To add sub-titles to your clips be prepared for the program to try to do what it wants to do.
OK, let’s go.
Sub-titles are put in to your video in a TIME position, not on the clip.
1. Put your clips into the storyboard in the order that you want.
2. Click on the sub-title icon on the top bar. This will bring down the subtitle box for you to play with.
3. Ensure that you have your sub-titles organised for entry. This box can be VERY frustrating with the timing as you will probably find out.
4. Slide the red pointer line (cursor) to the start of the first clip that you want to sub-title. Press the GREEN CROSS to Add a sub-title.
In the bar at the bottom of the sub-title box you will have the time position of the cursor, the start time of your sub-title and the end time of your sub-title. These times will probably be random so be careful.
5. Go to the box on the bottom left and type in your sub-title. The program does not tell you this, it is a big secret.
- Den .. yes it does tell you, momentarily. This is what I got when I clicked on that GREEN CROSS. But .. those words were just off the screen, at the very bottom. If you scroll down real quick you will see them before they disappear. This message didn't appear when doing subsequent subtitles .. Hugh
- If you click on Format you get all the options for your TEXT .. Font; Bold; Italics, Underline; Text Colour; Font Size.
6. Now set the END time!! If you don’t the program will tell you that the start must be before the end which is logical to a Umun but not to a machine. The end time can be found by running the cursor to the end of the clip. (Logic.) If you do not set the end time first then you will get a note telling you that you must do the end point before the start point. IT WILL NOT LET THIS GO! To get out of this situation I deleted my sub-title and started again. If you are correct then press Apply.
- Den .. the Start Time is in RED and the End Time is in BLUE. You can SET the Start and End Times manually .. or drag the square brackets along the Timeline and position them where you want them. When you hover your mouse over the BLUE or RED square brackets it momentarily tells you this. Do the BLUE one first to set the End Time. As Den said, you can't set the Start Time after the End Time .. Hugh
7. Now in the middle box on the left you will see your sub-title text and the timings, start and end.
8. Press the green cross again for the next sub-title. It will probably put it at the start again so watch out for that.
9. Type in your next sub-title and ensure that the END time is set and then the start time. Just check where the cursor is at that time.
10. After each entry check that the sub-title and your clip is where YOU want it. The program has a tendency to shift things around. However, in the sub-title box you can step the sub-titles up and down and also adjust the times. The program's favourite is to make some of the start and end times the same. That is why you don’t see your subtitle.
11. After adding each sub-title press the Apply button.
For me, after much frustration, I wrote the clip name title, the start of where I wanted the sub-title and end time of the title.
Like all programmers, they know what they want the program to do but forget that we have to run it. Then the program runs wild and we have to sort it. Just have fun.
Here is the result of doing the above.
Den
PS. Hugh and I have been collaborating on this, but with me in Australia and Hugh in UK there has been an inevitable time-lapse in updating this Topic.