Upon pressing the Input settings button
from the main screen the following
dialog will be displayed. From this dialog one can specify the options
that will be used to process the input file before creating the images, test
the settings against the script file, and even edit the text file.
There are two main sections of the input settings window. The left side contains the settings used indicate the type of text file that will be processed and settings to bypass text non-subtitle text. The right side can display the input script, show the effects of the settings against the input script file, and can even be used as a text editor. Details of these sections follow.
Input settings describe, in effect, preprocessor settings that will be executed against the input text file to specify text that should not be considered subtitle text for inclusion when creating the image text files. Most of these settings only apply to text files that are scripts, transcripts, screenplays or other form of input but do appliy when the input text file is a timecoded subtitle text file. Ttimecoded subtitle text files already contain text that is in a subtitle format.
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Textmode'Input Text Mode' can be one of the following options:'Unwrapped', 'Wrapped', T'imecoded', or 'Exact'. 'Wrapped' and 'Unwrapped refer to a plain text input such as a script, transcript, music text. or screenplay. In this mode, textmode specifies whether each line of the text contains a paragraph (Un-Wrapped) or each paragraph has more than one paragraph mark, or new line character, or carriage return, (Wrapped). The text file can can also be a text file containing timecoded subtitle information. The 'Format' for timecoded files can also be specified. TitleFactory provides a method to defined the format of timecoded text files. Refer to the Timecoded Text File page for more information. The TitleFactory input file can also be specified as 'Exact'. 'Exact' indicates that the text has already been split up in such a way that it should be placed on the images as is. Totally empty lines separate the text that should be placed on the images. Lines with all spaces are not considered 'empty'. Two blanks lines in a row cause TitleFactory to stop processing the file in the exact mode. Examples of the different modes are included in the samples. Encoding can be ASCII which specifies that the input text is ASCII text, UTF-8 which is a popular encoding for Unicode characters, or various form of ASCII, Cryllic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese scripts. This allows TitleFactory to read text in many of the worlds written languages (scripts). Ending Punctuation applies to Wrapped and Unwrapped text only. If defines valid characters that can be used to end a sentence. |
'With No Lower Case' indicates to TitleFactory that it should skip any lines for which that is no lower case. Scripts are generally written with character names and directions in capital letters. When 'yes' is specified these lines will be skipped.
'That Begin With (Chars)' tells the TitleFactory to ignore lines which contain certain text indicators in the first position. The single-character text-indicators can be place in the entry box. Be care about entering a space in this field unless you really want it to be skipped. The checkbox is used to turn this option on or off.
''That Contain (Chars)' tells the TitleFactory to ignore lines which contain certain text indicators in any position. The single-character text-indicators can be placed in the entry box. Be careful about entering a space in this field unless you really want it to be skipped. The checkbox is used to turn this option on or off.
''That Contain (Text)' tells the TitleFactory to ignore lines which contain certain text (for example, words) in any position. The multicharacter text can be placed in the entry box. Multiple words can be entered, seperated by a '|' (bar symbol). The checkbox is used to turn this option on or off.
'Ignore (Parens)' indicates that any text within and including parenthesis should be deleted. The checkbox is used to turn this option on or off.
'No Ending Punctuation' specifies whether sentences at the end of paragraphs that do not contain valid Ending punctuation, should be ignored.
'Start of Script - Text' parameter tells the program to skip all paragraphs until it finds a paragraph that has the specified text. From that point, the program will process the input lines. A useful way to use 'Start of Script - Text' and the 'End of Script - Text' parameters is to set it to chapter points within the total which also correspond to the video project.
'End of Script - Text' will stop the creating of the images from that point on. The software will resume capturing the text if finds another 'Start of Script - Text' string.
The colored boxes indicate the background colors for ignored text in the text window display area (when a test is performed).
The order of preprocessor execution is:
turn wrapped text to unwrapped, if wrapped is specified
convert tabs to spaces
convert carriage returns to new line characters
remove extra spaces (two spaces are changed to one space, recursively)
look for begin and end text blocks and remove unwanted lines of text, if specified
remove parens (inclusive), if specified
remove lines beginning with 'x', if specified
remove lines containing 'x', if specified
remove lines with no lower case, if specified
The open button will cause the
input text file defined on the main window to display in the text window.
The
button
causes the input settings to be applied to the text file. Lines and text
that is to be ignored according to the input stetting rules is displayed with
a colored background.
The
button changes toggles the
text between Hex and normal text mode.
The 
button toggles the text box to and from Column entry mode.
The search area contains text to search, and whether exact or regular expression searches are to be used.
The binocular
buttons perform 'find first',
'find next', 'find previous', and 'find all' functions.
The undo
, and redo 
buttons perform unlimited undo and redo for edited text.
The wrap button is a 3-way
toggle. It can be used to specify automatic wrapping based on word
boundaries, character boundaries, or it can be used to specify no-wrapping.
The
button (or right clicking in the
text window) will open up a menu that provides additional options and
capabilities including:
Open New Text File
Save Text File
Save Text File As...
Close Text File
Increase/Decrease font size
Wrap Options
and
Find/Replace Text (see below for a screen shot)
The text window, shown after a 'test' is run is shown below. When a test is executed against a regular text file (Wrapped or Un-Wrapped), the background colors correspond to one of the reasons why the text is being ignored.
Passing the mouse over the text (without clicking it) will indicate all of the reasons why the text is being ignored. Clicking the text window will remove the background colors. Ignored text can be hidden by pressing the show/hide text button toggle.
Running a text against a timecoded subtitle text file, will test the specified definition against the input file. Text is recognized as starting codes (Green background), Ending Codes (Red background), and subtitle text (black background). The show/hide text toggle is disabled in this mode.
Running a test against a TFA file will highlight control information. The highlighted text appear with a black background and can be hidden by pressing the show/hide text toggle button.
Test and the show/hide toggle button have no affect when the textmode is specified as 'Exact'.
TitleFactory find and replace dialog contains the options as shown. Recent find and replacement text is included on the drop-down lists.
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