Creating subtitles in Chinese...

Hi,
I need to put in Chinese subtitles to my project; I figure the best way to do that is by having the translator send me a text file.
If they send it to me as Microsoft Word document, should that open up OK in TextEdit?
Thanks!

TextEdit should open MS Office .doc files at the risk of losing some formatting, but that's probably not important in this case.
MS Word can also save as .rtf, which will be a smaller file size and guaranteed to open in TextEdit.

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.oO(lenny)
>i'm sorry but i don't understand. (maybe it's my
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>
>the first line is a simple declaration of charset
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in the
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it a pretty toutgh expierience trying to create my first dvd with Adobe,
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00:00:22:08 , 00:00:26:15 , This is the next subtitle.
The file should NOT saved as Rich Text (.rtf)
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+Note: If you specify a font to use, no subtitle+
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Hi,
So I need to subtitle a 20-minute clip.
I know that it could be done in DVD Studio, but my questions are:
1) Can it be imported to FCP as text or srt or it only works if burned on a DVD
2) Can it be done in FCP any other way, other than using "text" blocks?
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Stolen from the DVD SP User Manual...
Preparing subtitles for use in DVD Studio Pro:
> Note: If you specify a font to use, no subtitle
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