The Project Settings dialog allows one to specify the processing and display options associated with the project.
The display Movie Size is used for computation of the subtitle size when displaying and playing back a media file. If a smaller version of a media file is being displayed than is actually used to provide to the authoring software, then the smaller size should be specified.
The Video Format is only used to populate a field on certain Timecode formatted files such as DoStudio's .dost and Sony's BDN timecode files. This field has a drop down list but can also be types into.
The Media Length is used for setting the length of the timeline. Incorrect media length may cut the timeline short.
The waveform tab shows the amplitude (loudness) of the project audio or video file on the timeline. Initially building the waveform may takes several minutes, depending on the size of the file along with the waveform options. In order to build the waveform, TitleFactory requires additional tools, available for free, which can be downloaded from the TitleFactory Website's download page.
When building a waveform for the first time or when changing waveform parameters or when changing the audio or video file used to create the waveform, TitleFactory will create a wave file from the audio (or video) file specified on the project and will create waveform image files. These files will be created in the background and will be placed in a new folder called 'TF_Folder_For_[project name]' in the same folder that contains the Project file. After all files have been created TitleFactory will insert them into the timeline. This procedure will take several additional seconds to complete. The waveform image files should not be deleted since they will be used when the project is opened by TitleFactory at a later time.
Waveform options control the display of the waveform on the timeline.
Waveform is only displayed if a audio or video file has been selected and is valid. The waveform can be hidden or displayed using the "Display Waveform" checkbox.
'Window Height' indicates the size in pixels of the waveform within the timeline. Valid values are 25, 50, and 100 pixels.
The image on the left shows the timeline with no waveform.
The image on the left shows a waveform with a height of 50 and Sample Size of 10. To select/move/expand a timecode entry using the timeline, when a waveform is displayed, the rectangle under the waveform must be clicked.
The image on the left shows a waveform with a height of 50 and Sample Size of 50.
'Amplitude Factor' can raise or lower the black area of the waveform. An amplitude factor of 1 can be used for most audio/video files. However, it can be adjusted if the files audio is too low or too high. Values between .5 and 5 in increments of .5 are accepted.
'Sample Size' refers to the size of the sample used to measure the height of the black area of the waveform. Values of 10 to 50 in increments of 10 are accepted. A value of 10 provides a very detailed waveform while a value of 50 provides a smoother waveform
'Maximum Zoom' specifies the maximum zoom level in pixels per second. The waveform will be displayed initially at the maximum zoom level.
'Frames per Second' specifies the FPS for the project. It is used in many instances.
It is used when reading a timecoded text file that is not in HH:MM:SS:FF format to convert it to HH:MM:SS:FF format such as the SRT format.
It is used to when writing out certain timecoded text files or when converting from one frame rate to another using the Convert Timecode function.
It is used when generating timecodes using the click method or auto generation to prorate sub-seconds to the correct frame count.
The 'Frames per Second' can be selected from the drop down list or typed in.
'Drop Frame' is used to populate fields on certain output timecode file formats such as DoStudio's .dist and Sony's BDN timecode files.
The 'Offset Timecodes' indicate the amount of time (in seconds) to add or subtract from the timecodes when reading a input timecoded text file or writing a timecoded text file.
Text parameters provide processing rules typically applied when processing non-timecoded files. The only exception is the use of the 'Balance' option which could be applied to timecoded files as well.
The 'Characters per Line' indicates the maximum number of characters to allow on a line in the Text Parsing routine, that is, when the input file is not timecoded..
The 'Lines per Image' indicates the maximum number of lines to allow on a single image in the Text Parsing routine, that is, when the input file is not timecoded.
'Parsing Type' should be set to 'word_rule' for phonetic based scripts and 'character_rule' for character based scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
'...Continuation Mark' and 'Continuation Mark...' specify characters that will be placed on the text lines when sentences are continued from one image to another. This values are optional.
'Case Conversion' will perform upper or lower case conversion on the script if specified.
'Balance' specifies whether the process should balance lines of text, per image. The process will also balance lines of text when sentences carry over to a new image. This will help to avoid the situation where a sentence goes to two images but the second image only contains a word or two. 'Balance' is most often used in subtitling and captioning, however, the downside is that lines of text across images may be different (some shorter and some longer).
The 'Balance' indicator is also used when the input file is a timecoded subtitle text file. If the input is a timecoded subtitle text file and 'Balance' is off then the text will be placed on images exactly as they are entered. If 'Balance' is on, then TitleFactory will try to fit the text in a balanced mode on the image. In this mode it may take a single line and split it into the number of lines identified by the 'lines per image' parameter.
'Output Image Name' specifies the name of the image files that will be generated in the CREATE IMAGE process. The '#' in the name is a sequential number that will be placed in the image name. The file extension need not be specified as it will be generated based on the file type. If ##, ###, ####, or ##### are used as the image number then leading zeros will be used to fill the sequential number. For example, image_### will result in image files with the names image_001, image_002, image_003, etc.
The 'Default Style' parameter specifies the default style to use when the LOAD TEXT process is used to populate the Subtitle Sub Window on the main window. The default style will be used later in the CREATE IMAGES process.
'Obey STL and SRT Text Formatting' will look for STL and/or SRT text formatting control characters within the subtitle text and will use those control characters. If those characters are found then they will override any corresponding Style parameters or Tag parameters in the Style or tag definition which had been assigned to the Subtitle, or subtitle line respectively. Only Italic control characters are currently recognized. The font specified in the Style or Tag definition must have an 'Italic' specification in the font or the control characters will be ignored.
'Movie Title' is used to populate a field on certain output timecode files such as sony's BDN subtitle file.
Language Code' is used to populate a field on certain output timecode files such as Sony's BDN subtitle file.
'Report Type' specifies two different report styles. Refer to report type 1 and report type 2 for more information.
The Other tab provides free format text fields that can be used in conjunction with TitleFactory generic output process. This process allows the Write Timecodes function to output a new type of timecoded file without having to release a new version of TitleFactory, only an XML definition file. These fields can be used when the information is not currently available in TitleFactory.
Due to the complexity of creating the XML definition files, this process is not documented and should only be created by the TitleFactory support staff. The location of these files is in the TitleFactory program folder.
The generic output process is currently used to write the SubRip (SRT) and the Sony_BDN (xml) timecode files.
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