This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Japanese subtitle import into SubCap effect

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Japanese subtitle import into SubCap effect

'Although his sample file appears empty over here'

How do you check the file?

cheers,



		Finalé Editworks Finalé is an integrated post production facility serving the film and television industry in Vancouver. Our history, experience, range of services, and flexibility make us a leading film post production facility in the Vancouver area.

		View on www.finale.tv	Preview by Yahoo

From: "'Edit B' bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Japanese subtitle import into SubCap effect

Bogdan is right.

(Although his sample file appears empty over here.)

If the caption house cannot provide an Avid compliant .txt file, ask for what they can provide,

and i'll do the conversion for you.

(You CANNOT convert a .son file, as that is bitmap based, so that would mean OCR and that is not only difficult, it most of the time fails as DVD subs are in a horrible resolution with only one level of anti-alias.)

Btw, EBU STL (note, there is also Spruce STL) has become a bastard format, and should be avoided like the plague.

(Same goes for .890 and .PAC IMHO.)

Bouke

VideoToolShed
van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
6512 AS NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands
+31 24 3553311

----- Original Message -----

From: Bogdan Grigorescu bogdan_grigorescu@yahoo.com [Avid-L2]

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 3:13 AM

Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Japanese subtitle import into SubCap effect [1 Attachment]

-Ask caption house for AvidDS subtitles(.txt)

-import subtitle file in MC Subcap

-select Arial Unicode MS for font

sample file attached for testing

cheers, BG

Finalé Editworks

Finalé Editworks
Finalé is an integrated post production facility serving the film and television industry in Vancouver. Our history, experience, range of services, and flexibility make us a leading film post production facility in the Vancouver area.

View on www.finale.tv

Preview by Yahoo

From: "CraigACM@aol.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 5:30 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Japanese subtitle import into SubCap effect

Looking for advice on making open-captioned (burned-in) Japanese subtitles in Media Composer with the subcap effect. We need to make a 1920x1080 H.264 of a 90 minute program. Captions, Inc. has previously given us Spanish and Portuguese STL files that we imported into the subcap effect successfully. But they tell us STL does not support Asian languages. They've given us a .SON file we can use with DVDStudioPro to make a DVD, but Avid doesn't read .SON. I've seen a tutorial about manually typing in Japanese characters into the subcap effect (no way we can do that ourselves), but not about importing a Japanese .stl.

Anyone figured out how to do this? Or suggest a way to use the .son file to create a movie file we can import into Avid with an alpha channel that would sync with our program? Or another way to caption the H264?

Thanks in advance.

Craig Mikhitarian

ACM Productions, Ltd.

This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
www.avast.com