SUBTITLES for adults - enter full text on timeline

creativeforge wrote on 11/16/2015, 6:30 PM

Hi, I have a video clip (mp4) and I want to show the text as a subtitle/caption (MEP 17).

The only tutorials I found teaches how to enter only 35 characters at a time, so this would take forever.

QUESTION: Can I paste a whole paragraph of text on the timeline, and then edit it? Just like I do with an audio file: splice, paste, move, to sync the text with the video, using the timeline.

Right now the whole paragraph stays on the first frame so that's a lot of text for a few seconds of movie. I must be missing something, but what?

Thank you!

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johnebaker wrote on 11/17/2015, 3:00 AM

. . . . Can I paste a whole paragraph of text on the timeline, and then edit it? . . . . .

Yes, however you may have to do a little extra work depending on the source you are copying from.

For example if you are using Word then you need to remove all the formatting - the easiest way is to copy and paste from Word into Notepad then copy and paste from Notepad to MEP

Options for entering, editting and displaying text

Use a scrolling title template and add all the text adjusting the play length as required and add/remove blank lines to the scroll if necessary.
Use a static title, paste all the text into it then.

a. Copy the title and paste as many times to have the same number of titles as lines to be read.

b. Edit each title object to show the correct line, change length and sync to video as required

HTH

John EB

creativeforge wrote on 11/17/2015, 7:26 PM

Thank you, it does tax the system a lot. Is the latest version (64bit) faster? I'll try to make these images instead for now.

Now, as far as "transition" effects, I'll have to find new ones...

Cheers!