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Make global changes to subtitles
in the Quick View window
Spot's tools will help save you time
Get immediate error feedback
Instantly synchronise subtitles
to the start of speech
Burn subtitles to video
or convert between formats
Export bitmap subtitles
for Blu-ray and DVD systems
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Editing
You'd be hard pressed to find a subtitle editor with more editing
functions than Spot. Format multiple subtitles with one click; add
comments to subtitles or read a template file into the comment field;
raise or lower subtitle rows, shift words or subtitles up and down, swap
lines or choose the best fit for a subtitle; delete, split, merge or
insert subtitles; assign shortcuts to often used or difficult to remember
words or phrases; add colours to words or lines; automatically eliminate
double spaces and correct bad punctuation; use Spot's Notebook or Script
Manager to prepare a dubbing script; save different system settings for
different clients and retrieve them with a mouse click; use the
measurement converter to quickly convert weights and measures and copy the
result directly into your file; get immediate
error and statistical feedback.
And if you have Microsoft Word or Office installed on your computer,
Spot can spell check your subtitle file in any available language, pop up
spelling suggestions or tap into Office's thesaurus to quickly find
synonyms for words or phrases.
Spot's WYSIWYG preview window displays your subtitles exactly as they'll appear
when broadcast. The target broadcast font and font size, safe area
settings, video aspect ratio and other parameters are all
user-configurable and can be saved under different names and loaded when
necessary.
Timing and reformatting
Frame-accurate subtitling needn't be a chore. Use Spot's
audio waveform to synchronise subtitles to
speech; jump instantly between shot cuts;
grab the current in cue and lock
it to the previous subtitle with one keystroke; fine-tune in and out cues
using the keyboard or mouse; get instant readability feedback from Spot's
unique colour-coded timing fields. If you're an "on the fly" spotter, use
auto recut to automatically compensate for your reaction time or manually
offset your file by any number of frames.
Need to reformat a file for PAL video that was originally
timed against an NTSC DF master? Have to convert PAL subtitles to 23.976 fps? No problem. Just
open the cue conversion window, select your source and target video
standards and you're done. Spot's true telecined masters conversion means
there's no need to resubtitle your original file.
As well as spotting against almost any digital video file format
(MPEG-1, AVI, MPEG-4, WMV, etc), you can also load an audio-only file (WAV or MP3)
into Spot or select separate video and audio sources. And if the WMV or
MPEG file you've just opened
contains embedded timecode, Spot can sync to that rather than its own
internal clock.
Encoding
Burn subtitles into a video stream and output in MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or
Flash format with Spot's built-in subtitle encoder. Use one of six preset
encoding formats or create your own: you can configure the frame rate,
bitrate, bitrate mode, audio format and sampling rate of the final video,
overlay BITC or a spoiler image, and output separate audio and video
streams. The encoder's real-time upsampling engine intelligently resizes
the source video using advanced interpolation techniques to provide
professional results even if you choose not to add subtitles but simply
use the encoder as a conversion tool.
File import and export
Spot can import and export a wide range of subtitle formats.
Import
Screen PAC and RAC files, Scantitling 890 files, EBU STL files, SDI Media
Group text files, MicroDVD SUB files, PMWin OVR files, Sonic DVD Creator script
files, Spruce Maestro STL files, SubRip SRT files, tab separated DVD script
files, Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML files, windows Media Player SAMI caption
files, Titra ASCII files, theatrical
spotting lists, Caption Inc EIA-608 CIN files, closed caption text files and
over 10 different formatted text layouts.
Export
Screen PAC files, Scantitling 890 files, EBU STL files, Adobe Encore CS3 text
files, Avid DS Nitris text files, Final Cut Pro XML interchange format bitmaps, Caption Inc CIN files, MicroDVD SUB files,
Microsoft Excel CSV files, Sonic DVD Creator script files, Spruce Maestro STL
text files, SubRip SRT file, Texas Instruments DLP Cinema XML files, Windows
Media Player SAMI caption files, FAB shortform text files, Sonic Scenarist Blu-ray PNG
streams, CMX 3600 EDL streams, Pinnacle Expression DVD and other professional DVD
authoring system formats.
Spot's bitmap export module gives you precise control over the placement
and appearance of bitmap subtitles for SD and HD Blu-ray and DVD authoring
systems. Anti-alias effects, border width, kerning, leading and
transparency levels are all user-definable. If you're creating bitmaps for
Blu-ray systems or saving bitmaps streams in Spot's proprietary SBS format
for use in our Spotwelder subtitle encoder,
up to 65,000 colours can be used to draw subtitles, resulting in
easy to read, smoothly rendered text.
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