Sunday, June 7, 2015

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
 
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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


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.
 




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