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Subtitle in FCP X?

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cgbier

macrumors 6502a
Jun 6, 2011
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There have been closed caption plugins for FCP Classic, but for a video like this, you simply use the text tool.
Watch out for positioning and timing.
 
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DisMyMac

macrumors 65816
Sep 30, 2009
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Subtitle support is atrocious on a mac. I use avidemux2 to extract (perhaps the only OCR available), Jubler or TextEdit to edit them, and Submerge to put them back. I usually end up burning them in, since once you edit the video there's no hope of lining things up again.

There should be a way of converting .srt files to captions, and exporting those to VobSub or whatever.
 
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evolute8

macrumors member
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Feb 13, 2011
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DisMyMac said:
Subtitle support is atrocious on a mac. I use avidemux2 to extract (perhaps the only OCR available), Jubler or TextEdit to edit them, and Submerge to put them back. I usually end up burning them in, since once you edit the video there's no hope of lining things up again.

There should be a way of converting .srt files to captions, and exporting those to VobSub or whatever.
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yup, i don't mind burning them in..it's a school project anyway
 
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cgbier

macrumors 6502a
Jun 6, 2011
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If you burn them in in any way, I simply would use the text tool.

.srt only make sense if you want to give the viewer a choice to turn them on or off, or to choose a different language.

...and those .srt can be a PITA
 
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evolute8

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Original poster
Feb 13, 2011
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cgbier said:
If you burn them in in any way, I simply would use the text tool.

.srt only make sense if you want to give the viewer a choice to turn them on or off, or to choose a different language.

...and those .srt can be a PITA
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Can I put in the text in certain tine slots of the video?
Something like .srt where there's a start and end to each sentence for subtitles.
 
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