User guide

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Getting Started
2.3 Adding Subtitles
The DCI Mastering feature supports subtitles and, if wanted, you can
add them to your prepared project (see section “Preparing the Source
Data” on page 2-7), view them in the video overlay and edit or create
them. The DVS software supports XML subtitle files as specified by
SMPTE/DCI, PNG images as subtitles and subtiltes already wrapped in
MXF. This section describes how to use subtitles in the Edit Tool.
2.3.1 Adding Subtitles to the Timeline
Working with subtitles in the Edit Tool is different from working with
clips in the timeline: Subtitles have to be present in the timeline as a
subtitle timeline element in an empty timeline track above the video
timeline track(s). The subtitle timeline element, however, is just a con-
tainer: It can be used for different subtitles, i.e. it may contain more
than just one subtitle. For this, each subtitle timeline element provides
up to seven subtitle tracks, where you can add the subtitles according
to your needs (e.g. as main subtitle, main captions, closed subtitle, or
closed captions).
To receive a subtitle timeline element in the timeline you have several
possibilities at hand:
– You can add an MXF/XML subtitle file to the bin and then to an
empty timeline track or
– you can add an empty subtitle timeline element to an empty time-
line track and then reference it to one or more MXF/XML subtitle
files.
This section describes these ways to add a subtitle to the timeline.
Adding a Subtitle via the Bin
An available MXF/XML subtitle file can be added to the bin and then
to the timeline just as any other clip in the Edit Tool. For this perform
the following:
 Add the MXF/XML subtitle file to the bin, for example, via the Add
MXF/XML subtitle file menu option on the Project menu (or on
the context menu of the bin) or drag and drop it to the bin from a
file manager.
 Configure the timeline to show another empty video track, for
example, via the timeline output settings or by using the menu
option Add track on the context menu of a video track.
Subtitles can be placed at every position in the timeline, i.e.
gaps between subtitle timeline elements are allowed.