Yes. At the bottom Scrolling from the right. Blocks replacing another block (hadn't thought of that). White letters in black box. I managed black letters at the bottom. But when the speech came to be more expansive I had to make the font smaller. Looked silly. It's only a few lines, but if I could learn to make it better.

"I can see the persons lips move but unable to hear them speak over the noise"

So you didn't transcribed them yet.

It's important to keep the subs with the same font size and not too long lines, 2 max.

Small market FTA TV network SBS Australia does a lot of subtitling for foreign language films and TV programs released around the world. SBS subtitling translations in French - which I can often but not always understand - are not always accurate. Subtitling can sometimes be a condensed version of what is being said in French.

Maybe consider abbreviating the text in the subtitles.

But if the subtitling is related to close-ups and the sub-titling doesn't look all that convincing, then you might have to consider ADR (something Vegas and most other NLEs don't have) in which you record the same people from the airport scene in a studio-like environment and use ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) to overlay/replace the dialogue in the original scene. Mind you, if the dialogue in the original scene is unintelligible in the airport scene, then ADR is unlikely to work.

Thank you for the replies.

FayFen, Dexcon

Yes, I can hear the words spoken but only because I know the person speaking. Jet noise does make it difficult for others to know what has been said. Only three sentences. Two short one long.

Not looking for full sub-title of the the whole film.

Ross

The idea of subtitles is to be readable. Because of that I suggest you don't crawl or scroll them. It is more difficult to read a moving target. Just bring up the titles 1 or 2 sentences at a time. You want to give people time to read them, scrolling just eats up valuable time.

DougT. See what you mean. Been looking at tv. They tend to use a block with part of the sentence, then add as appropriate. Can relate to that.

I need to apologise to you all. In 'Titles and text' I have actually found a 'subtitle' title. It was the very last one. It can do what I wanted. All I need to do is to figure our how to make a box around the subtitle.

As I said I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I find it easier to admit an error that to try to fool everyone. Someone else may benefit from my error.

Regards

Ross

Create a box by creating another video track, add a solid color Media generator then use Pan/Crop to size it.

DougT

Good man you are.

Instead of a blackbox around the subtitle you can also make a black outline around the characters. I always use this subtitle preset with this settings:

with this result:

3POINT

What an excellent idea. Thank you. Trying it as soon as I have finished this reply.

Any more folks?

Regards

Ross

You can make the black box transparent, soften the edges or only soften one edge, lots of tricks.

Ofcourse you can do a lot of tricks, to me sub-titles should just be good readable with every background and not be too dominant disturbing the picture. Making boxes around it makes a sub title look more like a lower third.

I do similar to DougT. Blur the box edges with Gaussian Blur and reduce its opacity so it's barely visible but enough to make the letters more readable against a difficult background.

Try the shadow in Track motion, you can combine it with the one in the T&T tool.

I need to apologise to you all. In 'Titles and text' I have actually found a 'subtitle' title. It was the very last one. It can do what I wanted. All I need to do is to figure our how to make a box around the subtitle.

As I said I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I find it easier to admit an error that to try to fool everyone. Someone else may benefit from my error.

Regards

Ross

This is cool! I don't need them now, but closed captions might be fun to use as an effect. Again, with the raw footage I have from my short films, I don't like how the actors spoke their lines (partly my fault for poor direction). I would love to dub in a foreign language track and add the requisite subtitles. Of course I can only do this if the lips aren't clearly readable.

Of course I can only do this if the lips aren't clearly readable.

Didn't think Sub titles needed lip-sync. Spaghetti westerns come to mind. Saw an English movie in Greece, English subtitles, dubbed in Greek. Loved it.

Multi-cultural TV network SBS Australia has for decades done English language translation subtitling for countless TV series and feature films, many for international release in the English language market. The one constant is that the subtitles have always been in yellow - and they are a good size, the downside to that is that the original script sometimes needs to be condensed for the English translation subtitling.

I would love to dub in a foreign language track and add the requisite subtitles. Of course I can only do this if the lips aren't clearly readable.

I can't remember ever viewing a foreign language movie over-dubbed in English achieving constant lip-sync, mainly because a sentence in another language likely reads longer or shorter in English - and then you get a different syntax between languages. Reflexive verbs are common in romantic languages like French (e.g. "je vous aime" - literally "I you like" in English), but quite uncommon in English - but does exist with words like myself, himself and herself.

But the downfall of subtitled movies. Many, many decades ago, I went with friends to a Saturday night comedy movie (Porkys) at a cinema in Trondheim Norway. The movie was in English but subtitled in Norwegian and Swedish. The trouble was that the subtitling came up just before the funny lines were delivered in English, and the Norwegian audience erupted in loud laughter based on the subtitles - consequently I couldn't hear the dialogue and thus had no idea what the joke was.