Subtitles - Possible in VV4?

Derwae wrote on 9/1/2004, 1:40 PM

I've got VV4 and I'd like to add some subtitles to a series of short (<1 min.) videos. I've looked in Spot's book, in the help files, and here on the forum and I can't find much of anything. I did find a brief discussion about regions, but I suspect it applies to VV5.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

Robert

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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/1/2004, 2:23 PM

Regions can't be applied to subtitles in Vegas 4 without a script, just like Vegas 5. You MIGHT be able to modify the subtitle export script for Vegas 5, but there is still one around for Vegas 4 that will allow you to export regions as text files. But you need DVDA 2 to open .sub files. Unless you're authoring with a DVD tool that will import .txt files.
My current book (Vegas 4) doesn't have any mention of anything that is for Vegas 5. New Vegas 5 book will be shipping soon enough, it covers this, plus the enclosed DVD has some examples

Derwae wrote on 9/1/2004, 5:47 PM

Spot:

Thanks for the quick response.

Robert

goshep wrote on 9/2/2004, 5:09 PM

If I may "pile-on" Spot's book plug.....

If it's half as helpful as the first book, snatch it up! I'm still learning things from the first book that I never knew were possible. If one relied solely on the Vegas "manual" they'd never realize the full potential of the product.

Kudos (again) Spot.