Robert_Salesas@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) (02/18/91)
You might want to take a look at the subtitler program included in Video Tools (Eschalon Development Inc.), the package includes a lot more than a subtitler though. You get a crediter, prompter, scroller, subtitler, pattern & colorbar generator, Multi-Media package... and more. You should be able to find it for less than $200. Also there is a PD type subtitler avaialble somewhere. I don't know how good it is but you can always try it out. Actuallly I think it is shareware. Anyone know what I mean? Rob
harlock@netcom.COM (Mike Harlock) (02/18/91)
I live in the San Fransisco Bay Area. I am looking for a programmer who
would be willing to write a small program to be used by my group and myself.
The program would be used for the subtitling of foreign films. Our group
has no budget, the money is comming out of my own pocket. I am willing to
pay a programmer $200 to do the following:
Write a small program that displays IFF files in sequence.
Here is a summary of what it needs to do:
* have a timer constantly going starting with the placement of the
first subtitle.
* Each IFF file will be assigned a time-on and a time off. For
Example: Title 30 has a time on of 53015 and a timeoff of
53300. This means that subtitle #30 will appear on the screen
5 minutes and 30.15 seconds in to the film. The timer is relative
to the placement of the first subtitle. One only has to place the
first subtitle, which will start the timer, and the other titles
will appear according to their assigned timeons and timeoffs.
* There needs to be an edit mode, all that means is that if edit
mode is toggled, the timer will be displayed on the screen
while it is going, and the IFF file name will be displayed when
that file appears on the screen.
* instead of loading all of the IFF files in to memory at once, the
titler will always have the next two titles in chip mem. (the
pictures are small enough to store three of them in Chip mem at any
given time) For example: title 30 has just appeared on the screen.
that means that title 29 has just been removed from the screen and
purged from memory. At the same time, title 32 has just been
loaded from the hard disk in to chip memory. Title 31 has already
been loaded from when 29 first came on the screen.
* If there is any space in between the timeoff of a title and the
time on of the title right after it, the screen must remain
blank during this time. so, for example, title 3 leaves the screen.
title 4 appears 15 seconds later, during that 15 seconds, the screen
will remain completely blank.
* title attribute editor. There need be a small title attribute
editing subsystem. This menu option brings up a requestor allowing
you to select an IFF file. It will load and display the IFF file
on the screen, along with a small menu over it that allows you
to edit the time on and time off for that particular subtitle.
when loading a title, it would also read a script file, and that's
where all the title timeons and timeoffs are stored. The script
file would be loaded into ram.
A note on accuracy: When displaying the titles, the program must be
very accurate as far as keeping to the timer. if a title has a time on of
1530, it has to be on the screen the instant the timer hits 1530. Any
time it takes for the system to display the pic must be compensated by the
program. Example: The next title must appear at 1530. lets say that the
last title will be displayed until the moment the next one appears. That
means when the timer hits 1530, the title currently on the screen will be
instantly replaced by the new one. That means that if the computer needs
1 fifth of a second to think before it executes this procedure, then the
program should read 1530 as 15295.
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For a more detailed program concept, and if you are interested, mail
harlock@netcom.com. Once again, I have very little money, $200 is all I can
ammas at the moment. However, I will be able to get more $ later. Please,
send me mail, and we can work something out. This would be something to work
on in your spare time to earn some extra $. Or if you are a college student,
this could be an extra-credit project, and you could earn some money besides
that. I myself have not the time nor the knowledge to create this program.
I'm shure I could with a good cource on C programming.
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On the side - The titles would be generated with Broadcast Titler, which
uses exclusivly full high res overscan. But since the picture files would
be so small (a few BW titles on the bottom of the screen doesn't take up
much mem) each file would be about 30K in length. about 3 megs for 1/2 hour
of titling for an average movie.
--harlock@netcom.com