Time Date stamp in Subtitles

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:49 am

I just purchased videostudio 11.5 plus on the promise made in the "new feature list" of being able to automatically create subtitles with the time/date stamp from the DV file but I cant find anywhere how to do this. I have looked in the documentation, knowledgebase and forums but it doesn't seem to exist apart from in the promotional feature list.

Can anyone help ?

thanks,
Seedar.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:50 am

Welcome to the forums,

Ulead has an on-line tutorial explaining this:
http://www.ulead.com/learning/vs/vs11_01_1.htm

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:53 am

Thanks, I did see that one but from reading it thought that referred to displaying as a title rather than a subtitle you could turn on and off during play back - have I go thtat wrong ?

thanks,
Seedar.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:01 am

VideoStudio does not make proper subtitle tracks (one's that can be turned on/off with a DVD remote) but instead uses the Title track and hard codes them into the video. So you either make a Video with permanent subtitles or one without.

You have two options:

1. If space on the DVD discs permits, produce two versions of your video, one with the other without subititles and the user selects which one to view from the DVD Menu.
2. Purchase DVD Movie Factory.
Please view Create Subtitles with VS11+ for use in MF6+ (Video)

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:41 am

Great, thanks, so with Movie Factory I can create real subtitles and from the video tutorial you referred to it looks like it can automatically create time/date as the subtitle text without having to create a subtitle file ?

thanks,
Seedar.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:44 am

Yes it can.

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:35 am

Great, thanks very much for all your help, much appreciated.
Seedar.

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:07 am

Sorry one more question, once you have created the subtitles in Movie Factory can you complete the process in VideoStudio to burn the DVD or do you have to stay in movie factory once you move across and complete the project with that ?

thanks,
Seedar.

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:28 am

Hi,

Tried your suggestion sjj1805 and problem is that videostudio seems to strip out the time and date stamping in the avi even when I save it as DV format. Is there a way to not lose the time and date stamp when creating a rendered video from videostudio ?

thanks,
Seedar

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:26 am

seedar wrote:Sorry one more question, once you have created the subtitles in Movie Factory can you complete the process in VideoStudio to burn the DVD or do you have to stay in movie factory once you move across and complete the project with that ?

thanks,
Seedar.

You can create the subtitles in VideoStudio and burn in MovieFactory. If however you mean that you want to capture the video in MovieFactory so that it creates the date/time subtitles you would have to remain in MovieFactory. Whilst MovieFactory can import subtitles it does not have an option to export them.

What you can try is to capture the Video in MovieFactory - make sure you record in DV (avi) and not MPEG and then open the captured video with the small FREE utility DVDate

DVDate Website wrote:create a subtitle file with the datecodes at the right times: very useful to display the datecode when playing a video, without burning it permanently into the video frames.

seedar · Post by **seedar** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:03 am

What I was planning to do was to captue in videostudio, edit the movie as I want then save and add subtitles and menus and burn to DVD in movie factory. This however doesn't work because when you render the movie in videostudio to saev all your edits it doesn't save teh original dv time and date stamp info for movie factory to pick up.

the only way I have found which I think will work but yet to prove is to use the quick capture in videostudio and add normal titles with date only, do the editing, then save the titles to a subtitle file. The move to movie factory and load teh video and then load teh subtitle file etc.

Do you think thats the best approach ?

rgds,
seedar.

PS: I cant find a format I can capture video in in movie factory that has the time date preserved - even DV. Its weird seems only video studio captures it and only movie factory can properly put it into subtitles !

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:36 pm

Please view:
Create time/date subtitles for VideoStudio