Importing Titles

RalphM wrote on 9/7/2005, 1:22 PM

I have a customer who has hundreds of prints in albums that were meticulously labeled by his mother over the years. He wants to have them scanned for display on a DVD.

Because the number of titles to be added is so large, we are trying to find a way to lessen the costs to him.

I could have him type the labels as a series of lines in a Word document, then copy and paste each line into the Generated Text Media for each overlaid title.

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/7/2005, 2:02 PM

Maybe via sub-titles. You'd need a script to add the proper regions and extract the names from that file (probably saved as a TEXT file.)

RalphM wrote on 9/7/2005, 3:06 PM

Thanks Edward,

Sounds like my in-elegant method will probably serve me best for this application.

Thanks for the reply

Ralph

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/7/2005, 7:36 PM

> You'd need a script to add the proper regions and extract the names from that file (probably saved as a TEXT file.)

That's exactly what the free VASST SubText script will do. Have them enter each title as one line in a word document. Export that document as a text file (i.e. just a .txt file) Run Tools > Scripting > VASST Freeware > SubText and point to the TXT file. It will import it and generate a region around each event using the text as the label. Then you can use Tools > Scripting > Export Regions as SubTitles to create subtitles for your DVD.

~jr

RalphM wrote on 9/8/2005, 5:41 PM

Thanks JR,

Will give it a try.

Ralph