Text wraping in subtitles

flashlight wrote on 6/2/2004, 2:28 PM
I have an english video that I need to subtitle in 11 different languages. I set up a spotting list (basically you set up the text and timing using the English, you export to a text file which you send to the translator. In vegas, you can copy the region list into excel or word, and in DVD Arch2, you can export the subtitles to a .txt file) in either Vegas or DVD Architect 2 and I run into the same problem. No text wrap.

Vegas Regions will not let me make a region name that is two lines long.
DVD Arch2 puts a < p > in for a hard return and automatically resized the text field to fit on one line. Obviously you can go in and adjust these all on a one by one basis, but that can get out of hand with 11 languages.

Sony, is there not a way to fix the witdh of a text box and the font size, and have the text wrap when it reaches the end of the box? This seems pretty basic. If I take into consideration the varying lengths of different languages when I create the English, there should be very little adjusting to each of the additional languages.

Please tell me this is an easy fix.
Al

Comments

flashlight wrote on 6/3/2004, 7:18 AM
Sony..............?
SonySDB wrote on 6/3/2004, 8:29 AM
DVDA2 does not provide an automated way to handle this. We understand that this makes your task very tedious.
flashlight wrote on 6/3/2004, 8:38 AM
Also, I paste in Chinese Characters from a word doc, and the characters apear correctly in the subtitle track, but come up as a bunch of boxes in the preview window...? Does DVDA2 support Asian characters?
SonySDB wrote on 6/3/2004, 10:29 AM
DVDA2 does support international characters.

Sometimes DVDA may not choose the right font when pasting. Please select the text in DVDA's workspace and change the font to one that supports Chinese characters.