Re: Suggestions for subtitles/translation workflow for FCS2 via web collab

As Matthew mailed me about the question/problem I thought the answer might be interesting for others as well.

For this approach the low-res file should come with a sequence XML as. The sequence contains the low-res file.
Now the director can set the translation markers at sequence level. Then save as XML and send back.
At the edit station this sequence is loaded and the sequence settings are changed to "online" settings, and the actual clips will dragged into this sequence.
Now the big problem is to shuffle information from the sequence to many clips (the actual clips of the select). This must be done manually by creating new markers and copy the info from the sequence markers. An app to do this automatically can be done.
You could also use Andy's filter to apply the text info to portions of the clip.

Here some other approaches, but it depends on how "log & capture" is done.
If it is done "clip by clip" You can export all clips used in the "selects" sequence to low res and then add the original timecode and reel again. Then create an "offline" duplicate of the "selects" sequence with those low res files. Upload this along with the files.

If it is done "as whole tape" export the whole tape as low res and proceed as above. This has the advantage that TC is easier to handle.
The director can make the translation to clip markers.
At the edit station now the "offline" sequence can be opened, modified to the online settings and the original stuff can be re-connected.

Another one which also requires a whole tape would be using Bouke's SubBits by the director with the offline tape. The ".ebs" file then can be converted to an XML which applies the titles as markers to the tape. An app to do this can be easily done.

After a tape is processed it can MMd for editing.

At the final stage (while working with markers) one of my XML tools can be used to export those markers to a STL text file, if the marker/title duration is already set. This list can be imported into TitleExchange to convert it to timed text generators in a sequence.
In case title duration is not set, the markers can be "lifted" to sequence level and then an XML can be used with my TitleExchange app, which can do some automatic timing and create the generators from there. TitleExchange can virtually use any text generator (except Boris) so you got the freedom. It also allows to change quickly all generators (or settings) in a sequence with just two clicks.
An option for "non timed" markers is again Bouke's SubBits which can import the STL and allows to change the timing easily.

There are other, faster and better ways, but they would require to write a program - and that's normally a bit more expensive.

Andreas




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