I am looking for subtitling shortcuts. Is there a way to create a file that translates a one hour documentary, for example, and then you can import the text back into FCP to create subtitles?

Posted by Harriet Hirshorn on Friday, February 2, 2007 @ 09:18 AM

thanx for the tips, very helpful. a problem i have in makin subtitles is that after rendering, it's rather blur n make it difficult to read. I understand it's a elementary prob in FCP with interlacing but do u have any tips to help it just bit better?

thanx, Trang

Posted by Trang on Saturday, July 7, 2007 @ 09:20 AM

The problem of subtitles is that it is often pages of text which you have to manually slice into subtitle fragments and then position it on the screen. i think there should be a smart template that does that work for you - and we just have to go through the timeline, check and adjust. in online video studios there are hardware tools who do this work.

Posted by Axel Breuer on Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 02:23 AM

hey how about converting that into SRT subtitle format. Is there any option in FCP for extracting only the subtitle.

Posted by Agent Smith on Sunday, September 12, 2010 @ 01:24 AM

@Agent Smith: choose File –> Export –> XML then load the resulting XML file into "Subtitle Xtractor" which you can find here:
http://truevision-video.de/index.php?article_id=32&clang=1

@Harriet Hirshorn: You might find my tutorial on collaborating with distant translators on subtitles for DVD Studio Pro handy:
http://timsk.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/workflow-for-multi-lingual-subtitles-in-dvd-studio-pro/

Posted by Tim on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 04:41 PM

So for multilingual video translation & subtitling projects, with most outsourcers supplying PC-generated files such as SRT or ASS timed texts, how does one import these into FCP?

Posted by VoxAppeal on Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 11:25 AM