Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Subtitling tool with an subtitle text export option
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Windows accepts that
[quote]Meriadec Perrin wrote:
in any case, the SRT format, which all tools give you, IS a text file. You can simply change the extension to .txt, and it's done. I do not know if Windows easily accepts such a manual change (I work under MacOS), but most probably it can be done too. [/quote]
In fact, any subtitle file may be renamed to TXT. Windows will issue a warning, but that's all. Actually any subtitles file may be opened in pure text format with the Win Notepad, however there will be plenty of "clutter", especially in SSA/ASS formats.
The problem is that some direct clients want to see the subtitles TEXT before we burn them. The solution I have found so far was to open these files with the Notepad and save them as TXT.
The next step will to remove the clutter. Let's take the worst case, an SSA file. I open the TXT file witn MS Word, select it all, and change to a monospaced font, like Courier New. Change the page to landscape, and reduce the font until I'm sure that no subtitle takes more than one line.
Deleting the general parameters-crammed header is easy.
Then, to delete the line parameters on the left, drag the mouse over it accurately with [Alt]+LeftClick, to select a rectangle of unwanted info. Hit [Del].
The last touch is searching and replacing every "\N" (the line-break-within-a-sub code in SSA) with a space, and save as "DOC".
I send the DOC file to the client with Word's "Track Changes" already on, so I'll immediately see all changes made, and implement them on my subtitles editor.
Topic: Subtitling tool with an subtitle text export option
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Windows accepts that
[quote]Meriadec Perrin wrote:
in any case, the SRT format, which all tools give you, IS a text file. You can simply change the extension to .txt, and it's done. I do not know if Windows easily accepts such a manual change (I work under MacOS), but most probably it can be done too. [/quote]
In fact, any subtitle file may be renamed to TXT. Windows will issue a warning, but that's all. Actually any subtitles file may be opened in pure text format with the Win Notepad, however there will be plenty of "clutter", especially in SSA/ASS formats.
The problem is that some direct clients want to see the subtitles TEXT before we burn them. The solution I have found so far was to open these files with the Notepad and save them as TXT.
The next step will to remove the clutter. Let's take the worst case, an SSA file. I open the TXT file witn MS Word, select it all, and change to a monospaced font, like Courier New. Change the page to landscape, and reduce the font until I'm sure that no subtitle takes more than one line.
Deleting the general parameters-crammed header is easy.
Then, to delete the line parameters on the left, drag the mouse over it accurately with [Alt]+LeftClick, to select a rectangle of unwanted info. Hit [Del].
The last touch is searching and replacing every "\N" (the line-break-within-a-sub code in SSA) with a space, and save as "DOC".
I send the DOC file to the client with Word's "Track Changes" already on, so I'll immediately see all changes made, and implement them on my subtitles editor.
