6 May
2015
6 May
'15
2:25 p.m.
Am 06.05.2015 um 15:36 schrieb Jim Dummett via DCPomatic:
It it really as simple as adding the audio tracks in DCP-o-matic and burning in the
subtitles to the video before encoding? Or are there any gotchas?
Adding the audio description track is no problem, you can just add that as a separate
audio track and map it in the channel mixer.
Regarding subtitles for burning in, I have no idea how to embed them so that DCP-o-matic
can read them. We had a short discussion on this here a while ago. Don't know how
other people are doing their subtitles other than using existing streams within MKVs
ripped from DVD/BluRay, etc.
Maybe there are subtitle multiplexers that can be used. However, then the container
formats of all videos need to support embedded subtitles, or you need to transcode/conform
them into a suitable container like MKV.
Another option is to burn in the subtitles in the editing application, e.g., when all
material is premastered in FCP, they could just add the subtitles there as well. If you
just get a range of different file types from the original content authors, this is
probably no option, or, your only option ;-)
The (inofficial) DCP-o-matic v2 can deal with external (XML and SRT) subtitles. You may
give it a try.
http://dcpomatic.com/v2
It's not ready for primetime, but with enough testing, it should be usable for a
closed workflow. I know people used it successfully.
Talk to the people who will be preparing the subtitle files technically, and find out what
formats they can supply, that would be the first step I'd think.
- Carsten