OT: TitleExchange 1.9 subtitling tool final

My popular tool for juggling with subtitles has gone into the next round.
There are some exciting features with the new version.
*FCP AppleEvent support*. This allows to communicate directly with FCP.
*FCP XML import options*, which will allow to add the sequence to selected project or create a new one and some more stuff.
*Direct import from DVDSP track files* into FCP or other formats (with limited font style support).
*STL binary support*
*STL text (Apple's STL format) now does have font style support* - both for read and write.
*QTText import now supports font styles*.
*All font settings are user selectable* or automatic - this allows to use a template, modify everything but the alignment or something other.
*TitleExchange is not anymore limited to some special generators*. It comes with a pretty complete database for most (if not all) generators with are based on fxScript. The database can be extended or customized by the user - also all Motion templates are supported.
*And many more …*
*Another nice feature* - though it's Avid who brought it to you: using Apple's STL format you can interchange titles between FCP and Avid - using TitleExchange and Avid's subCap generator. So you can use TitleExchange to bring subtitle from FCP to Avid and vice versa.
I'll put some tutorial videos on my site within the next weeks.
The price will raise to 165 Euro at the end of the month. The update is free for current users.
But I have got a question to those of you who are working with subtitles: Would it make sense for you to include 3G text? This would allow to create user selectable subtitles for iPhone, iPod, iMovie etc.
Please let me know what you think.
Download demo: [http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange>
Along with the demo you'll get a nice subtitle text generator for free.
As always - comments are welcome!
Regards
Andreas Kiel

Thanks for the reply David. I have tried it with the Crash analiser and this is what it tells me.
Plugin
This crash appears to have been caused by the Apple FinalCutPro plugin.
Suggested Actions
Render your timeline before playback.
Try to avoid adding too many plugins to a clip. If you must do this, export the finished clip out to a QuickTime movie and reimport into Final Cut Pro.
Disable or remove the plugin with Plugin Manager.
Check with the manufacturer for an update or contact their support department.
Relevant Line
0 com.apple.QuickTimeMPEG2.component 0x2d2fcf5f SystemWrapUpAfterImportStart + 50

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I've recently been contracted to produce a series of Worship DVDs by various Praise Bands in our area (all copyright and licensing laws are being observed). These DVDs will be a sing-along type that will give the user several different options (similar to karaoke).
Contrary to many, I find the subtitle tools in EncoreDVD very useful and accurate, but I'd like to see some additions.
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2. The ability to highlight individual or all blocks on the subtitle timeline and change font sizes and colors. This may already be available, but I'm not at my EncoreDVD computer right now to check it out.
3. The ability to copy/paste individual/several/all blocks of subtitle text to new areas of the timeline so that only the time placement needs to be adjusted. Currently, you can highlight those blocks, but you can't do much more than move them around. In music DVDs, there are many verses/choruses that repeat and this would be a time/money saver. My workaround it to create duplicate subtitle tracks and drag the blocks I need from the dupes and adjust them to the audio/video. It works, but since I'm doing English, Spanish, and French tracks, it becomes a bit tedious.
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Peace, BJ

Hi Joe,
i Not sure if your first request is possible. Encore does allow the author to place the subtitles on import, but subtitles are converted to RLE bitmaps on export to DVD (standard). It may be possible to allow user control over where they appear onscreen, but if so, I am unaware of the mechanism that would allow it. Have you seen any DVDs that allow this?
I have seen this on several DVDs. There's a company called iWorship that offers this feature, but I don't really think there's a special mechanism for this. My guess is that you just create 3 different subtitle tracks per language, aligning them at the top third, middle, and lower third. Then you create a button on your language menu for each track. You'd link each button to the title, and assign subtitle 1,2, or 3 to the buttons. I've already experimented with this and it appears to work just as theirs does.
i Your second request is already possible in Encore.
I kind of guessed it was possible, but I wasn't posting from a computer where I could test it, so I thought I'd mention it with the others.
i Your third request is somewhat possible: you can duplicate a subtitle track, then edit the subtitles.
Again, I'm not working on a computer that has EncoreDVD on it at the moment. Are you suggesting something different from what I already described above? Are you saying that you can copy and paste from the duplicate track and not the original? I thought I tried that and it didn't work.
i Your fourth request- that's a feature request. But I'd suggest that you use an external application to create subtitles, such as Lemony or Subtitle Workshop.
I've not tried Lemony, but I do have Subtitle Workshop and a couple of other subtitle programs. I do use them for normal subtitles that appear in the standard bottom of the screen. They don't seem to be able to do what I want to do for this project directly.
I suppose I could create the scripts there, import them into EncoreDVD and then adjust the positions. This project is going to take quite a bit of time to produce as 100% of the profit is going for a charity (Muscular Dystrophy) and I'm doing everything myself and I'm just looking for ways to automate as much as possible.
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So I opened one of the dpx files with QT7 and exported into an uncompressed mov file and already have the first problem.
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It "looks" even more flat and seems to have lost shadow detail?
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I have a complex project, for commercial proposes.
It's include menu in portuguese and english, audio Dolby 5.1 and 2.0 and subtitles in english, espanish and portuguese.
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Actually, I've been playing around with the new Closed Caption Importer component
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ClosedCaptionImporter/index.html
I like the look of it and it just needs to be fleshed out to be more user friendly for the creation of captions, but it's following a standard that allows the captions to be inside the movie file. (Some of the tools I've found convert .scc to .srt.. with QuickTime able to read the .scc, it should make it easier)
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Please Suggest Alternatives To QTPro for Chapters, Subtitles

Hello folks!
(FYI I'm posting this after reading through many prior threads in this group.)
I'm looking for suggestions for QTPro alternatives; please see below for background.
I need to create iPhone 3GS (OS 3.0)-viewable video clips containing chapters and subtitles (among other requirements and nice-to-haves). Last week I bought QTPro for this, but am afraid I did so without sufficient due diligence since I've run into limiting functionality or workflow. I'm posting here before I go buy another tool as hastily.
-- I want a GUI tool to create video clips containing chapters and subtitles (subtitles could be simply text layovers) viewable (including chapters and subtitles) on my Mac in QT, in iTunes, and on an iPhone 3GS.
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--A

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