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Avid DVD - Adding Subtitles - Part 2

drbgaijin — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:19:03 GMT

Unfortunately subtitles created within MC, using the SubCap Generator, cannot be easily imported into AvidDVD.
If you want to work with subtitles in one or more languages and give the viewer the possibility of choosing which they want to have on-screen, AvidDVD offers a better solution.
These 3 tutorials will hopefully give you a little insight into how AvidDVD deals with subtitles.

Part 2. Entering Japanese subtitles on a non-Japanese OS, and Copying & Pasting from other sources.

Regards,
Douglas

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Expanding Library of Media Composer Tutorials

drbgaijin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:40:12 GMT

I am a relative newcomer to Media Composer (early 2008) and as I began to feel my way around I got the idea of documenting my adventures by creating short video tutorials,
Avid had already a large number of excellent, professionally produced tutorials online.
I learned very much from watching them. However I sometimes felt that newcomers like myself needed a much more basic approach to many of the things that were being taken for granted.

The first 20 or so tutorials were specifically made to help migrants from Avid/Pinnacle Liquid. However, many of those contain tips that can be useful to any newcomers.

The two main points that I have learned since arriving here are:

1. Media Composer has many, many ways of achieving a given result. My tutorials usually show only 1 of them. Be flexible and experiment for yourself. Nothing is set in stone.

2. If you are coming from a different NLE family, try and leave your old workflows behind you.
Don't try and figure out how to emulate them in MC.
The sooner you begin to accept the MC way, the sooner you will get up to speed and discover its flexibility.
It took me only 14 days before I completely stopped using Liquid.

SEE ALL THE TUTORIALS HERE on the MEDIA COMPOSER - PC FORUM

The tutorial page is, as the title above says, "Expanding".
Please drop in every now and then to see what has been added!

Hope you find something useful.

Regards,
Douglas

Creating a "Freeze-Frame" in MC

drbgaijin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:23:19 GMT

Easy to do when you know how, but sometimes difficult for a newcomer to figure out!

NB. When actually in the "Freeze-frame" pulldown menu, there are many more choices than I mention in this tutorial. For example you can choose "others" and specify an exact length for the created Freeze-frame.

Regards,
Douglas.

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The SubCap Generator 2 - Exporting a subcap to AvidDVD

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:11:22 GMT

Having succeeded in entering Japanese text into the SubCap Generator, I began to wonder if I could export it easily and then import it into AvidDVD.
That was not as easy as I had hoped for.
However I did find a way to do it in the end.
The method will work for subcaps in any language.

Regards,
Douglas

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The SubCap Generator and Japanese Text

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:50:11 GMT

It was most out of curiosity that I tested the SubCap generator.
Normally I add subtitles to my projects when authoring in Avid DVD.
As my editing computer is running under Windows XP Pro, Japanese edition, I was surprised to see that there were problems with entering Japanese text.
Here is how I solved the problem.
There is a follow up to this Tutorial named, "The SubCap Generator - Exporting a Subcap to AvidDVD"

Regards,
Douglas

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Preventing MC from "hanging" when changing Languages in the Title Tool

drbgaijin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:58:11 GMT

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I have seen threads started by users who have problems when using Title Tool or SubCaps.
If they are working in more than one language and they try to change languages MC will quite often "hang".
I recently received a tip from Mr. Egawa of Avid Technology in Japan about a setting in Windows that should prevent this from happening.

Although this may not be troubling many users I feel it is a very useful tip.

Regards,
Douglas