sequential number or with the file comment They can have a common prefix and the extension tif or tiff eg pct or pict is defined in the preferences You can export either the current title or a selection of titles If you want to export all titles choose first the Select All menu To export choose the File Export menu If you export more than one subtitle a sheet window will inform you about the progress The exportation may take a while 30 minutes for 800 titles on a G5 A beep will notice you the end of the export You can press the Cancel button to stop the export The export is threaded you can open other subtitler documents and work on them You can even start more than one export Note We recommend strongly to use file comments You can add them for an entire file with the Spotting Tool Note If you do not have an online license only maximal 10 titles are exported at once Note Threaded export is a feature only available on Macintosh OS X Note You find the details of the video and the file format in the Export Section chapter of the Reference Guide Exporting titlelist Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006
81. l need to pay special attention to adhere to Arte requirements Ask for the Directives pour le sous titrage In particular you need to do the following The title of the film must be specified This is the filename with only ascii characters Take care when you name the file The first timecode must be specified This is the timecode of the empty title you need to put on the first frame of your film Add a title of duration of 5 frames with only one space It must have at least a space in Subtitler or it will not be in the EBU file If subtitles are not starting immediately in the first two minutes you must add an index title after 10 seconds This is a right aligned title on the second line with the text S T in french and U T in german Again you need to put a space on the first line So your subtitle file should start like this tc 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 05 space tc 01 00 10 00 01 00 10 00 style right space S T tc 01 00 19 02 01 00 22 08 your first title You cannot put a subtitle in the first second of the film The last subtitle must stop 3 seconds before the end of the film A subtitle must be displayed at least for 1 second and 1N framac and twin ciihtitlac m ct ha canaratad huv at laact R framac S htitlac Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 69 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse and 10 frames and two subtitles must be separated by at least 5 frames Subtitles should be sepa
82. le returns A first line contains timecodes with a period as separator separated by a an spaces A second line contains the title number a period a space then the first line of text An optional third line contains a second line of text 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 1 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 2 during the war which lasted 77 days Cinetyp Timecode 2 Cinetyp Timecode 2 files ressemble Power Subtitling files with the difference that there may be a header that titles can have three or four lines depending on line count and that the titles are aligned to the timecode with spaces Some Header 0001 02 18 45 17 02 18 48 04 Duree 02 12 Lisibilite 29 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 0002 02 18 48 14 02 18 51 21 Duree 03 07 Lisibilite 39 during the war which lasted 77 days 0003 02 19 05 04 02 19 09 16 Duree 04 12 Lisibilite 53 No problem love to talk about Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 77 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse these things if you don t mind The importer now also imports some loosely formated files as long the timecode line has an eventnumber a timecode start and a timecode end Also pseudo italic codes at beginning are detected Some Header 1 02 18 45 17 02 18 48 04 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 2 02 18 48 14 02 18 5
83. lect them all and shift control drag them to the Composer window o On an Xpress sort the titles by name select them all and drag them to the timeline Load your program sequence into the Composer monitor Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence Display source in the timeline to see the title numbers On both sides select only the title track You can now do your editing with only keystrokes Go to next title S Mark in and out T Toggle monitor ESC Go to next title S Edit overwrite B Toggle monitor ESC and so on You can automate this repetitive operation with the Avid Helper Tool This tool sends keystrokes to the Avid to edit the timeline for details see the Avid Helper Tool chapter in the Reference Guide 9 vurWD Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 38 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Making corrections Subtitling is an interactive process which has often several steps of reviewing and corrections Keep the Subtitler document open while editing in the Avid If you need to make a correction 1 Go to the Subtitler correct the text export the individual title 2 Inthe Avid sequence select Match Frame and then Find in Bin to select the source clip in the bin 3 Batch Import the source clip If you make also corrections on the spotting You can update the changes you made in the Avid 1 Use EDL Manager to export an
84. lm001 tif 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 film001 tif 000 000 720 576 film002 tif 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 film002 tif 000 000 720 576 Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 79 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Filmtext Studio Format of the Swedish Lab Filmtext Studio The textfile has a header Filstruktur which ends with a typewriter ruler and a double return Titles are then spearated by triple returns Each title has a header line with a Feet Frame Count for the Start and for the End It is then followed by a return and two lines of text encoded Windows Latin 1 centered with spaces 2 275 0N278 ONN BELLE NUIT MONTAGE presents 3 304 7 N 307 14 NJ Hier hat es keinen Staub Il n y a pas de poussi re Final Cut Pro Text Effect XML This importer allows to recover the text and the timing of titles made with the Text Effect in Final Cut Pro 4 Formatting is not retained Make a copy of your sequence and remove all tracks except the subtitle track Export the sequence as XML file The XML files are rather huge 10 KB per title and the import process may be slow TitleListConverter will use the starting timecode from the XML file but uses the framerate defined in TitleListConverter itself If there is more than one track all tracks are parsed but the titles are not sortyed by timecode Note This importer is only to recover titles made with Final Cut Pro We do not recommend this practice You s
85. mat Feature Added FAB export import format Feature Added Ledit10 import Feature Added Titracode import Dantea AAAAA Tornarrn 1wmnact Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 120 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Feature Added Transscript import Feature Added CapMaker Plus import Feature Added Online CaptionMaker import Feature RTF files can now be imported directly Feature Join and split now work also when you do not have a movie but you need tc comments Feature Added Bosnian translation f rst draft Feature Added Unicode RTF export for textfiles This allows to export unicode STL files directly for DVD Studio Pro 4 Interface The Avid Tool works now with the offline license for at most 10 titles Bug In sync mode the movie does not move any more to the inpoint while you are editing a title Bug In sync mode when you switch between the movie and titlelist the cursor position is preserved if you stay within the same title Bug Monitor tool did not reflect style comments new bug in 1 7 3 Bug Spotting Tool Offset Timecode is more tolerant about spaces 01 00 00 00 Bug The Full Screen Tool does now wrap properly Bug Probably fixed the uppercase O problem in PAC import Bug Improved Unicode importing The byte order mark is interpreted and overrides the import setting UTF 16 littleendian is recognized on each platform Bug Located some possible crashes with i
86. mat is ambiguous and import errors have been reported if a subtitle text line starts with a number 1 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 2 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 74 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Avid DS This format is used normally to import subtitles into Avid DS The format has a header with formatting commands which is ignored and a data section starting with the tag lt begin subtitles gt Titles are separated by double returns and each title is preceded by a timecode line Text must be in Windows ANSI text encoding some comment lines and formatting lt begin subtitles gt 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days lt end subtitles gt BSPlayer These are textfiles that can be read by BSPlayer Each line is a title Framecount of start and end are written in curly paranthesises then the text multiple lines separated with 6153 6200Hn this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days 6312 6382 during the war which lasted 77 days CapMaker Plus cap This is a binary format used by CapMakerPlus Subtitler imports the spotting and english text We do not have information about other textencodings CapMakerPlus is designed for
87. mment lines Feature individual styles Feature settings for extensions and creator codes Feature multilanguage support Feature xml file format Feature keyfile in application support folder Fixed bug invisible icons Fixed bug underline stiles Performance faster export of single titles 2 8 00 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 1 Feature Borders Feature blurring Feature export to HD Feature replace Performance faster TIFF export 27 2 00 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 0 1 Feature Release in french german update in english Feature PICT alpha added Performance TIFF exporting is faster 14 2 00 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 0 Release versions in english Fixed bug registerwindow 14 2 00 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 0b8 Feature text editor with multiple undos and integrated style and preview Feature adding comments and filenames Feature underlying rectangle as option Feature left right limits Feature simple and smart wrap Feature resizable monitor window Dantea Cafan titla AWA RA AL ALAR Al ainka Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 126 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Feature Safe title and background picture Feature preparing for french and german localization Feature export as simpletext and as picture viewer files Documentation as pdf 31 12 99 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 0b1 Printed with Belle Nuit HTMLBook Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 127
88. mported movies Bug Fixed title selection in the Spotting Tool Offset Timecode Bug The PAC converter know recognizes the special character BE Bug File extension preferences tif or tiff are now updated correctly in the export tool Bug Fixed a textencoding issue with DIN fonts 28 8 5 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 3 Feature Added support for feet frames counting in Cinetyp film import format Feature FCP XML exports now with 50 frames handle on each side Feature Added Adobe Encore text format for import and export Feature Titra 2 Import Change Movie now jumps to inpoint when you create a new title N or update the timecode M Change Added program version to file header Bug Titles with style tags are no correctly centered on Windows Bug Label corrected on Sonic Scenarist export that prevented borders to be recognized by Scenarist Bug Fixed a bug introduced with 1 7 where the cursor in the titlelist jumps to the title before the new title created in spotting with synchronize option on Dina Damavand Beim minan Af inanan Lafana nandaninan suhiah aana A nanman nan ARAL Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 121 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Bug Removed trimming of lines before rendering which caused some non ascii characters not to be displayed in windows Bug Fixed internal error that prevented export on beta 6 and 7 Bug Made TimeCode importer more tolerant allow multiple sp
89. nd create subtitles for the video version e Spot and transcribe a QuickTime movie send the file and the movie to a translator who translates it directly in Subtitler e Import a Subtitle list in one format and export it into another The Subtitler document can be used as a master document for subtitling During subtitling you may have to do many corrections and fine tuning of both the text and the spotting If you update your subtitler document with these corrections you can use the same subtitler file to create subtitles for multiple targets e Video subtitles e DVD subtitles e Digital cinema subtitles e Film subtitles e Multiple languages with the same spotting Testing is important As you have to interact with people external to your postproduction suite you will need to test the workflow Send testfiles before you start If you have a file format you cannot read send it to us matti belle nuit com As a matter of fact most import and export formats we add have been requested by Subtitler users Creating Subtitles Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 20 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Working in Belle Nuit Subtitler is straightforward The Subtitler documents window is a texteditor where you can type your titles Pages are separated by two returns Text is wrapped automatically to two lines but you can also wrap the text manually The style of the titles applies to the entire document For proper
90. netyp Timecode2 importer more tolerant for loose formatting Bug RTF files are now also recognized when Unicode is set as Textencoding Bug Detected quote character correctly in RTF files Bug Removed zero character and zero timecode events in EBU file import Bug MTL Text now allows an empty line between the timecode line and the title Bug Found many french and spanish accents in PAC files Bug Found many french and spanish accents in 890 files Bug Quicktime Text export now uses TextHeight and also the Leading to calculate the height of the movie Bug Found many turkish accents in 890 files Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 116 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 11 7 6 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 7 Feature Reading Speed indicator and preflight Feature New keyboard shortcuts to clear in d clear out f and clear in and out g Feature When you modify a title with in and out set to zero it will now remove the timecode comment Feature You can f x now timecode comments with wrong separators like with the spotting tool applying an offset of O frames Feature New import format BSPlayer Feature New import format Mauritius Film Feature Added many textencodings on Import tool Feature Menu Edit Select Title command T selects the entire title text Feature Spotting Tool Update Timecode has now the option to remove unreferenced titles Titles not appearing in the reference li
91. ning an experienced editor is able to to a successful spotting There are different criteria how to define the rhythm of a title and they are often contradictionary Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 26 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse e The title should hold long enough that it can be read by the public while still being able to follow the image The duration should therefore be between 1 5 and 3 seconds e The title should not exceed one or two lines of 34 40 characters Check the font size and title length requirements before you start subtitling The title should be in sync with the speaking person You should never have a title from one character while hearing another character The titles should be divided into units which follow the syntax of the dialogs The titles should be divided into units which follow the rhythm of speech of the dialogs Which on a documentary is often not the same as the previous criterium The titles should be spaced with at least 3 6 frames Some stations prefer titles without space e The title should neither start nor end with a cut You will find out yourself your way Before you make your first subtitles you may go to the theatre and analyze the subtitling of international movies Now back to Subtitler Import the movie with the menu command File Import Movie We recommend using movies in MPEG4 MPEG1 or DV compression but your choice may depend of the
92. ns Style Export Movie Preview and the Titlelist While the Titlelist section is always visible the other four sections can be shown or hidden with the disclosure triangles Style section Export section Movie section Preview section Titlelist section About comments The Style section Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 55 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse You can choose any font in your system We recommend Arial Narrow True Type fonts work best If you choose Postscript fonts be sure to add big screen fonts and not only the 12 size This will approve the font metrics Size can be choosen within the limits of the screen dimensions We made best experience with sizes from 33 to 40 in subtitles Choose your style with the Bold Italic and Underline checkboxes Choose the Text color Color is not checked for legal values This is why you may choose File has RGB Levels in the Avid import options Choose Spacing space between characters and Leading space between lines Choose the Softness Softness of biger than O will blur the title Rendering may take more time Note On projects with the file format TIFF DVD the antialiasing depends on the softness parameter Antialiasing is on when the softness is bigger than 0 Choose the Level 0 is completely transparent 100 completely opaque If you choose colored titles a reduced level of 90 may improve the results in the Avid by having les
93. nt wrap simple wrap or smart wrap and create real two liners This is useful if you want to export the titles Or Remove the wrap to create one liners again Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 91 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Preferences e Display a background image to have a better preview of the title You can import any picture QuickTime can read The picture will be forced to fit your video format dimensions You can also set in the settings window the monitor background picture to the current movie The monitor window then will show a still of the current movie A background picture slows down the title rendering in the monitor and the rendering is only approximative if the monitor is not original size e Safe Title Display Safe Action 90 and Safe Title 80 area e Define the Creator of the exported PICT and TIFF files The Creator is the Application which will open the file when you double click it e Define the File Extension of the exported PICT and TIFF files This allows you to have TIFF files exported as tiff tif or without extension Note PICT is not supported on Windows e Define the textsize in the Titlelist and in the Preview This allows for better reading on large screens e Define Split distance for Spotting The split distance is the number of frames between two titles you decide to split Default 3 frames e Define the reading speed The reading speed is defined as characters
94. ntage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 1 Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor o On a Media Composer sort the titles by name select them all and shift control drag them to the Composer window o On an MCXpress sort the titles by name select them all and drag them to the timeline 2 Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence 3 You can now do your editing with only keystrokes Play to in point JKL Mark in I Play to out point JKL Mark out O Toggle monitor ESC Go to next title S Edit overwrite B Toggle monitor ESC and so on COON ON KRWDY Avid on a Windows PC The subtitler file and the exported files are platform independent The rendered files can be imported into the Avid without any further problems Or you can use Belle Nuit Subtitler for Windows now Tape names start over after 200 titles We give the titles tapenames so you can identify them easily enabling View Source in the timeline However Avid EDL Manager will give an error when you import an EDL with more than 255 tapes Therefore tape names start over every 200 titles Avid EDL Manager does not support more than 1000 titles You can make an EDL with more than 1000 titles but Avid EDL Manager will give an error when you import the EDL If you have more than 1000 titles split your document in two and export two separate EDLs Avid DS Avid DS can imp
95. nually the access path to the folder in a text editor once you moved the files to PC Spruce Maestro Subtitler can now export Spruce Maestro files txt which are very much alike STL Text files STL Graphic for DVD Studio Pro Save the file in the same folder as the rendered titles STL Text You can export also an STL file with the title text itself and not a link to the graphic file Style information is exported on font name text size and bold italic underline on global comment and style tag level but not on colors borders and opacity The vertical alignment is exported assuming the DVD authoring aligns top and bottom at title safe areas what DVD Studio Pro does Note If you use another foreground color than white you must yourself change the color palette using the values written into a comment in the file The format does not allow to directly define colors only to choose a color from the palette Title level colors are not supported Note on non roman characters DVD Studio Pro 2 supports only MacRoman characters Later versions of DVD Studio Pro support Unicode but the file must be Unicode RTF Subrip Subtitler can now import and export Subrip srt files Subtitler 1 1 Substation Alpha Subtitler can now import and export Substation alpha ssa files Formatting is ignored Text The Titlelist will be exported to a TEXT file with the creator ttxt Simple Text Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 73
96. o import the titles manually 1 In the Subtitler export the titles as TIFF RLE 2 Inthe Avid import all titles into a new bin with the option Invert Existing Alpha and Deselect Import Sequential File 3 Create a sequence of your imported titles and load it into the source monitor o On a Media Composer sort the titles by name select them all and shift control drag them to the Composer window o On an Xpress sort the titles by name select them all and drag them to the timeline 4 Link the track of the source to the subtitle track of your sequence 5 You can now do your editing with only keystrokes Play to in point JKL Mark in I Play to out point JKL Mark out O Toggle monitor ESC Go to next title S Edit overwrite B Toggle monitor ESC and so on You can automate this repetitive operation with the Avid Helper Tool This tool sends keystrokes to the Avid to edit the timeline for details see the Avid Helper Tool chapter in the Reference Guide CON OO UN RP wWwDN Media Composer 6 x MCXpress 1 x These older versions do not support the TIFF format 1 In the Subtitler export the titles as PICT alpha 2 Inthe Avid import all titles into a new bin with the option Invert Existing Alpha and Deselect Import Sequential File You will need to edit the titles manually as Batch Import is not supported on these models Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 40 Belle Nuit Mo
97. of one document based on the spotting of another document Split and join also work when no movie is imported but the titles must have tc comments See the chapters Spotting Tool and the Menu reference for details about these commands Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 29 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Handling Languages The files and the text handling of Subtitler is based on Unicode This means that the program supports all writing systems installed on your system It uses the fonts installed on your system A Subtitler document is limited to one font but some fonts like Lucida Grande on the Macintosh even support multiple writing systems so you may have arabic on a first line and english on the second line Note Character spacing is disabled for Non Roman fonts and simple and smart wrap work only on langauges with spaces eg not in chinese and japanese If you subtitle a film in multiple languages it may be useful to create one master list with a common spotting for all languages This way will simplify specially subtitling in the Avid You will have to edit the titles only once and then simply decompose batch import for the additional languages Spot and transcribe the film in the original language Then send this file to each of the translators The translators will comment out the transcription and add the translated line Comment out is simply adding a slash before the line This line will then
98. of or in connection with the use of this software Product specification are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part of Belle Nuit Montage The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement The software may not be reverse assembled and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specially allowed in the license agreement Belle Nuit Montage Matthias Burcher August 2000 2006 All rights reserved Written in Switzerland Using work from Realsoftware Einhugur Monkeybread Software and Tildesoft Dutch translation by Rienk Leendertse Swedish translation by Alberto Hersckovits Protected by Swiss Copyright Laws Trademarks Avid Media Composer Avid Xpress are trademarks of Avid Technology Inc Macintosh Power Macintosh Finder QuickTime and Final Cut Pro are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Stuffit Expander is a trademark of Alladin Systems Inc All other trademarks and registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners Comments please to matti belle nuit com The newest version is available at http www belle nuit com Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 115 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse History 11 11 6 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 8 Feature Enabled spacing in Windows Feature Added format HDV 1080i
99. orm is visible next to the movie The upper timeline shows the entire movie duration each title is red The lower timeline shows 8 seconds of audio with a blue cursor It has red L 4 markers for in and out points and colored lines for existing titles You can also click on the timeline to set the movie position Scrubbing is supported for the stepping with the arrow keys If the audio is too silent or too loud you can scale the audio waveform data vertically Use the menu commands Spotting Increase Waveform and Spotting Reduce Waveform or the Up and Down arrow keys Note lf you are going too fast with the keyboard and editing then the movie can go sometimes silent or stops playing Note The waveform cannot be displayed if the movie does not have an independent sound track MPEGT muxed The color of the subtitle line does indicate the reading speed If the color is green the reading speed is correct to the reading speed you define in the preferences 12 characters by second as default If it is red it is more than 20 too fast if it is blue it is more than 20 too short You can also see statistics of the reading speed on the preview section label You can see the duration in seconds for each titel DUR the length in characters LEN spaces included and the reading speed RS characters per second The spotting information is saved as timecode comments attached to the titles You can edit these timecodes by hand or use the trim ke
100. ort a list of subtitles with it spottings The list will be converted to a timeline with text effects Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 41 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Choose the menu Tools Export List and select Avid DS as list format Import the file into Avid DS Note Text encoding is limited to Windows ANSI Global formatting is translated to Avid DS formatting as much as possible Title level and character level formatting is not supported Using Subtitler with Final Cut Pro Belle Nuit Subtitler creates TIFF files which are edited in the Final Cut Pro FCP as graphics which are realtime on some FCP systems You can export the spotting from Subtitler to FCP via an EDL or via XML FCP 4 1 or later Note If you experience problems with crashing Final Cut Pro 5 while importing or updating XML files try using the EDL CMX3600 export instead Depending on your subtitling workflow there are various methods to make work FCP and Subtitler together Spotting in Belle Nuit Subtitler e Spotting in the Final Cut Pro e External spotting This document also discusses some special cases e Making corrections e Creating and additional language Realtime vs Rendering e EDL Importing Problems Importing FCP Text effect titles into Subtitler e Continuous titles e Localized versions of Final Cut Pro and CMX3600 EDL Workflow Spotting in Belle Nuit Subtitler Subtitler Documentation 2
101. ot and transscribe a movie then the translator comments out the original language and adds the translated subtitle Special comments are used to define a property of the subtitle Currently these are the file the tc and the style comment You can use a comment to add your own filename If the commentline has the file tag the following text will be used as the filename Examples for comments This is a normal title without comment chabis Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 62 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Here added a comment that i did not understand the word chabis file generique This title will have the filename generique tiff file 00 01 12 10 This title will be saved as 00 01 12 10 tiff because are not allowed in macintosh filenames You can use a comment to define a style on the title level Adding a style tag allows you to set titles bold italic underline or plain remove bold italic and underline and align to left right or center to change the vertical and the boxlevel Styles can be combined Examples style bold This is a bold title style italic left This is a title which is italic and left You can use the style color red green blue comment to define the color on title level You can combine the color keyword with bold italic etc Example style color 235 16 16 This is a red title with 100 video red style color 235 235 16 bold This is
102. page 33 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse The format of the titlelist depends on the editing system you will want to use the subtitles For example you will need a CMX 3600 EDL for Avid a Final Cut Pro XML for Final Cut Pro and an STL Graphic file for DVD Studio Pro To export the titlelist you need to choose the File Export Other or the Tools Export menu You first select the document to export then the list format Depending on the list format you may have additional settings text encoding framerate offset You press the Preview to see a preview of the export and then the Export button to export the file The Export Tool exports mainly spotting information For some formats the text is exported Some formats also include part of the formatting style Some list formats like STL Graphic needs the file to be located in the same folder than the picture files Other formats like Sonic Scenarist need manual editing of the files after export See the Export Tool chapter of the Reference Guide for the details about the list formats Note If you do not have an online license only maximal 10 titles are exported at once Note If you experience problems with crashing Final Cut Pro 5 while importing or updating XML files try using the EDL CMX3600 export instead Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 34 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Using subtitles in video editing After exportin
103. pany Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Stratis Gen ve Switzerland Titra Film Gen ve Switzerland Ventana Stockholm Sweden Witness org New York NY zeitraumFilm Zurich Switzerland Selected Films made using Belle Nuit Subtitler ADRIAN FRUTIGER THE MAN OF BLACK AND WHITE Christine Kopp and Christoph Frutiger ANGRY MONK Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 8 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Luc Schaedler LES ASTRES ERRANTS Franck Schneider BLESSINGS ROOMMATES IN JERUSALEM Paula Weiman Kelman BYE BYE INDIALUSIA Roland Pellarin CALLING HEDY LAMARR Georg Misch CAMENISCH MIT DEM KOPF DURCH DIE WAND Daniel von Aarburg COLZA KLO Chris Dejusis DET VAR EN GANG ETT BB Alberto Hersckovits and Tove Torbi rnsson EDGAR G ULMER THE MAN OFF SCREEN Michael Palm INA AMER amp ELVIS Daniel von Aarburg JOURNEY WITH TIBETAN MEDICINE Martin Saxer L ENSEMBLE KABOUL EN EXIL Franck Schneider EPOCA Andreas Hoessili Isabella Huser LIANING TUAT Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 9 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse HANDS THAT SHAPE HUMANITY Exposition of the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust L HISTOIRE C EST MOI Mobilmachung Geschichte und Erinnerung Edwin Beeler David Bernet Jeanne Berthoud Samuel Chalard Anne Cuneo David Fonjallaz Fr d ric Gonseth Thomas Gull AlexHagmann Kaspar Kasics Gr goir
104. pdate timecode Feature Sort by timecode Feature Offset timecode Feature STL Text export Feature EBU STL binary export Feature Templates Interface Spotting menu Fixed bug XML export negative offsets again Fixed bug J Play backwards from the last frame no works Fixed bug When titles are empty new titles are now correctly added to the end Fixed bug Saving 1 1 files crashed when there where non ascii characters in the export path 7 6 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 3 Fixed bug FCP XML export sometimes resulted in negative clip offsets when the movie offset was not zero 26 4 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 2 Feature Swedish interface Fixed bug Non roman charactersets did not render with mixed fonts Fixed bug Style label was always english even if the chosen language was not english 26 4 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 1 Feature Modified dot Fixed bug Spacing was not rendered Fixed bug Box did not take into account leading Fixed bug Soft border sometimes created phantom lines on the top 20 4 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 5 Feature Spotting with imported movies Feature timecode tag Feature export to EDL Feature export to STL Feature export to Final Cut Pro XML Feature export to 720p Dantea Mbah intarfnar Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 125 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Feature Dutch interface 12 3 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 4 Feature Multiple co
105. performance of your Macintosh Note If you use Final Cut Pro you should not export a Final Cut Pro movie menu File Export Quicktime Movie with a FCP icon but export a Quicktime movie menu File Export Using Quicktime Conversion with a native Quicktime icon In the Movie section set the framerate and the offset The offset is the timecode of the first frame of the movie Playing and marking is entirely driven by the keyboard The movie receives keyboard commands when it has the focus the movie has a blue border and the movie label is underlined To give the movie the focus click on the movie or use the escape key The keys on the keyboard mainly simulate the keyboard shortcuts of Avid Use JKL to play IO or ER to mark in and out QE to go to in and out Once marked you can create new titles with N You find the complete list of keys in the menu Help Keyboard Shortcuts or in the chapter Movie of this User Guide If you do not feel confortable with keyboard commands you can also use the commands from the Spotting menu The Synchronize checkbox synchronizes the position of the movie and the titlelist When you play the movie you change the selection in the titlelist and you can simulate the Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 27 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse subtitling in the Preview When you edit in the titlelist the movie goes always to the beginning of the selected title A small Timeline with Wavef
106. r Documentation 27 11 2006 page 104 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse You should know that there are 3 types of STL files e The European Broadcast Union defined a binary format for subtitle exchange which has the extension STL You use this kind of files to communicate with subtitle labs and broadcast stations TitleListConverter can import and Subtitler can export EBU files There is a text file format STL which was largely introduced with DVD Studio Pro 2 from Apple You find the specification in the DVD Studio Pro user manual This format has two flavours which can be mixed o STL Text files containing timecode information and text TitleListConverter can import these files and Subtitler can export them online license only Use this file when you want DVD Studio Pro to render the titles o STL Graphic Files containing links to graphics but no text Subtitler can export these files Use this file when you want to use the graphics files exported by Belle Nuit Subtitler Why is the textfile import not readable Belle Nuit Subtitler supports import for basic textfiles This includes texftiles with tabs one tab field one line or with lines one double paragraph as title separator The textfile must be a real textfile encoded in Unicode UTF 8 which is to become the native format of many text editors If your textfile is MacRoman or ANSI you need to open it in TextEdit and convert it to Unicode UTF 8 Sub
107. rate in subtitler to 25 because the movie in Subtitler always runs at 100 This leaves you with three solutions e If your editing system supports exporting 25p Quicktime movie do that e Play ou the program to tape and redigitize it as 25p e Spot at 24p then use Belle Nuit Textfilter to convert all 24p timecodes to 25p You will also need top apply a global offset to realign the start point This is why we do not recommend this last solution unless you already have spotted This problem does not concern NTSC users While the framerate 24 and 30 is different the speed is still the same if 24p is actually 23 976 If you encounter a problem consider spotting the pulldown version of the film have a NTSC program converted to PAL use change framerate but timecode is still slipping It depends on how the NTSC PAL conversion was made If it was a time accurate video conversion then you can set e 29 97 DF to 25 constant time If the conversion was made with a simple pulldown like MPEG conversions and the duration has changed you need to make it in two steps First correct the duration then the framerate e 29 97 DF to 30 constant framecount e 30 to 25 constant time have exported XML to Final Cut Pro but it does not reconnect Also the clips on the timeline are not stills You have to export the TIFF files first and then export the XML file If the Export folder is not defined the path will not be included in the XML
108. rated from cuts at least 4 frames Subtitles can go over cuts if they go over by at least 1 second Subtitles can have 1 or 2 lines of maximum about 36 characters proportional font depends on character EDL CMX 3600 For Avid and FCP 3 0 4 0 Note Titles over 199 will have the tapename modulated by 200 due to a limitation of tapes on EDL import into Avid FAB This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring pr ogram Each subtitle begins with the filename a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the image size ignored The separators can be tabs or space Final Cut Pro XML For FCP 4 1 and later A sequence with the title track is exported Each title has a handle size of 50 frames Note Export the titles before exporting this f le You get a warning if no export folder is defined Note Absolute URLs are used as filepath for the exported TIFF files If you move the files you will have to reconnect manually Note If you experience problems with crashing Final Cut Pro 5 while importing or updating XML files try using the EDL CMX3600 export instead QuickTime SMIL You can export a QuickTime with the movie and the subtitles in it The SMIL file is a metadata file that has the description of the video track and the subtitle with the tiff files These description are just references so you still need the video and the TIFF files The file can be played directly in QuickTime player
109. rmats are supported Adobe Encore DVD Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 67 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring program Each subtitle begins with a number optional a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the text If there is a second line it is added as line The preferred text encoding is UTF 8 The format is ambiguous and import errors have been reported if a subtitle text line starts with a number Adobe Encore Image This is a simple text format that can be imported into the Adobe Encore DVD authoring program Each subtitle begins with a number optional a timecode for in and a timecode for out and then the filename Two lines at the beginning show directory and image size and are ignored The separators can be tabs or space Avid DS You can export a subtitle file for Avid DS This file can then be imported into DS to create titles automatically The text encoding is limited to Windows ANSI characters The style is retained as much as possible but you can use a DS template if that matches better your choice All the styles are global as the Avid DS subtitler format does not support individual styles Cinetyp Timecode Cinetyp timecode files are textfiles with windows textencoding Titles are separated by double returns A first line contains timecodes with a period as separator and also at the end of the
110. s this command will take some time Note If you experience problems with crashing Final Cut Pro 5 while importing or updating XML files try using the EDL CMX3600 export instead Importing FCP Text effect titles It may happen that the subtitles have already been created in Final Cut Pro using the Text effect We do not recommend this procedure as this is quite a dead end eg the subtitles are not reusable for other purposes and very difficult to edit However there might be a possibility to recover the titles Create a sequence which contains only the subtitle track Export it as XML and use the Import tool in Subtitler to import it as Final Cut Pro Text Effect XML The importer will try to recover the text part of the text effect Continuous titles If vou have continuous titles with no frames between them vou will not be able to Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 46 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse If you have continuous titles with no frames between them you will not be able to export the titlelist successfully to Final Cut Pro 3 0 and 4 0 The reason is a bug in FCP handling of the CMX EDL When the outpoint of one title is the inpoint of the next the FCP EDL importer considers the second title as overlapping and discards it on the import You do not have this problem if you export through Final Cut Pro XML The XML importer in FCP reads the sequence properly But you need at least FCP 4 1 for that
111. s compression artefacts Choose Border level width softness and color The border width of 1 represents a half pixel so normally only borders of O or higher than 3 make practical sense Choose Shadow level softness position and color Note Shadow is not supported for the TIFF DVD file format Choose the Box level softness and color The box resizes automatically to the width of the text A partially transparent underlying box may improve lisibility in difficult context You can have a common textbox for both lines 1 Box or separate boxes for each line 2 Boxes or have it fixed size The fixed size is defined with the L and R sliders of Horizontal Position Note The fixed option only works properly with two liners or if you set vertical alignment to top Choose the Left Right limits and Vertical position Option clicking on the sliders sets them to their default value The vertical size is set automatically according to the size of alee _ TE 2 ee ae ee ae aka ee ee et ee ne I ee a eS Nl Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 56 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse the text The pop up menu choose the relative position of the text to the defined position Most time you will stay with center and center With this setting if there is a oneliner among twoliner titles it will be vertically centered You have three options for Wrapping e No wrap Exceeding text is cut e Simple wrap Exceeding te
112. s saved exactly as it is shown in the program The titlelist is the source file to create the subtitles Spotting title level style and filenaming are embedded within the titlelist and written directly by the users Subtitles are separated by double line endings Any line starting with slash except double slash is a comment All other lines are textlines Only the first two lines are processed Note Because of simple and smart wrapping a single line in the titlelist can already represent two lines of subtitles In this case only this line will be processed The following comments are processed e tc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Spotting information Second timecode is out point eg the frame after the subtitle disappears Spotting is optional e file filename Filename of the exported file The filename will be completed by the prefix defined in the file and by the file extension defined in the exportformat and in the preferences eg tif or tiff Filenames are optional If they are not defined serial numbering is used style plain italic bold underline left center right color 255 255 255 vertical n boxlevel n Optional title level styles In the subtitle text also character level styles are supported using html style tags e lt b gt bold lt b gt lt i gt italic lt i gt e lt u gt underline lt u gt Character level styles may not be nested Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 113 Belle Nuit Montage
113. s the movie with the Preview window and the Titlelist Use the ESC key to jump between the movie and the titlelist The movie is entirely driven by the keyboard e ESC switch focus between movie and titlelist SPACE play stop J play backward and increase speed eK J play backward 25 speed e K stop eK L play forward 25 speed L play forward and increase speed e LEFT move position to one frame to the beginning e RIGHT move position to one frame to the end e HOME move position to the beginning e END move position to to the end e E Mark In e O R Mark Out e D Clear In F Clear Out e G Clear In and Out e Q Goto In e W Goto Out A One title back e S One title forward Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 60 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse e N Create new title with current marks and start writing the title e Y Split the title in two titles at current position e U Join the title with the next one at current position e T Mark current title e M Update the title with current marks e 1 Trim the start of the title at the position one frame to the beginning e 2 Trim the start of the title at the position one frame to the end e 5 Trim the entire title at the position one frame to the beginning e 6 Trim the entire title at the position one frame to the end e 3 Trim the end of the title at the position one frame to the beginning
114. s used again and then the same happens o have a 24p project which will be shown at television PAL How can i be sure that my spotted titles will be in sync on the television program o have a NTSC program converted to PAL use change framerate but timecode is still slipping e Exporting o have exported XML to Final Cut Pro but it does not reconnect Also the clips on the timeline are not stills o have exported XML to Final Cut Pro but FCP 5 0 crashes o Why do titles look correct in Subtitler but are not antialiased and look jaggy in Photoshop and Final Cut Pro o Why is the transparency of my titles in Final Cut Pro absent wrong o have imported two hours of subtitles into a Final Cut Pro project Only the first 25 minutes are rendered and the other Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 102 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse part requires a render Why do I need to render o Why do I have to redefine the export path every time open a subtitler file o Why do my titles have wrong video levels o My titles are not properly antialiased are distorted especially when render a lot of titles o There is no title but only a white block o have a video in 23 98 spotted in Belle Nuit Subtitler with 24 and it is not correct when import it into FCP e Features o Does Subtitler make Crawls and Rolling titles e Where can i ask further questions and make f
115. sanne Suisse Softitrage Softitrage is a format for subtitling film After a header the titles start with a line BODY Each title has a line with the number n a line for start and a line for end in format reel feet frames and one or two lines of text HEADER BODY 1 01 00002 06 01 00005 06 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 2 01 00006 00 01 00008 12 during the war which lasted 77 days FOOTER STL Text This format is supported by Apple DVD Studio Pro 2 There is one title per line fields separated by comma The first field contains the starting the second the ending time code the rest the titles If the title contains more than one line the lines are separated by a Mes Note The formatting lines starting with are ignored The inline formatting tags are translated in style tags to be used with Subtitler 1 6 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 10 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 10 during the war which lasted 77 days Note There is a text format STL used by Apple DVD Studio Pro and a binary format STL used by european broadcast stations Use the EBU converter for the binary format Structured Titles Titles are separated by double returns The first line contains title number starting and ending timecode The following lines start with LINO3 and contain the lines 0001 10 07 49 22 10 07 53 15 10 Subtitl
116. st are removed and the list is sorted Feature Export window is resizable Feature New export format Text without comments Feature EBU file import now reads italic and left and right position Feature EBU Teletext file import reads now vertical position Feature Cinetyp Timecode2 sees now italic text when the file is RTF Feature Expanded maximum eading from 12 to 24 Feature Duration Length and Reading speed are now visible for each title in the preview and in the print Change Renamed export format Cinecanvas to DLP Cinema Change Renamed menu Export other to Export list Bug Fixed TC Bug in Cinecanvas export format Bug The import tool now reads the original file again if you change the textencoding Bug Adapted Titra3 importer for new formatting of some RTF files Bug Removed LoadFont and GDC tag on Cinecanvas export and changed order of subtitle properties and added an unique ID note that the ID is only guaranteed to be unique on OS X Bug EBU format did not import correctly if textencoding which should be ignored is set to UTF 16 Bug The red lines in the waveform for the titles were not correct when the offset was not zero Bug Removed removed endless loop when exporting and a floating tool is open Bug Removed jumping in titlelist when sync is on Titlelist scrolling now always sets the focus to the titlelist Bug Removed Unknown encoding error when ISO Latin1 is chosen Bug Improved Sc
117. stribute this program and use on any numbers of computers The offline version is fully functional with the following restrictions e You can only export 10 titles at a time e Some tools in the Tools menu do not work Give it to your translator your director or your producer or whoever is responsible for the subtitle text Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 16 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse With the offline license you can also test the entire workflow import export quality of titles and buy only the online license when you are satisfied with the result Online License You can acquire the online license at kagi http order kagi com ZSI On the kagi website you have many methods to pay Credit cards checks and purchase order in many currencies even money orders and cash You can also order Subtitler Macintosh online licenses from within the application Choose the menu command Apple Register then click on Buy at Kagi The program will direct you to the Kagi server After paying a username and a serial number will be sent to you within 3 days most time within 12 hours Note Do not wait for the last moment to buy your license You may miss a deadline in your project You can also acquire a license at our resellers see list below There are 3 type of online licenses e Macintosh license 150 USD You are allowed to use this program on one Macintosh You may make backup copies but
118. subtitle editing which is often critical in space you may want to define your title style before editing Open the Belle Nuit Subtitler application An empty document window with the title Untitled1 appears The subtitler document window has five sections Style Export Movie Preview and Titlelist While the Titlelist is always visible you can open the other three sections with the disclosure triangle when you need them 08 Untitledi P Style Helvetica 36 Color 235 235 235 Center Smart Wrap gt Export Render as PAL and export as TIFF RLE to Movie Y Preview D001 These subtitles are wrapped automatically These subtitles are wrapped automatically Open the Export section Choose your video format Choose TIFF RLE as the file format most efficient with Avid and click on the Export Folder button to choose the folder where you want your titles to be exported to Close the Export section T Export Video Format File Format PAL He _TIFF RLE EE Export Folder HO Usersomatti Documents titles Open the Style section Choose your font As with all settings you can still change the Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 21 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse font at a later time It is recommended to use a simple shaped font like Arial Narrow Check bold For the size use 33 40 for PAL or 30 36 for NTSC The color is video white by default RGB 235 235 235 but you may want to change it to yellow
119. subtitling and been loyal to Mac Avid and FCP users Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 5 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Loren Miller on the LAFCPUG Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group forum have recently received tons of questions regarding subtitling and programs to use just played with your subtitler and love the interface Nice and simple would love to recommend your app since it is affordable and supports XML think you have a great app and will try and show it when I can Thanks again for your hard work Adam Green Final Cut Pro Lead Trainer Pro Video Applications Training Thanks a lot for the beautiful program even if I think it is much too expensive but there is only one subtitling program so you are monopolist Andrzej Kowalski Subtitles are a major problem for Final Cut Pro and Avid because neither has built in support Belle Nuit Subtitler works around the host limitations by creating subtitles as individual still image files from an entry list The titles are imported into the host and laid out on the timeline or TitleList Converter is used to create an EDL that imports the text files to timecode as well as convert subtitles from other software formats With increasing demand for subtitling particularly on government projects Belle Nuit Subtitler is a good tool to have in your toolkit or to know about when the need arises DV Guys on http www dvguys com
120. te The characters are wider on the display when you use PAL DVD and NTSC DVD feyrant far NTSC 4 3 and vaii mav need tn ren re the text siza ta fit in tha lines af Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 49 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse except for NTSC 4 3 and you may need to reduce the text size to f t in the lines of video subtitling Note Shadows are not supported with TIFF DVD and that Text is always present Inthe STL and the SST files the colors are mapped to palette colors e Background is mapped to 15 Title is mapped to 3 which is white by default e Border is mapped to 1 which is black by default Rect is mapped to 2 which is blue to default The mixed colors are mapped to 4 50 Border 50 Text and 5 50 Rect 50 Text The STL and SST format only allow to define the palette color but not what RGB color is actually represented by this color Subtitler adds a comment into the files Palette so that you can do it by hand You will have to do it namely if the title is not white the border not black and for the mixed colors You can define this color palette once in the preferences in your application so they are reused for each new project The levels are translated from percentages 0 100 to contrast 0 15 Using Subtitler with DVD Studio Pro 2 3 or 4 Belle Nuit Subtitler creates still image files which can be used as subtitles for DVD authoring Why use Subtitl
121. ternal algorithm Change Timeline titles are now read according to the red lines in the audio waveform Interface Import Tool is now resizable Interface Irrelevant settings in the style section are now disabled when TIFF DVD is selected Interface Document window resizes if the titlelist cannot be displayed any more Bug Quicktime import now reads correctly titles with only start and titles with fractions of seconds instead of frames The split distance preference will be applied Bug Quicktime import timecode format and first line after formatting text without end of line Diane Tennliinn Aana arnah AftAnn alanina r hHrirlan Glana wattle nAAi AR ABA ARABIAN nn Glana Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 119 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Bug Tracking down crash after closing subtitler files with movies and opening new files Bug Fixed Out of Bounds Exception on trim and titles do not go out of scope any more when you trim Bug Improved synchronization between titlelist and movie The titlelist now scrolls when the movie is in sync Bug The Find dialog now scrolls the titlelist to the found title Bug The Preflight tool now scrolls the titlelist to the concerned titles Bug Improved textencoding handling on RTF filles Bug Import and Export now correctly differentiate between DOS Latin1 and ISO Latin1 text encodings Bug MTL Text is now more tolerant and allows both spaces and tabs in the
122. ting system Example tc 01 00 05 02 01 00 07 24 In this building behind me spent over 70 nights and most days tc 01 00 08 03 01 00 09 20 10 07 53 19 10 07 57 00 during the war which lasted 77 days tc 01 00 11 00 01 00 13 12 No problem love to talk about these thinas if vou don t mind Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 24 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse these things if you don t mind Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 25 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Spotting The document window has a Movie section This section will allow you to import a Quicktime movie and to simulate the subtitle spotting while playing the movie Spotting is the process to define at which moment a title starts and at which moment it ends are moore stp b onie Arial 36 Color 235 229 13 Center Smart Wrap P Egon Render as NTSC DV and export as THF DVD to Y Mowie HID UsersomatiMoviesmoore lL mov _ Framerate 25 Bi Offset 00 00 00 00 Wf Synchronize Position 00000104 Inc 0000001 Dut CHOICE 14 Duration 00 00001 13 Status Stop Y Preview 0001 and the oscar goes to Mc 0000 01 01 ROTE and Me oscar goes i Spotting is an Art on itself which needs both sense of rhythm and knowledge on the language To work effectively you also need a feeling to find a good compromise in a reasonable amount of times which is some seconds This said after some self trai
123. title number starting and ending timecode The second and the third line contain the text and the fourth line is always empty 0001 02 18 45 17 02 18 48 04 Duree 02 12 Lisibilite 29 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 0002 02 18 48 14 02 18 51 21 Duree 03 07 Lisibilite 39 during the war which lasted 77 days 0003 02 19 05 04 02 19 09 16 Duree 04 12 Lisibilite 53 No problem love to talk about these things if you don t mind QuickTime The cuefile has the format of a standard Quicktime text track Timecode lines are starting with a opening brackets If no closing time is specified the closing time is the opening time of the next title There must be a closing time after the last title 10 07 49 22 In this building behind me I spent over 70 nights and most days 10 07 53 15 10 07 55 00 during the war which lasted 77 days 10 07 57 00 Scantitling Scantitling is a interchange format from swedish Subtitler translation The titles are separated by double returns The title contains a first line with the titlenumber a period two spaces input timecode with a period before the frames two spaces output timecode with a period before the frames and one or two lines of text Sonic Producer Sonic Scenarist Subtitler now provides importing from Sonic Scenarist and Sonic Producer SST files Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 83 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lau
124. titler does not import RTF files Open them first in TextEdit and save them as straight textfile txt in the Unicode UTF 8 textencoding Subtitler does not import Word files Unfortunately Word saves only in Unicode UTF 16 so this will result in an empty file in Subtitler Copy paste them directly into a new Subtitler document During spotting stepping forward doesn t properly work Sometimes works for 2 frames and then doesn t work anymore until JKL is used again and then the same happens Some QT movies from nonlinear editing applications contain internal informations which make stepping difficult If you use Final Cut Pro you should not export a Final Cut Pro movie File Export Quicktime Movie with a FCP icon but export a Quicktime movie File Export Using Quicktime Conversion with a native Quicktime icon have a 24p project which will be shown at television PAL How can i be sure that my spotted titles will be in sync on the television program If you put your subtitles inside the editing system then there is no problem Export as Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 105 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Quicktime 24p set the framerate in subtitler to 24 spot export and import the titles into the editing system The situation gets more complicated if you need to export an EBU stl file EBU does not support a framerate of 24 and the program in PAL will run 4 faster You cannot simply set the frame
125. tler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 110 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse File format Subtitler files are well formed XML files with text encoding UTF 8 From the UTF 8 characterset control characters asc 0 31 may not be used in the file except TAB asc 9 LF asc 10 and CR asc 13 Preferred line ending is CR but a reader must support all variants CR LF CRLF The root node lt xmldict gt contains an array of key value pairs which can be in any order The keys have the tag lt key gt and are strings containing letters and numbers but no spaces The values can have various tags depending on their type e lt string gt A string of any length up to 2 GB e lt integer gt A signed integer from 2 billions to 2 billions e lt real gt A double precision floating point value lt true gt lt false gt e lt color gt A 24bit RGB color value in hex notation eg FFFFFF e lt date gt notation YYYY MM DD HH MM SS lt array gt A nested array with values currently not used e lt dict gt A nested dictionary with other key value pairs lt null gt Following the structure of the subtitler nodes e document o creator string Must be SICT o type string Must be STLI o version real Must be 1 4 or higher o creationdate date o modificationdate date e mainleft integer Window left optional e maintop integer Window top optional e mainwidth integer Window width optional
126. top line It also regocnized lt italic text gt Bug Improved error reporting on registering Bug Suppressed error message about missing system font Bug Style tags work now over two lines Bug Fixed underline and spacing in Mac OS Tiger Bug Fixed crashes on import of loosely formatted sst files Bug Improved printing layout First page and last page is now honoured Bug PAC files now correctly recognize the at the beginning and letters with the acute accent Bug Update imecode does not set the focus to the titlelist any more Bug Wild cursor when in sync mode Bug The movie sync mode is saved in the document Bug Support for textencodings and linenendings in subrip export Bug Added support for Greek Cyrillic Arab and Hebrew for EBU export Bug Detected another way to encode uuml in PAC files Bug Detected circumflex and cedille characters in PAC filles Bug Fixed wild cursor when editing comments with synchronized option on 15 11 5 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 4 Feature You can now offset vertically individual titles Feature Split title does take into account the cursor position in the titlelist There are no double titles any more Feature The fullscreen tool now also supports the Key A and S A goes to the previous cut S to the next cut A and S go to the cut and not the titles like in spotting to allow for black between titles Both stop play Feature Added Adobe Encore image export import for
127. ts with a period which would create invisible fies Bug Cinetyp Timecode2 relaxed title separator parsing Bug Fixed timecode error in DLP Cinema was 400 ticks seconds instead of 250 Bug Improved reading of tilde characters in PAC files 17 3 6 Belle Nuit Subtitler 1 7 6 Feature Improved spotting of existing text Non spotted titles are previewed in gray Feature Added export format BMP DVD Feature New export format QuickTime SMIL Feature New export format SAMI Feature New import format Flying Sky Feature New import format Titra 3 Feature New import format Softitrage Feature New import format EBU STL binary Teletext Quality Worked on DVD render quality Performance Improved display of binary files on exporter Interface The value of the disclosure angles for style format movie and preview is now saved with the document Interface JKL slow play is now implemented more like Avid Slow play holds on as long as you press both K and J or L Diim Crmmnnun AAAR RAF mr nm maana su hila uas nen Artinn FAA H lAliar ina Ana mada Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 118 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Bug Cursors does not move any more while you are editing the titlelist in sync mode Bug Fixed lineending in EBU non roman exports Bug Fixed accents in EBU greek import Bug Fixed some teletext control characters in EBU import Bug Looking for a bug on Windows XP
128. tting information With some formats it also imports formatting information To import a file you use either the menu File Import or Tools lmport You then first define the list format If you are not sure what format to choose check the Import Tool chapter in the Reference Guide Most formats are text files so you may also need to define the text encoding If the file is coming from a Macintosh this is most likely MacRoman if it is coming from a Windows program this is most likely Windows Latin1 You will need to change this setting if the characters accents umlauts do not display well Most formats do not specify the frame rate so you will have to set it manually Select 25 for PAL and 29 97 for NTSC You then you press the Import button to get a preview This will show the titlelist on the bottom of the window If the preview is satisfying then you can press the Create Document button to create a new Subtitler document You can specify from which document you want to inherit the formatting style export section You can choose between any open file or from a file in the templates folder Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 32 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Export To use the subtitles in your editing system you have to export two kind of files The picture files and the titlelist that describes the spotting of the titles Exporting picture files For the picture files you define the sett
129. view working properly you need to set your style to the actual definitive render settings If you spot a movie in sync mode the next not spotted selected title is displayed in Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 61 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse gray When you spot the preview label shows also informations on reading speed You can see the duration in seconds for each titel DUR the length in characters LEN spaces included and the reading speed RS characters per second Note The preview is not updated when the Full Screen tool is open The Titlelist section Text is not styled It is always 12 point or the size defined in the Preferences in the text font you choose You can cut copy paste and find like in any other text editor You may import a text document if you prefer another text editor The text formatting is simple Titles are separated by double returns Titles may have one or two lines You may enter manually a return or you can use the wrap fonction defined in the Style section e If the title exceeds two lines the other lines will be ignored e If the line of a title begins with a slash it will be regarded as a comment an ignored for the rendering Comments Comments lines are lines beginning with a slash The text of these lines is ignored by the rendering You can use comment for personal notes You can also use comments to comment out a language version You sp
130. xt is wrapped to the second line e Smart wrap If the text does not hold in one line it is wrapped to have minimal width through both lines In most cases you may prefer the last options You can always override the automatic wrapping by giving a manual return Text is only wrapped if it exceedes the size limit Simple and Smart Wrapping is only valid within Subtitler If you export a textfile with the Export Tool the text will not be wrapped You can commit or remove a wrapping with the Style Tool All style settings are saved with the document If you create anew document it will copy the style settings of the topmost document window Style settings are global for all subtitles You may define however some style properties at title level with comments and at character level with style tags See the Comments chapter for the details The Export section To use the subtitles in your editing system you have to export two kind of files The picture files and the titlelist that describes the spotting of the titles For the picture files you define the settings in the Export section of the document The video format the file format the export folder and an optional prefix for the file names The filenames of the exported files are defined either by default sequential number or with the file comment They can have a common prefix and the extension tif or tiff eg pct or pict is defined in the preferences Note We recomm
131. yboard shortcuts to change them If you have already a translation you can spot it afterwards Use the M key or the menu Spotting Update timecode In sync mode the next non spotted title is automatically selected and displayed in gray in the preview 1 Import the titlelist from the translation Note There is an interesting import format Transcription that breaks down a text in titles Import the movie Check Synchronize In the Titlelist set the cursor to the first title Escape to activate the Movie Play movie with JKL and set marks IO Drace M lIndata tn ent tha timarnnda af tha titla ta tha marble wm BR UN D Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 28 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse 6 Press M Update to set the timecode of the title to the marks 7 The next non spotted title is gray Play with JKL set marks IO and so on You can also add new titles between spotted titles In this case always the first non spotted title between two spotted titles is automatically selected and previewed in gray You need sometimes to make manipulations on the spotting There are various useful commands in the Spotting menu and in the Spotting tool in the Tools menu e Split title in 2 titles The title will be split at current time and current cursor position e Join 2 titles into one e Sort titles by timecode e Offset the timecode of some or all titles e Change the framerate e Update the spotting
132. you import a list with the Import tool You can edit them manually or use the keyboard spotting commands to create and trim titles when you have imported a QuickTime movie Updating a title with timecode set to zero will remove the TC comment Note for NTSC Use the framerate menu of the movie to identify drop frame and non drop frame timecode Note You need to use the characters to separate the numbers in the timecode mii except for the frame separator in drop frame timecode If you need to fix timecodes mou with as separator use the spotting tool Applying an offset of O frames will fix wrong timecode formats If you need a title to start with a slash then use a double slash to escape the slash Style Tags You can define the style of individual words using HTML Style tags The following tags are supported lt b gt Bold lt b gt Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 64 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse lt i gt Italic lt i gt lt u gt Underline lt u gt Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 65 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse Tools Subtitler 1 7 introduces the Tools menu Tools help you to acomplish complex tasks on the subtitler file Most of the tools need an online license to work The following tools are available o Avid Helper e Export e Full Screen tool Import e Monitor Preflight Spotting Style Avid Helper Tool Not
133. you may not register the online license on more than one Macintosh e Windows license 150 USD You are allowed to use this program on one PC You may make backup copies but you may not register the online license on more than one PC Site license 600 USD You can install this and use this program on all computers Macintosh or Windows on your local network Macintosh and Windows licenses are separate licenses You cannot use them on the other platform The Site license is cross platform Owners of a online license will have the right to free support by email matti belle nuit com Please include your username and currently used version when you are writing for support With all licenses Belle Nuit Montage keeps ownership of the program The license only allows you to use the program for an unlimited duration Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 17 Belle Nuit Montage Editing etc Lausanne Suisse If you use this program you agree with the terms of this license eature comparison chart fo pe fight 100 yie too Platform comparison chart TIFF m x xe O 5 ct 2k O 5 3 ct Resellers Users can acquire the license also at through one of the Belle Nuit Subtitler resellers Resellers are entitled so sell Subtitler licenses world wide Support is still provided by Belle Nuit Montage There are currently two resellers Subtitler Documentation 27 11 2006 page 18 Belle Nuit Montage Editing

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