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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/28/2008, 7:19 AM
If you're going to do it in Vegas, the text is embedded in the video stream, unlike putting them in a subtitle track on a DVD. Is this your intention?
If you want to somewhat automate the process, SubText from VASST will do much of this for you based on the .doc or .txt file you have.
Former user wrote on 8/28/2008, 10:02 AM
Since you are talking about printing to MIniDV, I assume you are just wanting the titles on the lower third, similar to an open caption or translated graphic.

I usually select the region for each line and cut and paste from the doc file. It is not real fast, but I don't know of a script that does this.

I think Spot is referring to a script that will take your text and create a sub title for DVD.

Dave T2
essami wrote on 8/28/2008, 11:49 AM
HI

Yeah, I need to have the subs "burnt" in. No DVD. Hmmm... Thanks for your advice, I knew it was gonna be a bit of hard copy/paste work.

Thanks!

Sami
Grazie wrote on 8/28/2008, 9:50 PM
well . . . . long way around but may be a thought . .

1] Do the DVD "thing" anyway

. .then . .

2] Import back as DVD-Camcorder disc.

Nope? This ways you get ease . . .

Grazie
essami wrote on 8/29/2008, 1:14 AM
Thanks for the suggestion Grazie. Sounds like an ok idea but the reason Im doing a miniDV is that this will be screened in a movie theater and DVD quality will not be good enough. So if I go to DVD and from there to miniDV the quality wont be up to the par. Or did I get you correctly?

Sami
Grazie wrote on 8/29/2008, 1:39 AM
You understood me perfectly. I, and I guess "we" too, didn't know about the need to have it screened in a movie theatre.

I have to admit that when I did this (at the British Library!) I also used a miniDV tape and not a DVD. But I did this for another reason.

I'm now wondering if there is an option to look at this slightly obliquely. Use the "process" of subtitling within DVDA and have that come back AS a referencing region thing? BUT now use your pristine video as the final out to miniDV.

Interesting . . . .

Grazie

baysidebas wrote on 8/29/2008, 1:04 PM
We screen DVDs at the Alliance Francaise auditorium in NYC on a regular basis. It's a large screen, over 15 ft tall. No quality problems, guess it's all in the projector used.
Sol M. wrote on 8/29/2008, 6:49 PM
Creating subtitle timing in Vegas is pretty simple:

1) Create regions on the timeline that match when you want to display the subtitles for some dialog.
2) Use SubText (here) to export the subtitles to a properly formatted subtitle file.
3) Import Subtitles into Aegisub and further adjust timing if necessary. Note: you could also just start with this step and do your subtitle timing in Aegisub altogether
4) Follow the steps here to "burn" your subtitles into a video file.

Done!

Disclaimer: I haven't used Aegisub personally, but based on my experience with other similar tools, this one appears to be one of the more robust tools. In any case, if you're going use Vegas to time your subtitles, then I'd export a short segment using SubText to make sure Aegisub can import its format (as I've sometimes had to rework exported subtitles to use them in other tools). If it turns out Aegisub won't read SubText's format, at least you've saved yourself the time of going through the entire video in Vegas before finding this out :)