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1. Spot 5 0 User Guide Working with profiles Different clients require different settings Instead of manually having to change font sizes frame rates and other options when switching between clients you can create a custom profile for each of them Click the Edit Profile button on the toolbar or click File Profile Edit to open the Profile Settings window Default Profile Settings Parameters Default interval Default duration Minimum duration Maximum duration Invalid int t hold 00 03 duh 02 00 duh 01 00 duh 07 00 duh lo Max chars per line Max lines per sub Reading speed Last cut offset Next cut offset E 4 D 4 11 4 lo lo Checks Force Ignore Too many rows Duration too short long Duration too short long el Default interval Default interval Empty subtitles Empty subtitles Raised subtitles Raised subtitles Enable dosed caption checks Files Apply zero based numbering when saving PAC files Apply zero based numbering when saving EBU files EBU level 1 teletext EBU double height text EBU start and end block markers Display Settings Link profile to display settings file SEET The name of the currently selected profile is displayed in the title of the window In the image above for example we are editing the default profile settings Once you ve set up your first profile you ll probably want to change the name to something other than Default Click OK in the Profile Settings window to save the
2. Delete Folder Cancel The FILES IN FOLDER list on the left of the window displays all of the backups for the current file together with the time and date each backup was created the first file in the list was created at 20 49 on 26th April 2010 Click a file to view its contents in the FILE DATA pane on the right To restore a file from the list click it once and then click the RESTORE button The amount of data stored in your backup folder will obviously increase over time you can find out how much disk space is being used by clicking How BIG IS MY BACKUP FOLDER The WHEN EXITING SPOT option lets you control what happens to your backup folders when Spot closes nothing i e the option is unselected they are moved to the Recycle Bin they are moved to a location you specify they are permanently deleted We recommend moving the backup files to a different location a folder on your network for example or an external hard drive or other device as this will ensure that your backups are safe and that your disk does not run out of physical space Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Splitting files Sometimes you might want to split a subtitle file into two or more files To do this Select FILE SPLIT Select split points all checked subtitles will become the first subtitle in new file 1211 212 Claus 1214 215 216 Claus las z19 RES z21 J 222 Claas He lo
3. REPORT VIEW o a E E 23 GEELEN 24 WEB EAR E 24 WORKING WITH PROFILES 555548892993 ESCRITAS ASSIS SAS ARS RAD AGUAS Anna 25 WORKING WITA FILE P 26 DEFAULT Iert RT T 26 OPENING AND IMPORTING FILES dm Hx 26 EE ee ee 26 adio OPO EE OUR aces RR DD QU SER Tom 29 IMPONG ONY e 29 SAVING ANE EXPORTING FIE ee 30 ee e 30 eege 30 EXBOFUBODIEBUD Eege 33 PUTORECOVER UE 37 AOR CON PERMET 37 EE 37 SEENEN EE 39 COPYING SUBTITLES FROM EXISTING 1 39 WORKING WITH MEDIA FILES siccscscsscvccvecdnvncsanestiscsnsenvnvanaskvacuncecennsscsubesasenveacnsassnaeusevseraroascnnaseatuisaceavevauses pebeaueeonbaasedouveeentays 40 OPENING MEDIA KLEER 40 SYNGING MEDIA FICGES MH 40 CONTR OLUN MEDA E E 41 Eeer 41 Using Ne KEV OO GIG E 43 SETTING VIDEO AND AUDIO PREFERENCES eegene Ee Ee Eeer 44 GO E 44 Media CORRO E 45 AUT 1 00 45 PROTON ee 45 AUDIOWAVEFORNTDI PIA asso sado Q 47 PSE RE IO 49 BURNING SUBTITLES TO VIDEO spas saias dE AA ASA SOS ano a paid uae pass ie a SS aa 50 USING THE eer 50 ANE ee 51 ADVANCED ENCODER SETTINGS ceeseeee eene ene
4. Edit Script GM ABM A BID AS 00 00 13 12 XQ 00 00 17 07 Character list Click to select an existing character when adding a new line Script view shows the Comparar o marketing do passado com o marketing dos dias de hoje Script Character Data The in and out times for the current line This is where you type the lines for the different Character Time In S characters in the script Sally 00 00 13 12 amp omnarar o marketing do passadocom o marketing characters In the script The E i 00 00 17 10 com colnparar uma pistolacom uma bomba inteligente le ngt h of text is un imite d t eir ines and in times Sally 00 00 22 07 Nao e como quancdes era crian a amp sally 00 00 25 14 mem como no tempo en o7 iovensadultos de h and Can be bold underlined ir li amp sally 00 00 32 14 muito mais sofisticadoe muit mais Subtil gres for their lines E a r or in italics T Mike 00 00 36 20 A quest o n o os produtos em si eu Mike 00 00 40 18 Prof Univ de Psiquiatria Mike 00 00 43 06 a no o de manipular as crian as Z Sal 00 00 47 03 para comprarem os produtos 2 Sally 00 00 51 03 Em 1998 a Western InternationalMedia a Centur 2 Sally 00 00 55 17 e a Lieberman Research Worldwide 2 Sally 00 00 57 15 levaram a cabo um estudosobre pedinchar e Andrew 00 01 01 06 Pedimos aos pais que durantetr s semanas eu Andrew 00 01 03 20 Vice presidentelnitia
5. F3 or CTRL Italicised subtitles will appear in italics in both the main edit area and the video window Single italicised words or phrases will only appear in italics in the video window in the main subtitle area angled brackets will mark the start and end of the italicised selection You should not leave a space between an italic marker and the word or punctuation mark immediately before or after it Use Quick View to add or remove italics from a group of subtitles Spot 5 0 User Guide Adding comments to subtitles Invisible comments can be attached to individual subtitles To add a comment to a subtitle e Press SHIFT TAB from the main edit area or click directly in the comment field e Type your comment e Press the TAB key to return to the main edit area Use the Manage Comments window SUBTITLE COMMENTS or on the subtitle toolbar to keep track of the comments in a file and to print delete copy or save comments You can force the Manage Comments window to remains always on top or to act like a standard window by selecting the appropriate option under TOOLS OPTIONS CUSTOMISE ALWAYS ON TOP e To move to a commented subtitle double click the comment or press CTRL G e To delete a comment from a subtitle select the comment in the Manage Comments window and press DELETE Clearing the comment from the comment field in the main edit area has the same effect Comments can be printed out or saved by selecting the appropri
6. Options Files File Types PAC Spot 5 0 User Guide When opening text files you are asked to provide certain information regarding the file as shown below Confinm Non Unicode File Format bi Language Preview Arabic Egypt Encoding Non Unicode 1149 IBM EBCDIC Isl ndia 20871 Euro 1250 ANSI Europa Central 1251 ANSI Cirilico 1252 ANSI Latim I 1252 ANSI Latim I 1253 ANSI Grego 1254 ANSI Turco 1255 ANSI Hebraico 1256 ANSI Arabe 1257 ANSI B ltico 1258 ANSI OEM Vietnamita 1361 Coreano Johab 20000 CNS Taiwan Layout File is unformatted Andis unstructured If you encounter problems when opening non system n a FN E codepage files try disabling previewing Tools Options Ce File contains timecode and other data Options Text File Layout I don tunderstand encoding and or it s not working properly Let s ignore it please Cancel File language Select the language used in the file from the list at the top left of the window File encoding If the file is a non Unicode text file you need to select the encoding format used from the Encoding list in the middle of the window If you are unsure how the file was encoded scroll through the list and use the Preview pane on the right of the window to help you File layout Text files may be unformatted containing only text in other words or structured i e containing cues and other data
7. SUBTITLE setting subtitle which contains an error Press Shift F9 to ignore ae the current subtitle and Too many characters in line SHIFT CTRL F2 7 i continue checking the file Searches for lines containing more characters than the TOOLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS MAXIMUM CHARACTERS PER LINE setting Safe area override SHIFT CTRL F3 Searches for subtitles whose width overrides the left or right subtitle margins This is not the same as the Too MANY CHARACTERS IN LINE check Invalid cues SHIFT CTRL F4 Searches for invalid cues out cue less than in cue in cue less than previous out cue malformed cue etc Duration too short long SHIFT CTRL F5 Searches for subtitles whose duration is less than the TOOLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS MINIMUM DURATION setting or greater than the TOOLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS MAXIMUM DURATION setting Cues not set SHIFT CTRL F6 Searches for empty in or out cues Reading speed SHIFT CTRL F7 Searches for subtitles whose required reading speed is greater than the TOOLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS READING SPEED setting Invalid interval SHIFT CTRL F8 The invalid interval check carries out two slightly different checks Spot 5 0 User Guide First it searches for intervals between subtitles that are less than the TOOLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS DEFAULT INTERVAL setting Second it looks for intervals between subtitles which are greater than the default interval but less than or equal to the TOOLS OPT
8. Spot 5 0 User Guide Video and audio selected the wrong frame rate when I opened a video file Click the small black arrow on the right of the OPEN MEDIA FILE button on the video toolbar select DELETE VIDEO FORMAT FLAG and then reopen the video A video file won t open doesn t play properly is out of sync with the audio Although it s possible that the video file you are trying to open is corrupt a more likely explanation is that your system does not have the correct video decoders installed and therefore cannot render the video correctly The default decoders installed by Windows will not let you play back MOV or MPEG 2 files for example and may cause problems when attempting to play other video formats such as WMV or MP4 To work around this problem installed a good quality decoder such as ffdshow and configure it to decode the most common video formats There are several diagnostic tools available on the Internet such as GraphEditPlus which will help you identify the decoder which is causing the problem Subtitles in the video preview window are boxed If you are running Spot on Windows Vista or Windows 7 and have not selected the USE VMR9 TO RENDER SUBTITLES option in the VIDEO PREFERENCES window navigate to the Spot install folder right click the file spot exe select Properties then turn on the option Turn off desktop composition on the Compatibility tab How can l increase the size of the video window The video window
9. The Quick View window will split into two panes with the subtitles from the file you have just opened displayed in the bottom pane the size of the panes can be adjusted by moving the splitter in the middle of the window To copy subtitles into the current file select the subtitles to copy then either a drag them into the desired position in the top pane or b press CTRL C select the insertion point in the top pane and press CTRL V You can also copy subtitles from an existing file using FILE MERGE MULTIPLE SUBTITLES The contents of the window can be printed out or saved as a CSV text file by clicking File Print or File Save Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Capturing and editing cues Capturing cues There are two ways to capture cues in Spot you can time a file live with the spacebar whilst in Rehearse mode or you can grab in and out cues using the mouse or keyboard whilst in Edit mode Grabbing cues in Edit mode Press SHIFT ENTER or F11 to grab the in cue and SHIFT INS or F12 to grab the out cue Clicking on the subtitle toolbar has the same effect You can choose to use ENTER and INS without SHIFT by selecting this option in the VIDEO MEDIA PREFERENCES MEDIA CONTROL window CTRL ENTER also grabs the in cue whilst simultaneously locking the last out cue to within the default interval of in cue If the out cue of the last subtitle is 10 26 07 13 for example and the v
10. Type the number in the ENTER SUBTITLE NUMBER box and hit ENTER or click Go To amp Find and Replace S To find a subtitle with a specific in cue click TIME CODE in the GO TO WHAT box enter the time code you are searching for in the ENTER Go to what Enter subtitle number Soin TIME CODE box and hit ENTER or click GO To 518 Find Replace GoTo Leave the ENTER TIME CODE box blank and hit Home and End to move to first Close ENTER or click Go To to move to the first and last subtitles Use and to move relative to current subtitle that does not have an in or out cue location assigned to it To find subtitles with specific formatting select the type of formatting from the Go TO WHAT box then use the NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons to navigate through the file For example to find the next left aligned subtitle in the current file click ALIGNMENT in the Go TO wHAT box select LEFT from the SUBTITLE ALIGNMENT box and click NEXT Spot 5 0 User Guide Editing and formatting subtitles Formatting subtitles Aligning subtitles horizontally Press the F2 key to toggle the horizontal alignment of subtitles Pressing F2 with a left aligned subtitle for example centres that subtitle Pressing F2 again aligns it to the right Use Quick View to change the alignment of a group of subtitles or all the subtitles in a file Press SHIFT F2 to toggle the alignment of an individual line ENABLE INDIVIDUAL LINE ALIGNMENT must b
11. View window will split into two panes with the subtitles from the file you have just opened displayed in the bottom pane the size of the panes can be adjusted by moving the splitter in the middle of the window To copy subtitles from the existing file into the current file select the subtitles to copy then either a drag them into the desired position in the top pane or b press CTRL C select the insertion point in the top pane and press CTRL V Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Working with media files Opening media files Click the rightmost button on the video toolbar see below or press F7 to bring up the SELECT MEDIA SOURCE window You can open video files MPEG 1 MPEG 2 AVI WMV MOV M2V MP4 VOB audio files WAV MP3 WMA or separate video and audio files provided you have the necessary decoder filters installed on your system If a file does not open responds sluggishly or has its video and audio out of sync you should consider installing a quality media decoder such as ffdshow After selecting the file you need to set the frame rate using the dropdown list in the VIDEO STANDARD window for MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 files Spot will retrieve this information automatically and then click the OK button If for any reason you choose the wrong frame rate click the arrow on the right of the open media button on the video toolbar select DELETE MEDIA FORMAT FLAG and then reopen the fil
12. add an AutoReplace entry e Typethe shorthand form of the word or phrase in the Replace box e Typethe actual word or phrase in the With box e Press the Enter key or click the Add button Continue in this fashion until you have added all the entries you want The new AutoReplace entry is displayed in the list Typing the short form of the word or phrase in Spot s subtitle edit field will replace it with the actual word or phrase whenever you press the spacebar or type a punctuation mark To delete an AutoReplace entry e Select the entry from the list e Click the DELETE button To turn off AutoReplace uncheck the TURN ON AUTOREPLACE option Words can be added to AutoReplace directly from the subtitle edit area by pressing CTRL W while the insertion point is within the word to add Smart ellipses smart quotes and en em dashes are not supported in many subtitle file formats AutoFormat replaces these characters with their simple forms whenever you run an F9 check move between subtitles or click the FORMAT Now button Spot 5 0 User Guide Undo Press CTRL Z to reverse an operation carried out on the current subtitle cue changes text editing and formatting etc or the current file merge delete insert etc The undo flag is reset when moving between subtitles unless the ENABLE FULL UNDO option has been selected in the Tools Options General tab In this case the undo flag is only reset when the main Spot window loses t
13. are disabled in Rehearse mode If you plan on leaving Spot unattended for a long period of time you should switch to Edit mode first Spot 5 0 User Guide Editing cues Editing the in and out cue To edit the current subtitle s in cue e Press SHIFT F11 or the TAB key to move the cursor to the in cue field If the cue contains a valid timecode part or all of the cue will be highlighted depending on the settings you have selected under TOOLS OPTIONS CUE EDIT WHEN MOVING TO VALID CUES e Type the new in cue or use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to increase or decrease the in cue by one frame at a time If you hold down the SHIFT key while pressing the UP or DOWN keys the cue you are editing will be increased or decreased by 6 frames holding down the CTRL key will increase or decrease the cue by 11 frames holding down both the SHIFT and CTRL keys will increase or decrease the cue by 16 frames If the previous subtitle contains a valid out cue moving to the current subtitle s in cue field will cause it to adopt the last subtitle s out cue plus the default subtitle interval For example if the last subtitle s out cue is 00 10 34 12 and the default interval is set to three frames the current subtitle s in cue will display 00 10 34 15 You can turn this feature off by deselecting the CALCULATE IN CUE option in the TOOLS OPTIONS CUE EDIT window To edit the current subtitle s out cue e Press SHIFT F12 or the TAB key three times to move th
14. changes then back in Spot s main window click the Save Profile button on the toolbar or click File Profile Save and type the new profile name in the Save Profile window The new profile will be added to the dropdown profile list on the left of the font toolbar Selecting a profile from the list will load the settings associated with that profile If the profile is linked to a display settings file the corresponding display settings configuration file will also be loaded You do not need to keep saving a profile after editing it as all changes are saved when you click the OK button To delete a profile click the Delete Profile button on the toolbar or click File Profile Delete If you are upgrading from a previous version of Spot your old style settings data file datafont dat will be automatically converted to the new profile format profiles dat Spot 5 0 User Guide Working with files Default file folders You can tell Spot which folders to open or save files in by choosing the appropriate option in the Tools Options General window Default subtitle open save folder Do TE p LAJ mlz he d nlank To let Ini Owe mana b i CE bei l kl n pon I Remember last File Open and last File Save As location fe se lll L LUE Tee LL Default subtitle open save folder Selecting a default subtitle open save folder forces Spot to navigate to that folder whenever you open or save a file If you leave the fie
15. laid out in a particular fashion If the file you are opening is unformatted select this option in the Layout frame and click OK to import the file If the file contains timecode and other data click the Options button select the layout used and click OK to import the file Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Supported text file formats Text files with the following layouts are supported by Spot See Tools Options Files for more information Native formats OO Oe ZE 209 OOs TOn 2e lA Sample two line subtitle text 341 DOSIO 23 209 00 210 26 14 Sample two line subtitle text 341 00 100225200 Sample co line QUON 7 sd aS Woe TRIES S IE SIE OUS LO2o0209 Sample two line DOs LO e262 14 subtitle text Custom formats OOH RUE DOEN DND Line One Line Two Line One Line Two SHOW 01 00 52 16 01200256208 29 SS ilt O O O 0 0 Line One Line Two DODI CL Ee e 01200256206 Line One Line Two JA 3 EIER ker HE 611618 rO Eme one Line Two On screen caption code 1 39 6 o2 210 13 4 This is some text Oss A 00 00 56 17 Line one lt P gt and line two 00200253214 00200 56 17 Line one and line two Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Importing files To import other file types click File Import to open the Import window You can import 18 different file formats e Caption Inc CIN file e CaptionMaker ASCII t
16. line Select SET CHARACTERS PER LINE WIDTH from the SUBTITLE menu Setting a figure of 36 for example will ensure that only a maximum of 36 characters are allowed per line Note that as the only way to set the maximum number of characters per line is by using a fixed width font i e a font in which each letter shares the same width Spot will change the current screen font to Courier New This will not affect the target broadcast font There is a more elegant approach that lets you keep Arial 16 as the edit font Change the edit line width to a figure that sets the CPL value on the status bar to approximately 36 e g 5000 Because Arial is a proportional font this does not guarantee that you won t be able to type more than 36 characters in a line but it will prevent it from happening most of the time As you work keep an eye on the two line length indicators above the current subtitle if they turn red one of the lines in the subtitle is too long When you ve finished working on your file a TOO MANY CHARACTERS IN LINE check or switching to Report view will pick up any warnings you may have missed How do I tell Spot where to store by backups Spot creates the backup folder for you You manage all the backups from the OPTIONS AUTO RECOVER window can t find the recut or master recut windows The recut and master recut windows have been combined into a single OFFSET window You can access it from the CUES menu or by pressing CTRL J
17. need me anymore 10 00 02 07 09 00 02 08 02 00 18 You didn t need me anymore 11 00 02 08 02 00 02 09 00 00 23 You didn t need me anymore Pre roll subtitle starts 5 frames before the first karaoke subtitle Each karaoke subtitle except the last has a duration of 15 frames Last karaoke subtitle lasts 15 frames plus the end roll time Pre roll subtitle starts 5 frames before the first karaoke subtitle Each karaoke subtitle except the first and last has a duration of 18 frames 2 extra frames the remainder after dividing the subtitle are added to the duration of the first karaoke subtitle Last karaoke subtitle lasts 15 frames plus the end roll time Spot 5 0 User Guide Removing karaoke subtitles For various reasons you may want to remove the karaoke effect from subtitles To do this select REMOVE KARAOKE SUBTITLES from the Action list select the desired subtitle range using the FROM SUBTITLE and TO SUBTITLE fields click OK and the subtitles will be restored to their pre karaoke state You can also use the lt gt button to select a particular stanza Checking karaoke subtitles Select CHECK KARAOKE SUBTITLES from the ACTION list select which checks to perform and click OK The karaoke window will remain open during checking to allow you to make any necessary corrections Check stanza continuity Checks that the different subtitles that make up one stanza are all the same length Check interval between sta
18. or stanza as Spot calls it and should normally be set to zero 6 Setthe pre roll and end roll times Pre roll is the amount of time the subtitle appears before the first karaoke effect is applied The end roll time determines how much extra weight is given to the last karaoke subtitle in the line Pre roll subtitles should never be deleted as they flag the start of a karaoke stanza 7 Click OK Each subtitle will be split into multiple subtitles based on the number of words it contains Curly braces represent the highlighted words The following two lines from Oh Darling by the Beatles illustrate both this and the way the pre roll and end roll functions work Copyright 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Before adding karaoke effect 2 subtitles 1 00 02 01 10 00 02 04 00 02 15 When you told me 2 00 02 05 03 00 02 09 00 03 22 You didn t need me anymore After adding karaoke effect 11 subtitles 1 00 02 01 05 00 02 01 10 00 05 When you told me 2 00 02 01 10 00 02 02 00 00 15 When you told me 3 00 02 02 00 00 02 02 15 00 15 When you told me 4 00 02 02 15 00 02 03 05 00 15 When you told me 5 00 02 03 05 00 02 04 00 00 20 When you told me 6 00 02 04 23 00 02 05 03 00 05 You didn t need me anymore 7 00 02 05 03 00 02 05 23 00 20 You didn t need me anymore 8 00 02 05 23 00 02 06 16 00 18 You didn t need me anymore 9 00 02 06 16 00 02 07 09 00 18 You didn t
19. or three times Compressing text Press CTRL T to remove all hard carriage returns from the text in a subtitle and force a best fit Using colours To use colours you must select ENABLE COLOUR SUPPORT under TOOLS OPTIONS TEXT EDITING The colour can be set for individual words by using the following shortcuts Red RIGHT CTRL 1 Green RIGHT CTRL 2 Yellow RIGHT CTRL 3 Blue RIGHT CTRL 4 Magenta RIGHT CTRL 5 Cyan RIGHT CTRL 6 On some systems the colour flags will appear in the edit area as right angled lines on others as boxes or parallel vertical lines Whatever the appearance please bear in mind that all flags count as a space Red green yellow blue magenta cyan You can add colours to whole lines by using the key combinations SHIFT ALT 1 to SHIFT ALT 6 Spot 5 0 User Guide AutoReplace and AutoFormat AutoReplace TOOLS AUTOREPLACE takes the stress out of getting Mississippi right for the eighth time or re typing frequently used words or phrases It also ensures naming consistency throughout your files avoiding errors that the spell checker will not detect Johny Knoxville Johhny Knoxville Johnny Knoxvill etc AutoReplace AutoReplace Replace Translated and subtitled by i Turn on AutoReplace EE Delte AutoFormat W Replace smart ellipses with plain ellipses Replace smart quotes with plain quotes Replace en and em dashes with hyphens Format Now OK Cancel Help To
20. profile Sync video with subtitles Open file Find Notebook Checks Safe area NE Hs GPs E s ma 95 EFE IY Gee amp AEN laid oe Script idis Spec Thumbnails manager ratio Email file Rehearse Profile Measurement properties Display settings converter Audio waveform By default large icons are displayed in the main toolbar Small icons can be displayed instead by deselecting the option SHOW LARGE ICONS IN THE MAIN TOOLBAR in the OPTIONS CUSTOMISE window Subtitle toolbar l Insert after Split and merge Align centre Copy Manage comments Undo Italics Delete Colour o BEES 3 x 3H e s Cut Merge Outline Align left inae Grab out cue Paste Grab in cue Split Align right The subtitle toolbar can be hidden by selecting HIDE SUBTITLE TOOLBAR in the OPTIONS CUSTOMISE window Font toolbar Current profile Edit font size Subtitle and spell check language MTV z Arial V 16 Regular 5370 English UK Edit font name Edit area width Status bar TR Average characters per line Insert overtype Subtitles in file 726 subtitles 25 fps Western 39 8 CPL 3 0 x 456 INS Prana rate Character set Video window size Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland 8 Spot 5 0 User Guide Subtitle edit area The subtitle edit area is where you type and edit subtitles and their in and out cues It also displays information about the current subtitle and any comments that may be attac
21. rnessesseeseessesssessssssessessssssesses see sesseessessssseessesses se sesso sessee sse sesso sessss esses see ue 51 BR Spot 5 0 User Guide OTHER TOOLS AND PROCEDURES pas ais adoece PEN E 53 ICT OO GE 53 NIEASURENMENT CONVERTER EE 54 SCRIP EIN AINAGER sous dois as disse asas s aih ETT 55 SCPL Manda EEN ee 56 EE de 57 e agg ses 58 Cento Nardeke SIDES dee 58 eege EE 60 Checking Karaoke SUDUCOS een ene One EE 60 REODDIVING karaoke TEE 60 Si aye UEM EIES E al ME 61 EE 63 SPOT 5 0 DATA AND LOG FILES siscsscscinccsncssccsawatiensioascossnesteeanneuiooniesaiennarevacenpeontecasneeincioesateseaseaesansusuasensnnesiensisasanssanenienstoas 64 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS eru 65 Se iii ai Y 65 Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Getting started with Spot Installation Open the file setup exe to install Spot and follow the on screen instructions Make sure your dongle is connected to your computer before starting the program and that it remains connected throughout the current session The first time you run Spot you will be asked to activate the product using your product key This is a unique 35 character identifier that will have been provided to you after purchasing the program When asked for the key make sure you are connected to the Internet enter the 35 character
22. will be 01 10 06 19 If the subtitle does not contain text and the default duration setting is two seconds the recalculated out cue will be 01 10 05 19 Out cues can be recalculated even if the in cue is empty In this case Spot first calculates the in cue time for the current subtitle based on previous subtitle s out cue and the default interval setting and then recalculates the out cue To recalculate the in cue press CTRL F11 Recalculating a subtitle s in cue works in similar fashion to out cue recalculation For example if a subtitle contains text that requires three seconds to be read and its out cue is set to 01 10 03 19 the recalculated in cue will be 01 10 00 19 If the subtitle does not contain text and the default duration setting is two seconds the recalculated in cue will be 01 10 01 19 Offsetting cues Press CTRL J or choose Cues Offset to open the Offset Cues window There are three ways of adjusting the cues in a file e Base on new in time e Manually adjust the offset e Continue from last out cue Spot 5 0 User Guide Base on new in time Choose this option when retiming a file against a new master If the first subtitle has an in cue of 10 00 27 12 and the new in time is set to 00 32 57 15 all cues in the file will be recut by 09 27 29 22 Select the Proportional offset option if the difference between the old and new The Cue Conversion window gives you greater control over converting between video forma
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24. 03c or Nu0026It Although Spot will attempt to convert these codes it may not always be successful in which case you may want to add the escape code and the corresponding character to AutoReplace Spot 5 0 User Guide Karaoke Creating karaoke subtitles can be a tedious and time consuming business Although you may still have to fine tune the timing of certain subtitles Spot s karaoke tool CTRL K or SUBTITLE KARAOKE considerably speeds up the whole process Jh Autotime subtitles Karaoke subtitle interval O frames From subtitle To subtitle 1 H gt Pre roll duration Lido Eid End roll duration Current word only E frames Walking in the just the other day baby Split hyphenated words Creating karaoke subtitles Before adding a karaoke effect to a song you need to type and time the lyrics in the same way that you create subtitles for a regular video file Once the song has been subtitled press CTRL K to open the KARAOKE window and follow the steps below Select CREATE KARAOKE SUBTITLES from the ACTION list Ensure that all the subtitles in the file are selected in the FROM SUBTITLE and TO SUBTITLE fields Choose the highlight method the current word or a sweeping effect from left to right Tick the AUTOTIME SUBTITLES box Set the karaoke subtitle interval This is the interval between the karaoke subtitles that make up pro cp dw a single line
25. 2 Ctrl J Ctrl M Paste Add word to AutoReplace Cut Delete line Undo last action Delete word Delete all text in subtitle Move word up Move word down Move row up Move row down Shift subtitles up down in 196 increments Shift subtitle left right in 196 increments Add indent Remove indent Align text with top of screen Align text with middle of screen Align text with bottom of screen Red subtitle text Green subtitle text Yellow subtitle text Blue subtitle text Magenta subtitle text Cyan subtitle text Toggle shot cut marker Function Cue conversion Grab in cue Edit in cue Recalculate in cue Delete in cue Grab out cue Edit out cue Recalculate out cue Delete out cue Offset cues Measurement converter Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Ins Shift Ins Jump to out cue Grab out cue Video control 2 Alt 2 Replay sequence Replay sequence forward Go to next shot cut Frame back Play pause Frame forward Rewind Fast forward Proofing functions Key Function Shift Ctrl F2 Check for too many rows Shift Ctrl F3 Check for margin override F4 Spell check file Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Shift F4 Thesaurus Shift Ctrl F4 Check for invalid cues Shift Ctrl F5 Check for duration too short long Shift Ctrl F6 Check for cues not set Shift Ctrl F7 Check for insufficient reading
26. 4 01 06 15 16 01 06 17 18 01 00 03 12 04 14 03 15 02 04 01 17 02 02 03 12 02 03 03 13 02 01 04 01 01 24 02 12 02 01 04 11 02 01 Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre Centre None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None None Select the subtitles you want to format click while holding down the CTRL key to select multiple individual subtitles or click while holding down the SHIFT key to select a continuous range and then either click the appropriate command on the toolbar select it from the SUBTITLE menu or right click the list and select it from the pop up menu Clicking on each column header will sort the list in ascending order based on that data item but will not affect the current subtitle file This might prove useful as a quick means of checking for empty or untimed subtitles Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide click the SUBTITLE or CUES column for example or listing subtitles in italics subtitles with outlines etc Clicking a header a second time will sort the list based on that item data in descending order To copy subtitles from an existing subtitle file click FILE OPEN As READ ONLY and select the file you want to open
27. IONS PARAMETERS INVALID INTERVAL THRESHOLD setting In either case selecting TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS FORCE DEFAULT INTERVAL WHEN RUNNING INVALID INTERVAL CHECK will replace the incorrect interval with the default interval Empty subtitles SHiFT CTRL F9 Searches the file for subtitles that do not contain any text Raised subtitles no shortcut Searches the file for subtitles which have been raised AutoCheck This is a background process that carries out the checks selected under TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS AUTOCHECK Report View Report View serves two purposes it gives you immediate feedback on subtitle errors and provides detailed statistical information on the current file Press CTRL R or click the Report tab to switch to Report View The types of error listed on the Errors tab are based on the checks selected under TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS ON RUN ALL CHECKS in similar fashion to the F9 check To add or remove an error type click the properties icon on the far right of the tab Errors Statistics o a Ki Eh P Subtitle 1 0024 Invalid interval to next subtitle 0025 Inconsistent in cue 0026 Invalid interval to next subtitle 0027 Inconsistent in cue 0728 In cue not set 0728 Out cue not set 0728 Subtitle contains blank lines dir scito B Ab ie r am Clicking an error in the list selects that subtitle as the current subtitle For example clicking the first occurrence of Inconsistent in c
28. Measurement converter Measurement Converter P 28 Category Decimals Format speed T 2 Delimited Copy Convert From From Value Cancel Miles per hour 5 Convert To To Value To convert a measurement e Select MEASUREMENT CONVERTER from the TOOLS menu e Inthe MEASUREMENT CONVERTER window choose the type of conversion you wish to make from the CATEGORY list e Set the degree of accuracy required using the DECIMAL and FORMAT options e Select the units to convert from and to from the CONVERT FROM and CONVERT TO lists The converter predicts which unit to convert to whenever the unit in CONVERT FROM list is changed e Typethe figure to convert in the FROM VALUE box then press ENTER or click CONVERT The correctly converted measurement will appear in the TO VALUE box To copy this figure into the subtitle you are working on choose CoPv The converter will close and the converted measurement will be copied into the current subtitle Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Script Manager Script Manager TOOLS SCRIPT MANAGER is a tool for preparing scripts for language dubbing You can either create a script and characters from scratch or import the current subtitle file into Script Manager If you choose the latter approach character names are retrieved from the comment fields In this example we will create a script from scratch k Script Manager File
29. Microsoft Excel CSV file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Rough and ready text export Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Sonic DVD Creator script file e Sonya Friedman tab delimited text file e Spruce Maestro STL file e SubRip SRT file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML files e Theatrical spotting list Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Titra theatrical files e Windows Media Player SAMI caption files Select the appropriate format from the list and click OK to open the export dialog Navigate to the location in which to export the file give the file the name you want and then click the Save button The export formats listed below have their own unique export window Spot 5 0 User Guide Spruce Maestro files Selecting Spruce Maestro STL file from the export list and clicking OK opens the Spruce Maestro Text Export window This window lets you configure the global header properties for the STL file as shown below After setting the relevant properties click the Browse button to select a name and location for the STL file then click OK to export the file Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML files Selecting Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML file from the export list and clicking OK opens the DLP Cinema Export window DIP Cinema Export File information Export
30. Press SHIFT ADD to increase the in cue by one frame e Press SHIFT SUBTRACT to decrease the in cue by one frame e Press CTRL ADD to increase the out cue by one frame e Press CTRL SUBTRACT to decrease the out cue by one frame Spot 5 0 User Guide Deleting cues To delete the current in or out cue press CTRL SHIFT F11 or CTRL SHIFT F12 Alternately move to the cue and press DELETE To delete both the in and out cues press SHIFT DEL Note that pressing the BACKSPACE key while in Rehearse mode will erase the To delete all cues forward of and including the current subtitle cues for the previous subtitle and press ALT BACKSPACE or choose DELETE CUES FROM THIS POINT prepare for it to be retimed You should FORWARD from the CUES menu only use this method if spotting live with the spacebar To delete all the cues in the current file CHOOSE DELETE ALL CUES from the CUES menu To delete a range of cues e g from subtitle 35 to subtitle 89 use the Delete Range window SHIFT F6 Recalculating cues To recalculate the out cue press CTRL F12 If the current subtitle contains a valid in cue recalculating the out cue will set this to the in cue plus the time needed to read the subtitle If the subtitle does not contain text the out cue will be set to the in cue plus the default subtitle duration For example if a subtitle contains text that requires three seconds to be read and the in cue is set to 01 10 03 19 the recalculated out cue
31. Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide AutoRecover and timed backups AutoRecover AutoRecover automatically saves your subtitle file as often as you want To enable AutoRecover click TOOLS OPTIONS select the GENERAL AUTORECOVER tab in the OPTIONS window and tick the SAVE AUTORECOVER DATA box AutoRecover General a Jh Save AutoRecover data every 15 minutes Timecode and Video Timed Backups Parameters H Checks v Enable timed backups e Text Editing E Cue Editing E Files Beck up current file before spell checking FH Customise v Do not backup Untitled files Backup current file before saving h When exiting Spot P Move backup folders to the Recyde Bin View restore or delete the contents of a backup folder Move backup folders to the Recyde Bin now How big is my backup folder Expand all nodes If AutoRecover is set to 15 minutes for example Spot will create a copy of the current subtitle file and save it to disk every 15 minutes Should Spot fail to shut down properly i e in the event of a power outage or a problem with Spot itself you will be prompted to recover the last auto saved version of the file you were working on Timed Backups Spot s timed backup utility takes a snapshot of the current file at the interval specified by AutoRecover and saves the information sequentially to disk creating a recoverable hist
32. Spot 5 0 User Guide Spot 5 0 User Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS GETTING STARTED WITH SPOT WE 5 INSTALA TON 5 SM TENPREQUIREME NT tet P 5 se d M5 ise E E E E E E E E DR E a PR 6 TOER FIND EE EAR sec cee eee EA RR SR EAAS 7 Eege Le WEE 9 ee SUBS ances ii ali odio GD neice avec es as DD eee teen eee cree eee ee 9 Moving tothe start and ena Of O 1 Besos ou merit be ouiU turris aaea e Mus MN prO ia ei Gui aa 9 Navigating QR TOU OTIO sair dona nad albeit Emu ERE dea edita imt rl deb ani 9 Moving Oas vece SUOT E eese mde e on onim oc Co da E 9 EDITING AND FORMATTING STELLEN deed 10 Sai TUNG SU Cu ca HX 10 EE 10 Anonimo SUO es Verticais O E eae 10 ae E e E 0E i E eege 10 Adang CODments to S D T OE e E EEE oo vs ae ev cn teens TE tie 11 Ano eege tere EE 11 GEREENT 12 TDS CPW SOI eet 12 BE ee 12 Mer OT E 12 SOE CA een 12 Splitting and merging subtitles cccccsseecccnseecccsesccccsseccnausecsaueeessauseeesauseesaaeeesaueessauseessunsessauaecssausesssunecesaussessaasessaaaseees 12 EE 12 EE 12 sad chile dre cm 13 DECO O 0 T 13 Moving words between TOWS eeeiissseeeeeeee eene nnne Etena nrn REEE ETETE AENEA assis saa assess ssa assess aa
33. T INS to set the current out cue to the target frame e Press CTRL ENTER to set the current in cue to the target frame and simultaneously fix the previous subtitle s out cue i e set it to current in cue default interval If you have set the After selecting the current frame option in the Video Setup Thumbnail window to Update Thumbnails pressing ALT ENTER or ALT INS will cause the thumbnails to update automatically To change this behaviour select Erase thumbnails instead Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Audio waveform display Use the button third from the right on Spot s to hide show the audio waveform display Ea JLA Show hide audio waveform Before this will display anything useful you need to process the audio data in the media file you are working with To do this select PREFERENCES from the VIDEO menu to open the MEDIA PREFERENCES window and then click the AUDIO tab General Media Control Audio Thumbnails Audio data Process audio data when first opening a video file Process Now Audio waveform display Waveform view Mono Floating waveform display Jh Show VU meters Show current subtitle Show previous next subtitles Show timecode markers Audio scrub Audio scrub on frame backward forward Bufferless Audio data If you want Spot to process media files automatically every time you open a new file select the PROCESS A
34. UDIO DATA WHEN FIRST OPENING A VIDEO FILE option It takes approximately one second per minute of video to extract the audio data so a 90 minute film should take around one and a half minutes to complete If you are working with an unprocessed media file click the PRocEss Now button this option will be greyed out if no media file is open Audio pre processing needs to be done only once per video Spot will prompt you to save the data to disk when quitting the current session or opening a new media file Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland s Spot 5 0 User Guide Audio waveform display These options allow you to customise the appearance and position of the waveform and the data displayed within it They are also accessible by clicking the button on the right of the waveform display Selecting or unselecting FLOATING WAVEFORM DISPLAY allows you to dock and undock the waveform Undocking the waveform window means you can size the display any way you want drag it around the screen and position it where it suits you best You can also display the previous current and next subtitles on the waveform and show hide the timecode markers When you hover the mouse over the left or right edge of the current subtitle the cursor will change to an east west arrow This means you can change the in or out cue depending on whether the cursor is over the left or right edge by dragging the mouse left or right To abort the
35. a sss ss saa sss essa assess saa a esses aaa 13 Sw pping lines one ana CWO eot riy rk RARE E YER Eo KU IE AREE REA VR AU VE E UY Ea IE aa VE EUR Ev VE VR EAD EN 13 Toggling text between upper mixed and Jowercgee nennen nennen nsn aane sa assess asas sss s asas sess a ann n 13 COMP ING TON arraia aC Rea er NR MPO quU PxduM UII E I Pa MIN Pad cMEI UEM 13 ty ere COOU RENTRER ERR EET 13 Autonepiace ang ET E 14 UNDO 15 tete 15 CAPTURING AND EDITING e TE 17 CAPTURING C UES E 17 Grao bing GS Edil MORO arrr rr ss cca anasto nes pd Ded E ME MM MM MEER MEME 17 Spotting with the spacebar in Rehearse mode 17 EDIMNCCUES m cad nE nad 18 Editing the in eet 18 Ree 19 Spot 5 0 User Guide Reco Ta P TOT H Tae GUESS sao csc ceed E DD SRD eee gee eee cee 19 EE EE 19 Contholiiha Cue BEN GV OU tere 20 Converting cues between video formats isses seen enean ssa aane suas sss s ssa ss esses ases essa assis sss asas esses aaa sors naa 21 CHECKING AND PROOFING SUBTITLES gess 22 BE EC a MENU c A 22 PATO THE CK EE 23
36. ate command from the Comments menu The comment field in the subtitle edit area has two sizes normal and large as well as two font sizes small and large and can contain an unlimited number of characters Note that not all file formats support comments e g text files and some of those that do are restricted to a certain number of characters Comment fields for the previous and next subtitles can be turned on or off by clicking Show Previous Next Comment Fields When importing the current file into Script Manager all comments are considered to be the names of characters Adding outlines to subtitles To add outlining to a subtitle press CTRL G Notice that the OL indicator is now active To remove outlining from a subtitle press CTRL G again Notice that the OL indicator is now inactive The default outline type can be changed under Tools Options Text Editing Outline to any of the following Not all types of outlining are visible in the video window e None e Boxed outline Not all subtitle file formats support outlining e Ghost boxed outline m Use Quick View to add or remove outlining e Stripe outline p to or from a group of subtitles e Ghost stripe outline Switching to GHOST BOXED OUTLINE for example means that every time you press CTRL G a Ghost boxed outline code will be invisibly added to the whole subtitle Spot 5 0 User Guide Subtitle editing functions Inserting subtitles To insert a subtitle bef
37. ave Video File dialog and select the format and size of the video from the Files of Type list The options are MPEG 1 full size MPEG 1 half size MPEG 2 full size MPEG 2 half size Flash video full size and Flash video half size Full size here means the video size specified in the DisPLAY SETTINGS window Your current display settings also set the font font size and margins used to render the subtitles on the video Once you ve clicked the SAvE button Spot will switch to rehearse mode and begin the encoding process Note that encoding starts at the current point in the video file so press the key on the numerical keypad if you want to encode from the beginning of the video Click the Quick Encode button at any time to interrupt encoding If you notice that some two line subtitles in the encoded video have the first line rendered one frame before the second line select the RENDER ALL LINES BEFORE DISPLAYING option in the VIDEO PREFERENCES window This will add some overhead to the encoding process and as a result you may have to change the SUBTITLE SYNC DELAY setting in the ADVANCED ENCODER SETTINGS window Advanced encoder settings Video and audio The video and audio tabs let you control the frame rate bitrate bitrate mode audio format and sampling rate of the output video file A higher bitrate will result in a higher quality but larger video file Upsample video when required Selecting this option will resize the source video to th
38. can be changed in the VIDEO MEDIA PREFERENCES window Rewind Run backwards at twice normal speed no audio If the pause button is depressed jump backwards in one second intervals Fast forward Run forwards at twice normal speed with audio If the pause button is depressed jump forwards in one second intervals Spot 5 0 User Guide Frame back Slow motion backwards 7 fps no audio If the pause button is depressed jump backwards one frame Frame forward Slow motion forwards 7 fps with audio If the pause button is depressed jump forwards one frame Jump to last shot cut Move backwards through the file to the last shot cut entry Find last timecode offset Move backwards through the file to the last timecode offset Jump to in cue Jump to the position within the video file relative to the current subtitle s in cue Jump to out cue Jump to the position within the video file relative to the current subtitle s out cue Jump to next shot cut Move forwards through the file to the next shot cut entry Find next timecode offset Move forwards through the file to the next timecode offset Offset timecode Open the offset timecode window Open media file Open a media file The button displays the name of the current media file while the mouse is hovering over it Load timecode file Load a tcd timecode file Note that Spot will look for an associated tcd file when opening a digital video file so it will not norma
39. cellaneous Spot settings Two log files Spot log and debug log are stored in the Spot installation folder The first contains start up diagnostic information whilst the second contains error debugging data To enable error debugging select the option LOG ERRORS TO DEBUG FILE in the OPTIONS window Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Frequently Asked Questions General The spell checker isn t working Spot uses Microsoft Word to spell check subtitles so if a version of Word is not installed on your computer you cannot use the spell checker or the thesaurus If you do have Word installed and the spell checker is still not working make sure you have the correct language selected in Spot s language bar above the video window can t type in capitals Select TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS AUTO CHECK and turn off the CORRECT TWO INITIAL CAPITALS option can t raise subtitles using Ctrl Alt Up Down If nothing happens when you press Ctrl Alt Up Down then another program on your computer usually the software installed by your graphics card has most likely hijacked the key combination You need to find out which program is the culprit and then change or disable the key sequence Spot adds a space between letters in abbreviations such as U S A Select TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS AUTO CHECK and turn off the INSERT SPACE AFTER PUNCTUATION option How do I set a fixed number of characters per
40. code and click OK Enter Product Key Please enter your 35 character product key in the field below Make sure you are connected to the Internet before proceeding BGEZ2EFEBA 2010 A811 55EDAESFF 10FSAFES Spot will start once the key has been validated You will be asked to enter your product key each time you install and run the program for the first time on a new machine so make sure you keep it safe You are allowed a maximum of five activations In other words you may install Spot up to five times on different computers System requirements e 256 MB of RAM e 2 GB available hard disk space if bitmap export required e 32 MB graphics card capable of displaying 32 bit colour at 1024 x 600 minimum resolution e Sound card e Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 To capture video to your hard disk you will require either e Acompatible video capture card or e an MPEG or similar encoder To subtitle from VHS you will also require e Acompatible video capture card with WDM DirectX driver e An Adrienne timecode reader board Spot 5 0 User Guide Screen layout Main toolbar Font toolbar Previous subtitle duration guide Bl Spot 5 0 CAVIDEOSDAYGLO SAT ejm amp File Edit Subtitle Cues Vivo Tools Checks cy Hee fad Vo Deh SEB 8 B IE Wide z Arial gt 16 Regular vo Po English UK hd Previous Vid eg Ideo WINGOW subtitle and every day you had to feed them Subti
41. current file the Properties window will prompt you to add this information before exporting Spot 5 0 User Guide Translation You can translate a word sentence subtitle or complete subtitle file using the translate tool TOOLS TRANSLATE Translate Translate The current subtitle Store the result in The text box below Warn if codepages conflict Select what to translate from the dropdown list text in the text field the current subtitle or the current subtitle file and then choose the source and target languages Next select where to store the translation in the text box at the bottom of the window or in the comment or subtitle fields in the main Spot window be aware that the last two options will overwrite any existing content Click the OK button when you are ready If you are translating between languages that belong to different codepages e g from English to Hebrew and are storing the result in the subtitle or comment field Spot will prompt to change the selected codepage for the current subtitle file if the WARN IF CODEPAGES CONFLICT option is selected The translation tool uses Google s translation engine and as a result requires an active Internet connection Translating a whole file may take several minutes to complete depending on the size of the file and your Internet connection speed Certain characters such as apostrophes or italic markers may return from Google in the form of escape codes e g Nu0
42. d a saved configuration click LOAD DISPLAY SETTINGS FILE on the GENERAL tab or right click the video window and select PRESET DISPLAY SETTINGS Display settings can be linked to a profile and automatically loaded when the profile is loaded Spot 5 0 User Guide Burning subtitles to video Using the Encoder You can burn subtitles into a video stream and output the result in MPEG 1 MPEG 2 or FLV Flash format using the encoder TOOLS ENCODER Burning subtitles is a five step process 9 Encoder Source and target files 1 Select source video Output Folder C Wideos D Subtitle Stream 2 Select output folder Encoder setup MPEG 2 DVD PAL sel fa Advanced 3 Select subtitle stream 4 Select output format 5 Set encoding options Encode Select the source video If a video file is loaded in Spot the file will already be listed Select the output folder This is where the output video will be stored The name given to the encoded video is based on the current subtitle file name plus the extension mpg or flv if you are creating a Flash video file 3 Select the subtitle stream You will be prompted to create a new subtitle stream from the current subtitle file or open an existing subtitle stream Information on creating subtitle streams is covered in the Exporting Bitmap Files topic Spot attempts to simplify the process of creating a subtitle stream by filling in most of the fields in t
43. dd if frame count gt a x a ome ta Italic caption text Italic description caption text Italic Sung Timecode jw Close Script Manager after exporting file OK Cancel jw Close Script Manager after exporting file OK Cancel Characters The Characters frame lets you choose which characters to include in the script all or just those selected in the list It also sets other options such as the formatting applied to the character name and whether to omit the name of the character in consecutive lines Script format The Layout dropdown determines the format of the exported file script style in which characters are listed on the left and their cues on the right or documentary style in which characters and text are both left aligned The timecode format for cue in times can be set to HH MM SS FF e g 10 23 15 04 HH MM SS e g 10 23 15 or MM SS e g 23 15 If either of these last two options are selected you can additionally specify whether to add a or sign to show the approximate the frame position Script header Select the fields to include in the script header by ticking the appropriate box Note that the text for each field s sub items is user definable Your final script can be exported in HTML or Microsoft Excel CSV format To export to HTML the recommended file type as all formatting is retained press Ctrl E or click the Internet button on the toolbar If you have not yet filled in the properties for the
44. e Once the file has loaded it will start playing automatically this behaviour can be changed in the VIDEO MEDIA PREFERENCES window If you are working with a new media file you may want to pause the video at this point and generate internal timecode for the file Syncing media files If you want Spot s internal timecode clock to run in sync with the burnt in timecode BITC on a video you need to sync the two the first time you open the video file To do this e Move to the first frame in the video file e Click the OFFSET TIMECODE button on the video toolbar e Typethe BITC displayed on the video in the text box e Click OK To check that the file does not contain any dropped frames move to the end of the video Spot s internal timecode display in the centre of the video status panel should match the BITC If it doesn t one or more frames have been lost during encoding To find these frames and correct the timecode e Drag the video position slider to the halfway mark If the timecode is still out drag it to the quarter mark e Continue in this fashion 1 2 1 4 1 8 1 16 etc until Spot s internal timecode matches the BITC e Move forward one second frame at a time until you find the missing frame e Ensure the video is positioned on the missing frame For example BITC reads 10 21 02 18 Spot s timecode reads 10 21 02 17 e Click the OFFSET TIMECODE button e Type the BITC displayed on the video in the offset text b
45. e cursor to the out cue field If the cue contains a valid timecode part or all of the cue will be highlighted depending on the settings you have selected under TOOLS OPTIONS CUE EDIT WHEN MOVING TO VALID CUES e Typethe new out cue or use the UP and DOWN keys to increase or decrease the out cue by one frame at a time If you hold down the SHIFT key while pressing the UP or DOWN keys the cue you are editing will be increased or decreased by 6 frames holding down the CTRL key will increase or decrease the cue by 11 frames and holding down both the Suirr and CTRL keys will increase or decrease the cue by 16 frames If the in cue contains a valid time code Spot automatically calculates the out cue for you This is based on the amount of text in the current subtitle or the default duration setting if the caption is empty For example if the current subtitle s in cue is 00 10 34 16 and the text in the subtitle requires two seconds to be read the out cue will be set to 00 10 36 16 If no text is present the default subtitle duration will be used instead Similarly if the in cue field is empty but the previous subtitle contains a valid out cue Spot will calculate the in and out cue of the current subtitle You can turn both these features off by deselecting the TOOLS OPTIONS CUE EDIT WHEN MOVING TO EMPTY OUT CUE CALCULATE IN AND OUT CUE option The keyboard can be used to change the in or out cue without moving to the in or out cue field e
46. e selected under TOOLS OPTIONS TEXT EDITING Although the alignment in the edit area will remain the same the preview in the video window will reflect the change Lines can be indented e g for closed caption work by pressing CTRL ALT RIGHT Press CTRL ALT LEFT to remove indenting You can also shift subtitles left and right in one percent steps using SHIFT ALT LEFT RIGHT Use Quick View to change the horizontal alignment of a group of subtitles Aligning subtitles vertically Press CTRL ALT UP DOWN to raise or lower subtitles Use CTRL ALT 1 CTRL ALT 2 and CTRL ALT 3 to position subtitles at the top centre or bottom of the screen Subtitles can be shifted up and down in one percent steps using SHIFT ALT UP DOWN Sometimes you might need to align a subtitle at the bottom of the screen with information such as the speaker s name at the top of the screen To do this type the text for the top row press ENTER and type the first line of the subtitle text Next press HOME to move to the start of the line and then continue to press ENTER until the first row snaps to the top of the screen Use Quick View to change the vertical alignment of a group of subtitles Italicising subtitles Italics can be applied either to whole subtitles or to individual words and phrases Press F3 to italicise a whole subtitle To remove italic formatting press F3 again To add italics to single words or phrases select the text you wish to italicise and press
47. e target output video size allowing for much higher quality subtitles as it enables them to be drawn at the correct size and not stretched The INTERPOLATION option specifies the method used to resize the video from Nearest neighbour lowest quality to Cubic highest quality The INTERLACING and FIELD PROCESSING options should only be changed by users with advanced technical knowledge Spot 5 0 User Guide Overlay BITC on video Select this option if you want to overlay timecode window on the output video The window is centred on the image its vertical position is set using the Y POSITION dropdown Overlay spoiler image on video Lets you overlay a spoiler image on the output video Click the SELECT IMAGE button to select the image and use the IMAGE OPACITY slider to set its transparency Output separate audio and video streams Outputs the video as two separate streams one video one audio Maximum encoding speed Encodes the video as quickly as possible Unselect this option only if you are encountering encoding problems Auto offset subtitles Offsets subtitle cues to midnight A video that was subtitled with a starting timecode of 10 00 00 00 for example will Advanced Encoder Settings Video Audio Frame rate Aspect ratio Bitrate kbit s La 97 Bitrate mode Manual VER 1 1 bul Bitrate min 1000 1500 k Bitrate max 1500 Ke Output Falder Jh Upsample video when required I
48. eline Ceiling L margin R margin Centre 450 38 l o OD o o Leading Kerning o Onedine subtitles on row 10 Row 1 subtitles to ceiling Error logging v Empty subtitles Subtitle exceeds margins v Subtitle overrides ceiling setting he quick brown fox jumped over Set Text Preview Zoom x 5 Use Current Open Save The baseline defines the bottom most vertical position of the last line in a subtitle including all descenders This value should never exceed the height of the bitmap or part of the subtitle will be invisible and should normally be set to 9096 of the bitmap height Leading is used to control the vertical spacing between subtitle lines whereas kerning sets the horizontal distance between individual characters The colour mapping and contrast fields apply to DVD bitmaps only Check with your client to find out what settings are required If you want Spot to warn you of any errors it encounters while creating the bitmaps tick the ERROR LOGGING box and select any of the options below Fortunately you do not have to set all the options in the bitmap export window every time you export a subtitle stream When the Export button is clicked the current configuration is saved You can also save and load different setups using the Open and Save buttons or click the Use Current button to match the bitmap export settings to the current display settings Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot
49. eo Media Preferences Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Ins Shift Ins Jump to out cue Grab out cue Go to start of video ii Go to end of video Del Toggle shot cut marker Keyboard shortcuts by function Subtitle functions Text editing functions Key Function Ctrl Shift Ctrl 0 to 9 Alt 0 to 9 F2 Shift F2 Ctrl F2 F3 Ctrl C Ctrl E Ctrl F Ctrl G Ctrl H Ctrl I Ctrl L Ctrl T Insert special characters Insert custom characters Align all text left right or centre Force current line left right or centre Swap lines Italicise whole subtitle Copy File Export Find Subtitle outline Replace Italicise single word Toggle case Best fit The default behaviour of the Ins and Shift Ins keys is set under Video Media Preferences Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Ctrl V Ctrl W Ctrl X Ctrl Y Ctrl Z Ctrl Del Shift Ctrl Del Alt Up Ctrl Up Alt Down Ctrl Down Ctrl Alt Up Ctrl Alt Down Shift Alt Up Down Shift Alt Left Right Ctrl Alt Right Ctrl Alt Left Ctrl Alt 1 Ctrl AIt 2 Ctrl Alt 3 Right Ctrl 1 Shift Alt 1 Right Ctrl 2 Shift Alt 2 Right Ctrl 3 Shift Alt 3 Right Ctrl 4 Shift Alt 4 Right Ctrl 5 Shift Alt 5 Right Ctrl 6 Shift Alt 6 Del Cue editing functions Key Shift F8 F11 Shift F11 Ctrl F11 Shift Ctrl F11 F12 Shift F12 Ctrl F12 Shift Ctrl F1
50. eo Type the name you want to give the ASX file in the Media content ASX file name field and the name of the video in the Video clip field Click the Paragraph Style tab to set the font and font size used for the captions Click the Language Streams tab if you want to add more languages to the ASX file Spot 5 0 User Guide Exporting bitmap files To create subtitles for Spot s subtitle encoder DVD or Blu ray authoring systems you need to provide subtitles in the form of bitmaps subpictures rather than text Click CTRL D or select FILE EXPORT BITMAPS to open the Bitmap Export window The window is divided into three sections Export tab The Export tab is where you specify general file information such as the target system and the name of the bitmap stream C TempWideos Browse New Target system Subtitle language Spot subtitle stream M en English Index file name Bitmap stream root name Index file extension z0987a 205873 sbs Blu ray or EDL title Blu ray format een D custom index file header Edit A BDN version 0 93 compliant Set Text Preview Zoom x 7 Use Current Open Save The first item that needs setting is the target system as this determines which options and formats are available for creating the bitmaps Next choose where to export the bitmaps to by selecting a previously used location from the dropdown Export folder list or navigating to a folder using the Brow
51. ext file e Closed caption text file e SDI Media Group formatted text file e Greek DreamWorks file obsolete e Hoek en Son pouse voice over text file e MicroDVD SUB file e PMWin OVR file e Screen Subtitling Systems RAC file e Screen Subtitling Systems structured ASCII file e Softni text file e Sonic DVD Creator script file e Spruce Maestro STL file e SubRip SRT file e Tab separated DVD script file e Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML file e Titra theatrical file e Windows Media Player SAMI caption file Select the appropriate format from the list click OK to open the import dialog then navigate to and select the file you want to import If the file you are importing is in a different language or timecode format from the current Spot settings select the option Confirm file language and or Confirm video standard before importing the file Importing only text or cues Sometimes you may want to import only the text or cues from a subtitle file and ignore other information To do this use the File Merge menu Merge text as subtitles Replaces all subtitle text with the text from the selected file Cues and comments in the current file remain untouched Merge text as comments Imports all the subtitles from the selected file and stores them in the comment field Subtitles and cues in the current file remain untouched Merge cues and text as comments Imports all the subtitles and cues from the selected file Subtit
52. ey to Enabling thumbnail support will only take effect the next time you open a video file unless you have selected the Use SpotCut thumbnails if available option force the thumbnails to be redrawn If you find that the thumbnails update too slowly selecting the RUN THUMBNAILS IN SEPARATE VIDEO WINDOW option might help Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland A Spot 5 0 User Guide Back in Spot s main screen you need to click the SHOW HIDE THUMBNAILS button on the far right of the toolbar to bring up the thumbnail window The window can be dragged around the screen and positioned where you like and will remember where it was the next time you open it Current frame The window displays the current video frame in the middle highlighted by a white box the previous seven frames and the next seven frames only two are shown in the screen shot above To select a target frame in all probability a shot cut use the ALT LEFT RIGHT arrow keys You ll notice that two things happen when you do this e Alighter box moves left or right along the thumbnail window e The video in Spot s main screen reflects the current position within the thumbnail window In other words if you press ALT LEFT arrow twice the video will rewind two frames Currently selected frame Original frame You can now do one of several things e Press ALT ENTER to set the current in cue to the target frame e Press AL
53. folder and file name Movie title Reel number File type KE 1 v 30 Y Language Screen size DC version Close initial font Trim header fields Encoding urr s D French D Fiat 1998 x 1080 D 1 0 D No DI Global font 1 Name Size Arial D 42 D Weight Leading Spacing Aspect Adjust Normal DI 10 D oem M M Text colour alpha Effect Effect colour alpha 255 D Border D E Subtitle Preview 63 14 63 14 Alignment Fade up Fade down Dynamic v 20 20 Y Left margin Rightmargin Ceiling 10 D 10 D 10 D _ Bottom up VAlgn Subtitle Z offset Indude basic font information only fi gt Inherit ml ly Round all position values Load Setup Save Setup Default Load Z Range Load Z Offsets Save Z Offsets Export XML File Cancel Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Spot can create DCl compliant 2D or 3D subtitle files For 3D files you need to assign offsets to each subtitle the Z depth value You can do this manually using the X offset slider or you can import a previously prepared list of offsets using the Load Z Offsets button Spot will generate two XML files one for the left eye Filename_Left xml and one for the right eye Filename_Right xml The Z depth values in the second file are created automatically by Spot based on the values in the first file If the Z offse
54. fps you need to select PAL to NTSC Conversion type NDF Telecined masters eo ui Set the Start of programme field to match the hour at which PAL to NTSC NDF the file begins click the OK button and the file will be converted from PAL to NTSC NDF Start of programme 2 00 00 00 4 E ale After converting switch to Rehearse mode to check that the file is in sync with the new video If it isn t the original master might have been running at a slightly slower speed for example you may have to adjust the coefficients used to carry out the conversion These are listed on the Advanced tab Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Checking and proofing subtitles Using the Checks menu The Checks menu performs global checks on a subtitle file starting at the current subtitle which means you need to move to the start of the file to check every subtitle You can run a single check such as Check for invalid cues by using the respective shortcut or run a group of checks simultaneously by pressing F9 You configure which checks to include in this group in the TOOLS OPTIONS CHECKS ON RUN ALL CHECKS INCLUDE window The checks and their respective shortcuts are listed below Too many rows SHIFT CTRL F1 An F9 checks stops on a Searches for subtitles that contain more rows than the TooLS OPTIONS PARAMETERS MAXIMUM LINES PER
55. guiram aos ataques os respons veis federais atribuiram a responsabilidade a Osama Bin Laden e rede terrorista da Al Qaeda 01 00 23 Mas um grupo coeso de te ricos da conspira o diz que o governo dos Estados Unidos encobriu o que realmente se Passou 01 00 30 Ao longo da Historia a busca de explica es para acontecimentos chocantes que abalaram o mundo como o ataque a Pearl Harbor e o assassinato do Presidente Kennedy fez surgir teorias contr rias s conclus es oficiais O 11 de Setembro e um desses acontecimentos Ln 20 Col 1 CAPS NUM IMS SCRL Al TP CIT Ts Notebook TooLS NOTEBOOK is a rich text WSYIWYG editor similar to Windows Wordpad but with several extra features It might prove useful for subtitlers working on documentary narrative files as it allows timecode to be inserted automatically rather than typed manually To insert timecode press F4 or select INCOMING TIMECODE from the INSERT menu Click FORMAT TIMECODE FORMAT to specify how the timecode is formatted You can choose between HH MM SS FF HH MM SS or MM SS and replace the colon separator with a full stop or hyphen Notebook has its own autosave feature To turn on this option click FiLE ENABLE AUTOSAVE You might find that Spot s Script Manager utility is better suited to your needs if you are preparing dubbing scripts or translating documentaries Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide
56. he focus i e when opening another window within the program Notebook has unlimited undo and redo Quick View The Quick View window CTRL Q or SUBTITLE QUICK VIEW lets you apply changes to a group or range of subtitles It also allows you to copy subtitles from other files El Quick View File Edit Cues gals BxiBESESIIBH B e Nr Subtile SSS 13 Diz ao teu agenteque foste magnifica 14 Eu apoio a tua hist riase ele telefonar Estava a come ar a pensar que n oias aceitar o meu convite Lor Para um vampiro s um p ssimo mentiroso SANGUE FRESCOA Impiedosa Hannah Dizthes para se irem embora Pode ser qualquer pessoa Quem est ai Isabel da cimeira E quem este Chama se Hugo meu Pude ver como ficaste preocupadopelo facto da Sookie se ir infiltrar na Sociedades pensei que o Hugo podia ajudar E por que raz onos quererias ajudar Porque o Godric amp o meu xerifee n o vosso Seria criminoso da minha partedeixar vos correr esse risco Cues 10 01 20 02 10 01 22 11 10 01 30 20 10 01 35 10 10 01 37 17 10 02 57 14 10 03 26 02 10 03 34 03 10 03 35 13 10 03 41 11 10 03 45 11 10 03 53 17 10 0 55 tt 10 03 53 03 10 04 01 13 10 04 05 03 n 10 01 22 03 10 01 24 10 10 01 33 20 10 01 37 00 10 01 39 16 10 03 01 18 10 03 29 10 10 03 35 04 10 03 36 24 10 03 44 08 10 03 46 16 10 03 55 18 10 03 58 18 10 04 00 22 10 04 04 07 10 04 07 09 01 01 01 11 02 23 01 05 02
57. he Bitmap Export window based on your current display settings If you omit the name of the subtitle stream Spot will ask you if you want to convert the file without adding subtitles This may be useful if you simply want to upsample or convert an existing video file 4 Select the output format There are six preset formats MPEG 1 PAL NTSC VCD MPEG 1 PAL NTSC SVCD MPEG 2 PAL NTSC DVD and four user definable formats MPEG 1 MPEG 2 PS MPEG 2 TS and Flash Video The size of the preset formats cannot be changed 5 Setencoding options in the Advanced Encoder Settings window Click the Encode button to start the burning process Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Using Quick Encode Quick Encode lets you burn subtitles to video with one click without the need to offset cues or create subtitle bitmap streams Before quick encoding you must make sure that 1 The subtitle file you want to encode is loaded in Spot The video source file is open in Spot The option Use VMRO9 to render subtitles was selected in the VIDEO PREFERENCES window before you opened the source video If it wasn t open the video again 4 You have set the desired video and audio settings in the Advanced Encoder Settings window When you are ready to encode click the Quick Encode button on the video toolbar if the button is disabled then check points 2 and 3 above Type the name of the output file in the S
58. hed to it Characters in lines Required one and two reading speed Lines in subtitle In cue Duration Row Outline Out cue 10 lo Rib 22 35 9 00 01 11 07 04 24 00 01 16 06 SEENEN Compare with subtitle 275 They d be easy to feed as they re animals we keep at home Safe area override Comment ail ail Colour coded duration One second tick marks Maximum ideal Minimum ideal duration duration Using the TAB key While the cursor is flashing in the main edit area press the TAB key e onceto move to the in cue e twice to move to the duration field e three times to move to the out cue e four times to move to the comment field e five times to move back to the subtitle text Use SHIFT TAB to move in the reverse direction Pressing the Esc key from any of these fields will take you back to the main edit area Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Basic navigation Moving between subtitles Use the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys to move to the previous and next subtitle Clicking the previous and next subtitle boxes has the same effect Moving to the start and end of a file Press CTRL PAGE UP to jump to the first subtitle in the file and CTRL PAGE DOWN to jump to the last subtitle Navigating quickly through a file Drag or click within the vertical scroll bar on the far right of the main screen Moving to a specific subtitle Press F5 to open the Go To window
59. ideo timecode is 10 26 08 04 pressing CTRL ENTER will e Set the in cue for the current subtitle to 10 26 08 04 e Set the last out cue to 10 26 08 01 i e the current in cue minus the default interval In similar fashion CTRL INS grabs the out cue whilst simultaneously locking the next in cue Spotting with the spacebar in Rehearse mode e Switch to Rehearse mode if necessary press F8 or click REHEARSE on the VIEW bar e Press and hold down the spacebar to bring in a subtitle Notice that the subtitle duration indicator beneath the main edit area starts to move e Release the spacebar when you want the subtitle to come out Ideally the duration indicator will now lie in between the two ideal duration indicators If you make a mistake and want to re subtitle one or more subtitles you can use any of the following methods e Position the video at the point at which you wish to start re subtitling press and hold down the CTRL key and continue subtitling as normal Holding the CTRL key down overrides any cues that have already been assigned e Switch to Edit mode F8 move to the subtitle where you wish to begin re subtitling and then press ALT BACKSPACE This will delete all cues forward of and including the current subtitle e Press the BACKSPACE key once for every subtitle you want to re spot This method is particularly useful if you have brought a subtitle in too early and still have time to react AutoRecover and timed backups
60. ift Ctrl F12 Delete out cue Ctrl A Select all Ctrl B Toggle audio balance left right stereo Ctrl C Copy Ctrl D Bitmap export Ctrl E File Export Ctrl F Find Ctrl G Subtitle outline Ctrl H Replace Ctrl I Italicise single word Ctrl J Offset cues Ctrl K Karaoke Ctrl L Toggle case Ctrl M Manage comments Ctrl N New file Ctrl O Open file Ctrl P Print Ctrl Q Quick View Ctrl R Report View Ctrl S Save file Ctrl T Best fit Ctrl U Find subtitle at current video position Ctrl V Paste Ctrl W Add word to AutoReplace Ctrl X Cut Ctrl Y Delete line Ctrl Z Undo last action Page Up Move to previous subtitle Ctrl Page uP Move to start of file Page Down Move to next subtitle Ctrl Page Down Move to end of file Shift Add Increase in cue by one frame Shift Subtract Decrease in cue by one frame Ctrl Add Increase out cue by one frame Ctrl Subtract Decrease out cue by one frame Shift Del Delete in and out cues Ctrl Del Delete word Shift Ctrl Del Delete all text in subtitle Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland BENT Spot 5 0 User Guide Frame forward LD 1 10 Rewind N Replay from last play position Fast forward WO Enter Shift Enter Jump to in cue Grab in cue For this and the following five items the Shift Alt number combination affects individual lines Use Ctrl number for individual words The default behaviour of the Enter and Shift Enter keys is set under Vid
61. iles Spot will read only the first timecode in the file Use VMRS to render subtitles requires video restart The VMRO9 render option forces Spot to draw jw Show subtitle data in fullscreen mode E subtitles directly into the video stream rather Force video frame alignment than overlay subtitles on the video window If subtitles do not appear tick the RGB32 COLOUR SPACE box and reopen the video Some systems Minimise processor usage OK Cancel may not update subtitles drawn this way when the video is paused If this happens select the FORCE FRAME REFRESH WHEN PAUSED option When running a quick encoding session you might find that in a two line subtitle the first line is drawn one frame before the second line To correct this tick the RENDER ALL LINES BEFORE DISPLAYING box Selecting the SHOW SUBTITLE DATA IN FULLSCREEN MODE option tells Spot to display information about the current subtitle in the top left corner of the video when running in fullscreen mode as shown below File Edit Subtitle Cues Video Tools Checks Help 0003 00 00 01 20 00 02 10 05 07 04 00 02 17 07 Timecode Subtitle number Duration In cue Out cue Spot 5 0 User Guide Media Control The MEDIA CONTROL tab lets you customise the keys Media Preferences used to control media file Keyboard The OFFSET fields let you jump to within a certain an Play Pause number of frames of a shot cut rather than direct
62. is automatically resized whenever you change the size of Spot s main window If you maximise Spot you will maximise the video window Spot 5 0 User Guide Reference Keyboard shortcuts by key Key Function F1 Help F2 Align subtitle left right or centre Shift F2 Force current line left right or centre Ctrl F2 Swap lines Shift Ctrl F2 Check for too many rows Italicise whole subtitle n W Shift Ctrl F3 Check for margin override n D Spell check file Ctrl F4 Translate Shift F4 Thesaurus Shift Ctrl F4 Check for invalid cues Go to subtitle number Ctrl F5 Insert subtitle before Shift F5 Insert subtitle after Shift Ctrl F5 Check for duration too short long Adjust display settings Shift F6 Delete Range Ctrl F6 Delete Subtitle Shift Ctrl F6 Check for cues not set Open media file n Ul O N Shift F7 Full screen video Ctrl F7 Merge current and next subtitle Shift Ctrl F7 Check for insufficient reading speed Rehearse Shift F8 Cue conversion Ctrl F8 Split subtitle at insertion point Shift Ctrl F8 Check for default interval override Run all checks n WO Shift F9 Continue checks from next subtitle Shift Ctrl F9 Check for empty subtitles F Grab in cue Shift F11 Edit in cue Ctrl F11 Recalculate in cue Shift Ctrl F11 Delete in cue F12 Grab out cue Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland G Spot 5 0 User Guide Shift F12 Edit out cue Ctrl F12 Recalculate out cue Sh
63. king the CHARACTER DATA tab and double clicking the character s name To edit a line in the script just select it in the script list or move to it using PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP Once the script is complete you might want to set one or more export options before exporting the script in HTML format Click FILE EXPORT OPTIONS to open the options window Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Script Manager export options The export options window is split into two sections GENERAL and SCRIPT HEADER Senpt Manager Export Options Characters lw Translator iw Summary Print selected characters only Translator caption text Summary caption text Translator Summary v Notes Notes caption text v Main and supporting character list Do notrepeat character name in consecutive cues Main characters caption text Supporting characters caption text Indude gender m f in script header character list Main characters Supporting characters Print character name in bold font First cue caption text Total lines caption text Script format First cue lines Layout w Formatting key script H Formatting caption text Formatting description caption text Font name Font size Formatting Description Verdana el 2 10 points Bold caption text Bold description caption text Bod Fistme Underline caption text Underline description caption text Indude out time Undeine a A
64. ld blank the initial directory in the open and save dialogs will be the current Windows folder Remember last File Open and File Save As location Selecting this option will force Spot to open a file in the same folder used in the last file open operation and save a file in the same folder used in the last file save operation Opening and importing files There are two ways of opening a subtitle file in Spot File Open or File Import Spot s internal file format SPT and four of the most common subtitle file formats Screen Subtitling Systems PAC files ScanTitling 890 files EBU STL files and text files are opened from the File Open menu These files can be saved without the need to change format Other file formats DVD text files SubRip text files closed caption files etc are opened from the File Import window These files must either be saved as one of the four main file types or exported via the File Export window Opening files To open any of the common subtitle file types listed above e Press CTRL O choose Open from the File menu or click the File Open button on the standard toolbar The Open subtitle file dialog will appear e Select the type of file you want to open from the Files of type box e Select the file you want to open and then click OK or double click the file When you open a PAC file Spot prompts you for the file language If you always open the same language files you can turn the prompt off under Tools
65. leave this set to normal although for videos containing a lot of fast action sequences you might want to experiment with a lower sensitivity setting Colour space Unless the program cannot process a particular file leave this setting on Auto Binary output format Some video files have their first frame encoded twice To prevent this causing frame numbering errors in Spot select the SAMPLE COMPENSATED option Readable output format Sets the format of the readable shot cut data Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Once the video has been processed the shot cut data is saved to disk in the same folder as the video The name of the file is identical to the name of the video file but with the extension scd If the video file were MyMpeg mpg for example the resultant shot cut data file would be named MyMpeg mpg scd The scd file is in binary format and can only be read by Spot Back in Spot you need to load the scd file To do this click the small black arrow to the right of the Open Video File button and select Load shot cut file Navigate to the location of the scd file and open it Note that this operation only has to be carried out once per video as the shot cut data will be saved as part of the tcd file You can now navigate between the previous and next shot cuts in the video using the numpad keys 1 and 3 This is particularly helpful when used in conjunction with the Ctrl E
66. les are stored in the comment field Subtitles in the current file remain untouched Spot 5 0 User Guide Saving and exporting files Just as there are two ways of opening a subtitle file in Spot there are always two ways of saving a file File Save or File Export Saving files Files can be saved in SPT Spot s internal format PAC Screen Subtitling Systems 890 ScanTitling STL European Broadcast Union and text format You can configure various options for saving these files in the Tools Options Files File Types window For example you can set whether the EBU file you are saving is for teletext or open subtitles whether to use double height text and so on Exporting files To export other file types click File Export to open the Export window You can export 20 different file formats e Adobe Encore CS3 text file e Avid DS Nitris text file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Caption Inc CIN file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Cheetah CAP file e DVD and Blu ray authoring systems see EXPORTING BITMAP FILES below e FAB shortform text file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Flash XML file e Formatted text file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e Gelula RTF file e Hoek en Son pouse voice over text file Click the Options button to configure how the file is exported e MicroDVD sub file e
67. lly be necessary to keep reopening timecode files when restarting a session Load shot change file Load an scd shot change file generated by SpotCut see below Export shot change data Export current shot change data in text format Save data to disk Save current timecode and shot cut data to disk Spot will automatically save this data at the end of each session or prompt you to save but it might be wise to save at regular intervals anyway Close video Closes the current video file Delete video format flag Deletes the video frame rate file allowing you to reopen the file with a different frame rate Recently opened media file list A list of recently opened media files Clicking a file in the list will open it Spot 5 0 User Guide Using the keyboard The default keys for controlling media playback are shown below All are user configurable VIDEO MEDIA PREFERENCES End of video Decrease playback Start of video speed 100 10 Replay from last i Aes N E play position Lock 1 e Fast forward Rewind Ro p Home Increase playback speed 10 100 Frame back Frame forward Play pause Last shot cut Go to in cue Grab in cue Go to out cue Grab out cue Replay sequence Toggle shot cut Next shot cut Holding down a key will cause it to repeat so holding down the frame back key with the pause button depressed for example will allow you to move in apparent slow motion backwards or at normal speed de
68. lur 2 blur 3 and subsampled may also be used Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide If one of the blur font effects is selected you can choose to add a drop shadow to the subtitle This option is disabled for all other font effects Four options are available for the subsampled font effect only PASSES the number of Gaussian blurs to apply to the bitmap FORMAT the type of blurring to use CONTRAST the subtitle text contrast and ALPHA CORRECT If you want to add outlining to subtitles choose one of the options from the SUBTITLE OUTLINING list note that the opacity of the outlining cannot be selected for four colour target systems The height of the outlining is controlled using the VERTICAL PADDING dropdown list The table below summarises the various format options available for different target systems Note that some target systems may support more than one type of bitmap you should find out from your client the exact format required for their particular system Target System Image type Bitmap format Font effect Any 8 or 24 bit BMP or TIFF 1 to 6 only M Fit to subtitle 8 or 24 bit BMP or TIFF 1 to 6 only Any Spruce Maestro 8 or 24 bit BMP or TIFF 1 to 6 only Fit to subtitle 8 or 24 bit BMP or TIFF 1 to 6 only Spot 5 0 User Guide Advanced tab Use the ADVANCED tab to set positioning and other information pen NENNEN Export Format Advanced Positioning Bas
69. ly to E HF the shot cut itself This might be useful if a client Frame forward requires subtitles to come in one frame after a shot Hk cut for example Replay sequence Replay length 2 E 75 frames Jump back only The SwiTCH TO REHEARSE EDIT WHEN PRESSING PLAY PAUSE option lets you toggle between re hea rse a nd edit Last shot change Next shot change Toggle ehot change modes with a single key press Pressing the play i E zl ps button will put Spot into rehearse mode and start Offset o offset fo sl video playback pressing the pause button will put wf E sue E EE Spot into edit mode and pause the video w to Hesse ik nhen pressing PVE OK Cancel Audio The Audio tab sets options for the audio waveform display See the next topic for more information Thumbnails Media Preferences I In order to use Spot s thumbnail feature you need to enable thumbnail support 7 Enable thumbnail support The AFTER SELECTING THE CURRENT FRAME option applies only when used in conjunction with the After selecting the current frame ALT LEFT RIGHT and ALT ENTER INS combination Ree You can set the thumbnail window to When pressing the pause button automatically update itself whenever you press gt the video pause button If you would rather Use SpotCut thumbnails if available manually update the window set the WHEN PRESSING THE PAUSE BUTTON option to DO NOT UPDATE THUMBNAILS and hit the PAUSE BREAK k
70. nter key combination to grab the current in cue and fix the previous subtitle s out cue Spot 5 0 User Guide Timecode calculator Spot s timecode calculator TOOLS TIMECODE CALCULATOR lets you convert add subtract multiply or divide timecode in a variety of SMPTE formats including PAL NTSC DF NTSC NDF and custom formats imecode Calculator Lx Log Edit B S bB Film 24 fps PAL NTSCDF NTSC NDF User 60 fps 35mm 16mm 10 27 31 05 00 27 04 03 10 54 35 08 10 27 231 05 00 27 04 03 10 54 35 08 25 fps v Convert cues when switching between SMPTE formats Clear Log PAL 941280 40603 981883 4 3135943 3 To carry out a calculation e Select the desired SMPTE format from the format tabs along the top of the window e Enter the first timecode e Press TAB to move to the operator field and select the operator e Press TAB again and enter the second timecode e Press the ENTER key The result of the calculation will be displayed in the result box and added to the history log The calculation will also be displayed in frame format on the status bar at the bottom of the window with timecode two shown as a percentage of timecode one in the right hand corner Results can be copied to the current in or out cue in the main Spot window by pressing F11 or F12 Conversely the current video timecode can be copied to the first or second timecode fields by pressing F5 or F8 if no timecode is
71. nterpolation cubic Interlacing Auto same as input Field processing None Overlay BITC on video Timecode start 00 00 00 00 Y position 24 5 E Overlay spoiler image on video Base on existing timecode File Select Image Image opaoty EEE Output separate audio and video streams Maximum encoding speed Auto offset subtitles Show filters Subtitle sync delay o Ignored during Quick Encode only display the first subtitle at least ten hours into the video As the encoder starts from 00 00 00 00 subtitles need to be recut to appear at the correct time Show filters Pops up a list of the filters used to encode the video before encoding This is only useful for debugging Subtitle sync delay There is an inherent delay in the encoding graph of approximately four frames Use the Subtitle sync delay dropdown to compensate for this delay Clicking OK to close the window and save the current configuration for future use Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Other tools and procedures Notebook File Edit Insert Format 38 M 8 m fa Times Mew Roman 12 Ul Eee E SE ez 01 00 02 NARRADOR Embora a ruidosa reconstru o esteja a avan ar o Ground Zero continua a ser uma poderosa recorda o de como o 11 de Setembro de 2001 transformou a America e o mundo 01 00 14 Nas horas que se se
72. nterval Splitting and merging subtitles To split and merge the current subtitle click the SPLIT AND MERGE SUBTITLE button on the toolbar or press CTRL F9 or select Split and Merge from the Subtitle menu The current subtitle will be split at the cursor the text to the right of the cursor will be merged with the next subtitle Copying subtitles Use Quick View to copy subtitles Locking subtitles Documents can be protected by disabling text and cue editing subtitle insertion and other editing functions in the DISABLE window EDIT DISABLE Spot 5 0 User Guide Text editing functions Deleting text To delete a word move the cursor to the start of the word and press CTRL DEL To delete a line press CTRL Y To delete all the text in a subtitle press CTRL SHIFT DEL Moving words between rows Use ALT UP ARROW to move the word at the start of line two to the end of line one Use ALT DOWN ARROW to move the word at the end of line one to the start of line two TOOLS OPTIONS TEXT EDITING lets you change the position the cursor needs to be in for these actions to work You can use the mouse to drag and drop text within the subtitle edit area by selecting this option in the TooLs OPTIONS TEXT EDITING window The same window lets you hide the mouse cursor whilst typing Swapping lines one and two Press CTRL F2 Toggling text between upper mixed and lowercase Select the text you wish to change Press CTRL L once twice
73. ny of the settings are identical to those in the Bitmap Export window General Advanced Target video format Target video format PAL 720 x 576 Sets the broadcast format for the current subtitle file For most private subtitlers in Europe this will normally be PAL Any changes you make TT TB here will also change the size of the video window Font Settings Positioning Other Aspect ratio Sets the aspect ratio letterboxing for the video The options are 4 3 or are Ean MEN 16 9 Change Display Font Font settings KEE Sets the font font size font spacing kerning and line spacing leading Leading Kerning options for the target video Inner border width Outer border width Sets the left and right margins ceiling top margin and baseline bottom o sl x margin for subtitles Positioning Preview text Other The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog s back Sets the colours used for the subtitle text border and background These settings are decorative rather than functional and are ignored when a Live preview subtitle file is exported To add colours to words or subtitles see the Using colours topic Just as you may require more than one client profile you may also require several different display setting configurations or share your display settings with another Spot user To save the current configuration click the SAVE CURRENT SETTINGS As button on the GENERAL tab To loa
74. nzas Checks that the interval between stanzas is not less than the default subtitle interval Check interval between subtitles Checks that the interval between subtitles that make up one stanza is zero Check for subtitles lasting less than Checks for subtitles lasting less than the number of frames in the dropdown list Reapplying karaoke subtitles You might wish to reapply a karaoke effect to subtitles if you have retimed the start or end of a stanza or made changes to the subtitle text To do this select REAPPLY KARAOKE SUBTITLES from the Action list select the desired subtitle range using the FROM SUBTITLE and TO SUBTITLE fields and click OK Spot 5 0 User Guide Shot cut detection Pre processed shot cut detection is carried out using a separate application SpotCut The setup file for the program is located in the SPOT INSTALL SPOTCUT folder P SpotCut 2008 v1 1 0 Files to process _ Options Shot cut sensitivity threshold value Colour space RGB 24 bit three bytes per pixel Binary output format Readable output format Progress The program is simple to use Select the video file or files to process using the ADD FILES button set your options see below then click the Start button Files are normally processed 10 times faster than real time Shot cut sensitivity Specifies how much of a change between two frames causes the current frame to be flagged as a shot cut You should generally
75. oked all blue My mother saidthat he drank himself to death And now you re living togetherwith your mother Yes and her new friend OK So it s Liege from here on Liege I thought you said Luik Li ge is French for Luik Who are we going to talk to in Belgium My mother Why don t you just call her Because she doesn t want to talk to me How come Because she blames me for everything For what It doesn t matter A load of crap Really Yes so now what It should be here somewhere 00 40 13 08 00 40 18 00 00 40 23 13 00 40 26 18 00 40 36 05 00 40 42 15 00 40 56 08 00 41 02 22 00 41 06 13 00 41 11 00 00 41 16 05 00 41 13 13 00 41 34 21 E d 3 split points selected 87 215 414 coca When selecting split points by clicking the box to the left of each subtitle bear in mind that a selected subtitle will become the first subtitle in the new file In the screen shot above for example four new subtitle files will be created starting at subtitle 1 subtitle 87 subtitle 215 and subtitle 414 Each file will be given the name you choose in the Split File Root Name dialog box plus a numeric suffix 1 2 3 etc and the extension spt The right hand column shows the in cue for each subtitle Copying subtitles from existing files Use Quick View CTRL Q to open an existing subtitle file In the Quick View window click File Open As Read Only select the file you want to open and press OK The Quick
76. operation press the Esc key and the subtitles will snap back to their original position To lock subtitles i e prevent the current subtitle s cues overriding the previous next subtitle s cues hold down the Shift key while dragging the mouse note that this will lock subtitles regardless of the intervals between them In cue drag area Out cue drag area Next subtitle Audio waveform E ep osiga lt P Zoom A C TT A O OOG Options Previous subtitle Current subtitle Current frame You can click anywhere within the waveform to jump to that position in the video file SHIFT LEFT CLICK will set the current in cue SHIFT RIGHT CLICK will set the current out cue The waveform view can be set to mono stereo left channel or right channel only The latter might be useful if LTC is recorded on one of the audio channels Use the slider on the right of the waveform to zoom in and out Audio Scrub If you are using the audio display to find the start of speech you should disable this option as the waveform is more accurate Spot 5 0 User Guide Display Settings The size position and appearance of the subtitles in the video preview window and by extension the subtitles burnt to video in a quick encoding session are dictated by your current display settings Press F6 or select VIDEO WINDOW ADJUST DISPLAY SETTINGS to open the DISPLAY SETTINGS window Click the ADVANCED tab to set up your display for obvious reasons ma
77. ore the current subtitle click the INSERT SUBTITLE BEFORE button on the subtitle toolbar or press CTRL F5 A new subtitle will be inserted immediately before the current subtitle To insert a subtitle after the current subtitle click the INSERT SUBTITLE AFTER button on the subtitle toolbar or press SHIFT F5 A new subtitle will be inserted immediately before the current subtitle Deleting subtitles Click the DELETE SUBTITLE button on the toolbar or press CTRL F6 to delete the current subtitle A range of subtitles can be deleted using Quick View or the DELETE RANGE window CTRL F6 Merging two subtitles To merge the current subtitle with the next subtitle click the MERGE SUBTITLE button on the toolbar or press CTRL F7 The newly merged subtitle will inherit the out cue of the second subtitle Splitting subtitles To split the current subtitle into two subtitles place the cursor at the point where you wish the split to take place then click the SPLIT SUBTITLE button on the toolbar or press CTRL F8 If the subtitle you are splitting contains valid in and out cues which fall outside the current timecode the in and out cues of both subtitles will be based where possible on the amount of text in each subtitle If the subtitle you are splitting contains valid in and out cues which fall within the current timecode the in cue of the newly created subtitle will be set to the current timecode with the two subtitles separated by the default i
78. ory of the file from its creation to the current point in time Because backups occur at the same time as AutoRecover data is saved disabling AutoRecover disables timed backups as well although you have the option of disabling only timed backups this will not affect AutoRecover To view the backups for a particular file click VIEW RESTORE OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF A BACKUP FOLDER or select FILE BACKUPS in the main Spot window This will open the following window Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide CiUsersiMarkiAppDataiRos Files in Folder 2010 04 26 20 49 12 spt D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 2010 04 26021 04 13 spt Escrava Isaura Ep 010 2010 04 26821 19 13 spt 2010 04 26021 34 13 spt 2 00 02 02 07 00 02 09 11 2010 04 2545221 49 13 spt M re n essaye pas de m emp cher de 2010 04 26022 04 14 spt poss der Isaura Je d sire cette 2010 04 26022 20 OLspt escave plus que tout au monde 3 00 02 10 03 00 02 17 07 C est un caprice Leoncio C est juste parce qu elle se refuse Parce qu elle est toujours vierge pure et innocente 4 10 05 05 14 10 05 09 18 Mais je pense Isaura tout le temps C est ton orgueil bless mon enfant 2 10 05 09 21 10 05 12 13 C est parce que tu te sens rejet par une esclave Ah mon garcon Je connais bien cela Combien de fois ton 4 Subtitles 356 Lang Portugu s Portugal File does not contain empty subtitles Restore File
79. out cue V Lock previous out cue or next in cue if less than or equal to default interval v Page down to next subtitle after grabbing out cue Add cues and default duration if cues are empty Auto recut frames 3 Apply auto recut to in cue only Enable auto recut when video is paused v Display cue conversion dialog when switching between video formats OK Cancel the default interval is set to three frames as soon as the current subtitle s in cue comes within three frames of the previous out cue the out cue will maintain the three frame interval Page down after grabbing out cue Forces Spot to move to the next subtitle after grabbing the out cue for the current subtitle Edit mode only Selecting the Add cues option below will create in and out cues for the subtitle Auto recut Offsets cues when grabbed by the number of frames specified Spot 5 0 User Guide Converting cues between video formats Sometimes you may have to subtitle a file that was originally timed against a video with a different timecode format Use the Cue Conversion window SHIFT F8 or select Convert from the Cues menu to convert between different video standards Cue Comer on C er On the Conversion tab select Telecined masters as the conversion type and choose the formats to convert from and Conversion Advanced to If the original master was PAL for example and the new LED GET video is NTSC non drop 30
80. ox 10 21 02 18 in this example e Click OK Spot 5 0 User Guide If the media file you are subtitling does not contain BITC you can simply ignore the internal timecode and time the file starting at midnight 00 00 00 00 recutting later if necessary You only need to perform sync operations once After assigning timecode to a file you will be prompted to save the data when quitting a session you can also manually save the data at any time by clicking the open media button and selecting SAVE DATA TO DISK A file with the same name as the video file plus a tcd extension will be created For example if your video file is called Ryan PAL mpg the timecode file will be named Ryan PAL mpg tcd The next time Spot opens the video it searches for and loads the corresponding tcd file Controlling media playback You can use the keyboard or mouse to navigate through a media file Using the video toolbar Replay sequence Frame E Find next Offset ast timecode back shot cut Play forward Open media file ow Ei ag 4l Ip dd WoW o b v 9 Le Pause Rewind Frame Find last Jump to Quick encode forward shot cut Jump to DE in cue Each command is explained in more detail below Indented levels denote buttons with sub menus shown by the small black arrow to the right of the button in the picture above Play Play forwards at normal speed Pause Pause playback Replay sequence Replay the last three seconds default The default setting
81. pending on your computer holding down the fast forward key with the pause button depressed will move you forwards through the file at upwards of 250 fps The NumLock key must be on for these key strokes to work The CTRL B key combination allows you to toggle the audio balance between full left full right and centred Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Setting Video and Audio Preferences The MEDIA PREFERENCES window VIDEO MEDIA PREFERENCES lets you customise the way Spot handles media files and set various options It is divided into four sections GENERAL MEDIA CONTROL AUDIO and THUMBNAILS General When you press F7 or click the OPEN MEDIA button on the video toolbar the SELECT MEDIA SOURCE dialog will open in the folder specified in the MEDIA FOLDER field Media Preferences MN Ticking the SYNC VIDEO TO SUBTITLES WHEN IN EDIT General Media Control Audio Thumbnails MODE box forces the video or audio source to Media folder jump to the current subtitle when navigating F Subtiting Videos through a subtitle file This option can also be ee d UNE o n S eee set using the OPTIONS QUICK OPTIONS menu SEES sis WMV and MPEG files may contain embedded Sync video to subtitles when in edit mode timecode If you want Spot to attempt to read Check for embedded timecode in WMV and MPEG files e the timecode in these files select this option Note that for MPEG f
82. present the in cue of the current subtitle will be copied instead To convert between SMPTE formats select the CONVERT CUES WHEN SWITCHING BETWEEN SMPTE FORMATS option This will convert the value in both timecode fields when a different format tab is clicked If the currently selected format is NTSC NDF and the value in the first timecode field is 10 24 00 00 for example clicking the NTSC DF tab will convert 10 24 00 00 to 10 24 37 14 To specify a custom frame rate click EDIT USER FRAME RATE type the number of frames per second in the USER FRAME RATE window and click OK 16 and 35 mm formats Calculations are carried out in feet and frames rather than HH MM SS FF format so you need to insert a hyphen between the feet and frame fields Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland 6 Spot 5 0 User Guide Spot 5 0 data and log files Spot s data files are stored in ROOT DRIVE USER NAME APPDATA ROAMING SPOT SOFTWARE SPOT This means that settings are stored on an individual basis for different user accounts the most recently used file list will show only the files that you have recently opened for example and any changes you make to various Spot options will not affect another user who logs onto the same computer under a different account File name What it contains arf dat AutoReplace entries profiles dat Profile settings dvdxpt dat Recently accessed DVD folders options dat Spot Options dialog spot ini Mis
83. r create a custom size If you choose the Fit to subtitle option bitmaps will be cropped to the size of the subtitle rather than the size shown in the Target width and Target height fields use the Padding dropdown to add extra space to the start and end of subtitles Note however that you must still provide a valid width and height if you don t the bitmaps will not be positioned correctly by the authoring system The Format list may be disabled depending on the target system Whenever any of the options on the you have chosen A Spot subtitle stream creates its own proprietary Format tab are changed the bitmaps and you therefore cannot set the bitmap format Other preview window at the bottom of systems might only support BMP TIFF or PNG files with a particular the screen is updated to reflect these changes Left or right click the preview window to zoom in or out bit depth so you should check with your client to find out which format is required The options available in the Font frame also vary depending on the chosen target system For DVD systems bitmaps are limited to a maximum of four colours This means that only the first six font effect options may be applied to the subtitle none heavy smoothing medium smoothing light smoothing 1 pixel inner border or 2 pixel inner border No colour restrictions apply to Blu ray HD or Spot subtitle streams so the other six font effects anti aliasing bevelled anti aliasing blur 1 b
84. se button Type a name for the index file for this bitmap stream in the Index file name field note that the Bitmap stream root name field changes automatically to reflect the An index file includes information such index file name and select which subtitles to export from the Export as the size position and location of dropdown list You will normally export the whole file the actual subtitle bitmaps Without this file the authoring system would If you do not want to export blank subtitles and there are not many j s l l not be able to locate the bitmaps reasons why you would tick the Do not render empty subtitles box Copyright 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland Spot 5 0 User Guide Format tab The FORMAT tab allows you to set the type size and appearance of the subtitle bitmaps Export Format Advanced Bitmap Image type Target width Targetheight Padding Pa Ja o zl e bitwindows BMP Font Name Character set Arial Normal 3 Subsampled 2 EN Bicubic Weight Border Font effect Passes Format Subtitle outlining Vertical padding Opacity Contrast Alpha correct None 45 w Low o _ Drop shadow Anamorphic font Anti Alias Set Text Preview Zoom x 7 Use Current Open Save You can select a bitmap size PAL NTSC Fit to subtitle HD 720 or HD 1080 from the Image type dropdown list o
85. speed Shift Ctrl F8 Check for default interval override F9 Run all checks Shift F9 Continue checks from next subtitle Shift Ctrl F9 Check for empty subtitles Ctrl R Report view File functions Miscellaneous ey Ctrl F4 Translate F6 Adjust display settings F8 Shift F5 Preset display settings Ctrl D Bitmap export Copyright O 2010 Mark Raishbrook Spot Software BV Holland
86. t slider is disabled make sure you have selected 3D from the File type dropdown list If the Inherit option is selected when manually setting the Z offset you only need to set the offset for subsequent subtitles when the Z offset value changes For example if you set the offset for subtitle 1 to 0 39 subtitle 2 will inherit this value when you move to it using Page Down or the dropdown subtitle list If you have a range of Z values for a 3D movie you can import these by clicking the Load Z Range button Spot will check each subtitle against the Z range values and match the Z offset A warning is displayed if a subtitle spans various Z depths To grab the current frame from the video click the button on the right of the Inherit option Clicking the lt lt button the right of the grab frame button will shrink the size of the DLP Cinema Export window allowing you to work in the main Spot window if required Windows Media Player SAMI caption files Selecting Windows Media Player SAMI caption files from the export list and clicking OK opens the SAMI Export window File Information Paragraph Style Language Streams Alternate Styles File Information Media Content Media content ASX file name Start of video dip Export folder C Users Mark Desktop Es Video cip Text encoding UTF 8 Use relative paths in AS file Spot creates an ASX container file for the SAMI captions and associated vid
87. tive Media n eu Andrew 00 01 08 15 pedinchava um produto Ch ara cte r view Ists t h e e Andrew 00 01 10 22 Pedimos hes para registaremquando onde e porqu h h eu Mike 00 01 18 21 Este estudo n o era para ajudaros pais a lidar como chara cte rs in t e SCT pt Mike 00 01 24 17 Era para as empresas ajudaremas crian as a pedir aa d Mike 00 01 29 11 de forma mais eficaz and the total number of Z Mike 00 01 31 05 PEDINCHAR A CHAVE ea E ais eee a qi lines spoken by each Total lines 41 Current line 1 Character Sally The first thing to do is create a new character by clicking SCRIPT CHARACTER ADD CHARACTER or pressing F5 In the ADD CHARACTER window give the character a name a role leading or secondary and assign it a gender and click OK The new character s name will appear in the character list at the top left of the Script Manager window Now type the character s line in the text box and add the in time and out time for the line either by pressing F11 and F12 or by clicking the in and out buttons on the toolbar Once the line is complete press Page Down to add it to the script in the bottom half of the window and clear the text box ready for a new line You can create all the characters at once or whenever a new character occurs in the script If you have a complete list of characters select the appropriate name from the character list whenever the speaker changes Characters can be edited by clic
88. tle kp 3sx 23HBH ea amp e toolbar 10 102 RIO 22 35 9 00 01 11 07 7 04 24 00 01 16 06 Subtitle overlaid on video They d be easy to feed Subtitle as they re animals we keep at home edit area They d be easy to feed Internal timecode as they re animals we keep at home Duration T18 i 00 01 19 08 guide Next subtitle File s OK 726 subtitles 25 fps stern 51 9 CPL 570 x 456 INS Video control panel Audio waveform Next subtitle Current subtitle Status bar View bar duration guide You can resize the main window by dragging the sides or corners of the window with the mouse As you do so the video window will resize accordingly The video window can be undocked by clicking its icon on the main toolbar Selecting the option REMEMBER MAIN WINDOW SIZE AND POSITION in the OPTIONS GENERAL window will store the size and coordinates of the main window and restore them the next time you start Spot Click the DEFAULT button on the right of this option to restore the window to its default size The subtitle toolbar and view bar can be hidden by selecting the appropriate option in the OPTIONS CUSTOMISE window You can also turn colour coding on and off for the previous and next subtitles The audio waveform can be hidden or displayed by clicking its icon on the main toolbar Spot 5 0 User Guide Toolbars and status bar Main toolbar Float video Save or New file Print a o Go To Quick View export delete
89. ts cues is non linear e g if the new master is PAL and the file was originally timed as NTSC Manually adjust offset This method is most useful if you spot using the spacebar method and want to compensate for the small delay that occurs between deciding to capture a cue and actually pressing the spacebar to capture it Continue from last out cue Select this method when a file contains a break in timecode e g the start of a reel but a new master requires the timecode to be continuous Controlling cue behaviour Select Cue Editing from the Tools Options window to specify how Spot behaves when editing cues Cue highlight Specifies which part of a cue is highlighted when focused Calculate in cue When this option is selected moving to the in cue will set the cue to the previous subtitle s out cue plus the default subtitle interval Calculate in and out cue If the in cue contains a valid time code Spot calculates the out cue for you Lock cues The lock cues option allows you to push and pull in and out cues For example if Files Customise Expand all nodes iy Options 9 E When moving to valid cues j General Parameters v Highlight frames field Checks Highlight seconds field Text Editing Highlig 2 Cue Editing Highlight whole cue General V When moving to empty in cue calculate in cue Warnings Iv When moving to empty out cue calculate in and
90. ue as shown above will force Spot to jump to subtitle 25 Because the list is not updated automatically as you edit subtitles click the first icon on the Error tab if you want to refresh the list The error and statistics lists can be saved to file or sent to the printer by clicking the appropriate icon Press CTRL R again or click the Edit tab to leave Report View Spot 5 0 User Guide Spell check and thesaurus Spot uses Microsoft Office Word to perform spell checking and find synonyms You must therefore have a version of Word installed on your system for the spell check and thesaurus to work Spell checking a subtitle file Press F4 to spell check the current file Spot will open Microsoft Office Word paste the contents of the file into a blank document and start a spell check When you have finished spell checking the file is copied back into Spot Spelling suggestions and synonyms You can get spelling suggestions or find synonyms for a word by right clicking it in the subtitle edit area and selecting Look Up Synonyms or Look Up Spelling Suggestions Set the language used by the spell checker and thesaurus from Spot s language bar Web search The Internet is a useful tool for checking names references and other details You can look up a word on the Internet directly from within Spot by right clicking it in the edit area and selecting Web Search followed by the Gh Spor 50 C USERS MARR EN Internet site
91. you want to open Babylon One BEA EEP OEO 5m S EUM Ba RN Ca s 9 Look Google Yahoo Wikipedia Wide v Arial A 16 Regular 7000 English UK v SE 66 0 58 17 02 19 oz D ER Dictionary com or Thesaurus com If you to find out more about what animals eat prefer to USE the keyboard rather than the mouse press CTRL ALT 4 for Babylon BBBBED 43353 2 B 6 mmm ees ii E Tuga Qua CTRL ALT 5 for One Look CTRL ALT 6 for x Canon Easy WebPrint EX Zei Print v ER Preview E Clip gt gt ALT ALT Weve got piscivores SERINE eese Google CTRL ALT 7 for Yahoo CTRL ALT 8 for Msc EE WESEL ON ICI T E E 2 Wikipedia CTRL ALT 9 for Dictionary OR CTRL 49780 Ba og in create account d od article discussion edit this page history x ZEE Carnivore ALT O for Thesaurus herbivoresand omnivores ME re The portal through which the search is Internet Protected Mode Of a gt o executed can be changed in the Options Customise Web Search window If you live in Holland for example you might want to 728 subtitles s Western 51 9 CPL 492 x 394 INS search for a word on www google nl rather than the default www google com You do this by changing the Google search string to http www google nl search q SK where SK represents the word sent from Spot to the search engine You can reset the default search string for all search engines by pressing the corresponding Default button

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