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Moving subtitles?
KevetS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 14, 2012 20:00 Messages: 25 Offline
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This was prompted by Jimbo223's post on subtitles.
Using subtitles may be the solution to a problem I'm having with Time/Date stamping mts files.

Is there a way of moving subtitles, so that they can be placed in a bottom corner, rather than centrally? As, to my mind, this looks rather ugly and obtrusive for time and date purposes. Win 7 64bit, 8 GB ram, Intel Q9550 2.83GHz, PD 14, nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
stevek
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Have you played around with the text options. You can easily add text and move it to where you want it - it acts sort of an overlay. The text default is to the bottom left but you can move it to where you want it.

By the way, there is a long set of menus if you scrool down the text option in the text window. Several people have missed it. .
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KevetS [Avatar]
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Thanks stevek,

I think I'm going to need more info.
The only option I can see in subtitle room is Alignment which gives you 3 options to align text. I can't see anything that will allow me to move the entire subtitle to the bottom right of the video.
More help would be appreciated.
Thanks Win 7 64bit, 8 GB ram, Intel Q9550 2.83GHz, PD 14, nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Jimbo223 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Apr 25, 2012 02:59 Messages: 95 Offline
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I figured it out Kevets...
A couple of things make it seem wonky.

I believe that because subtitling is essentially positioning text characters on a layer above film, your last character of the top line of text becomes your positioning element/point of reference if you're aligning RIGHT.

If you're aligning LEFT, then your first character of the top text becomes your positioning element/point of reference.

For example (RIGHT alignment):
T = Top Subtitle Line, B = Bottom Subtitle Line

T: Mr Smith
B: Walkin' along

...the 'h' and 'g' are justified, near the centre of the screen. If you lengthen the TOP line by adding more text, the more to the RIGHT goes the BOTTOM line.

You can fool the subtitler to flush your text more to the right by having a blank TOP line full of space characters and write your main text on a separate second line.

If you don't see any text, you've added too many spaces.

For LEFT alignment, think the reverse.

Hope this helps.
KevetS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 14, 2012 20:00 Messages: 25 Offline
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Thanks jimbo223,
Perfect! That was the solution I was after. Thanks again. Win 7 64bit, 8 GB ram, Intel Q9550 2.83GHz, PD 14, nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
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