Subtitle export with line breaks - Please help!

alexz wrote on 8/13/2004, 3:50 AM

Hi, I'm hoping to find someone who could help modify the export script so that it is useable in other software. The format needs to be:

00:00:01:00 00:00:09:15 (that is, hours, minutes seconds, frames - not milliseconds)
Text, line 1
Text, line 2

This would be really great!

alexz

Comments

jbar wrote on 8/19/2004, 8:52 PM

alexz,

Where are your multiple lines of text coming from ?

To get the h:m:s:f, you can pass RulerFormat.TimeAndFrames
(rather than RulerFormat.Time) to the Timecode.ToString() function.

One quick and dirty way to get a newline (I"m not javascript programmer,
obviously), would be to use:
tsv.Append ( "\r\n" )

Hope this helps,
Jeff

alexz wrote on 8/23/2004, 12:52 PM

Thanks very much!
I have (had) no idea about scripts, but with your info I deduced that if the things are written in Javascript (which I didn't know) then I could maybe find a Java alphabet of sorts. So, that's what I did, and I now have a perfect FAB output without any further formatting needed!
The thing with the line breaks in the region texts was a long shot - I figured there was maybe a way to encode a command that the script would automatically read and then split the line to produce proper two-line subtitles.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
alexz