QuickTime - Perian Subtitle Size - Smaller please?

mgpg89

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Sep 5, 2008

• #1

I use Perian to watch subtitled movies in QuickTime Pro.

But the font size is HUGE.
Long sentences even tend to take up half the screen.

Any way to fix this?

 

Insulin Junkie

macrumors 65816

• Sep 5, 2008

• #2

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I really don't think they're adjustable.
I tried googling it and found nothing relevant either.

 

Cameront9

macrumors 65816

• Sep 5, 2008

• #3

I don't think it's possible to change that, but what kind of subtitles? Hard Coded? A subtitle file? Closed captioning?

In any case, I don't think it is at all possible to do what you want, sorry.

 

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tetraural

macrumors newbie

• Dec 1, 2008

• #4

In Quicktime go to Window->Show Movie Properties (command + j)
Then, select "Video Track 2" (it must have "Text Subtitle" as Format), go to Visual Settings and edit the Scaled Size to font size and Offset to reacomodate the subtitles.

Enjoy!

PS: I will try Media Center Today!

 

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Gml

macrumors newbie

• Jan 12, 2009

• #5

Dude thats awesome!! Works great!!

 

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zarry

macrumors newbie

• Jun 18, 2009

• #6

check this little thing i made..

just uninstall your perian version and install my custom version with ability to change size of subs in prefpane..

Perian 1.1.4b1 zZ-Build

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7YY9OC2A

enjoy 🙂

 

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latafairam

macrumors member

• Sep 12, 2009

• #7

Thank you

It works better than the original Perian.
Why isn't this included to begin with?

Thanks again

 

300D

macrumors 65816

• Nov 22, 2009

• #8

zarry said:

Perian 1.1.4b1 zZ-Build

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7YY9OC2A

enjoy 🙂

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Didn't work. Won't play .mkv files.

However, this did:

In Quicktime go to Window->Show Movie Properties (command + j)
Then, select "Video Track 2" (it must have "Text Subtitle" as Format), go to Visual Settings and edit the Scaled Size to font size and Offset to reacomodate the subtitles.

Click to expand...

You must allow Perian to completely finish loading/converting the video before it will allow settings to be modified.

 

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teho

macrumors newbie

• Sep 18, 2010

• #9

please help me here!
I'm using Quicktime X with Perian 1.2.1 and running on snow leopard, but i don't see "Show Movie Properties" when i'm at window. the closest thing i saw was "Show Movie Inspector". which brings up an information box and nothing more, nothing for me to select video track 2...my subs are in srt format btw.
or is it not working because i'm not using quicktime pro?

 

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Makosuke

macrumors 604

• Sep 19, 2010

• #10

Quicktime X doesn't allow modification of tracks in that way; you want to do the optional Quicktime 7 install (it's on the OS disks, or you might already have it--the player is in the Utilities folder, not Applications) and modify it from there.

Although I'm not actually positive you can do that if you don't have QT Pro, which isn't free--I haven't personally used a system without Pro for a while. Regardless, the previous instructions assume QT Player 7, which isn't on Snow Leopard by default.

 

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teho

macrumors newbie

• Sep 20, 2010

• #11

Makosuke said:

Quicktime X doesn't allow modification of tracks in that way; you want to do the optional Quicktime 7 install (it's on the OS disks, or you might already have it--the player is in the Utilities folder, not Applications) and modify it from there.

Although I'm not actually positive you can do that if you don't have QT Pro, which isn't free--I haven't personally used a system without Pro for a while. Regardless, the previous instructions assume QT Player 7, which isn't on Snow Leopard by default.

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i guess i have to live with the big fonts in QT X...

cheers for your answers!