Revision History (TitleFactory)

Version 4.1 BLDE (28 October 2009)

Modifications

• Added support for Closed Captions as follows:

  • Added support for reading and writing Scenarist Closed Caption files including reading disassembled SCC files..

  • Added support for reading EBU STL files.

• Added support for Sony's BDN subtitle format on output.  This is used by Scenarist HDMV. 

• Support for format control characters on SRT and STL files.  SRT and STL style formatting control characters are captured with the subtitle text.  If desired the control characters can be kept on the subtitle text and they will be used when creating images OR they can be used to identify Line Tag candidates and deleted via a new Subtitle function 'Remove Formatting Characters From Subtitle Test'.

• Better Search and Replace functionality.  Search and Replace functions will identify individual likes that have had successful Search or Replace operations.  This is useful for subsequent operations on those lines such as adding specific Styles or Line Tags.  For example, a Find All can be executed to search for SRT control characters.  Several lines may be selected as a result of the search.  Then a Change Style and Tag function can be performed to add a Line Tag (with Italic formatting) to each of the previously identified lines.

• Provided a more complete Line Tag functionality.  Line Tags contain format information on a line by line basis and override certain Style formatting information as desired.  See Styles and Tags documentation for more information.

• Implemented Undo/Redo for line Tag changes.

• Relaxed the edits for a styles background color for transparent images.  All colors except for pure white or pure black are supported.

• When a styles definition indicates Anti-alias (AAlias) text and Inner Stroke then Imagemagick's stroke algorithm is employed (outer stroke is then ignored).  This algorithm is much faster than using TitleFactory's stroke algorithm which provides a crisper stroke but takes longer to perform.

• Made modifications to documentation to improve its readability.

• Added '50' to drop down list for Frames per second.  (Note that preset drop down does not preclude one from typing in a different FPS on the Project Settings and FPS Conversion windows).  Documentation changed to reflect this modification.

• Added support for file names, folders, path names using extended ASCII (ISO-8859-1) character set.  Other ISO-8859-X character sets may be supported but are have not been tested.

• Provided Arabic encoding for no shaping and two different encoding algorithms for shaping Arabic script text.  These encodings are found on the Styles window.

• Added Display Factor for computing the font size displayed for subtitle text when the Subtitle Display Toggle is set to display text using the associated Styles and Tags and Formatting Control Characters.

• Changes in User Interface

  • Added Encoding to text type selection window.

  • Disabled record/play buttons when no media is present.

   

Documentation Additions

• Quick Start Guide

• Styles and Tags and Formatting Control Characters

• Display Customization

Bug Fixes

• Fixed images for Right-to-left (RTL) scripts.

• Added and changed validations on the Styles window to indexed images. TF now allows various background colors when the image desired is indexed but will check for conditions that will cause the image to be grayscale and not indexed.

• Corrected Menu item quick keys such as pressing Control+s to save the project.

• Fixed status message displayed when clicking on Timecode or Subtitle Sub Window entries (single or multiple selections).

• Provided more accurate display of Subtitle Text when the Subtitle Display Toggle is set to display text using the associated Styles and Tags and Formatting Control Characters.

Version 4.1 BLDC (25 August 2009) 

Bug Fixes

• Correct problem with failing to display search/replace dialog on the input settings window when the Search/Replace button is pressed or the Search/Replace option is selected on the menu when right clicking on the text window.

Version 4.1 BLDB (31 July 2009) 

New Capability

• Added a "Synchronization Option", when checked will check with media synchronization error with the computer clock.

Bug Fixes

• Correct problem with failing to display timeline timcode rectangles with media has not been selected.

• Fixed looping problem when searching for audit errors and nothing is selected and there are no errors.

Version 4.1 BLDA (17 July 2009) 

New Features

• New waveform display and options to display the waveform to the project settings. (Additional download of free tools is required).  By default the waveform is not displayed.

• Added the ability to specify a video file (with sound) to display in the video window and use a separate voice only audio file for building the waveform.  A audio file created just from audio tracks will make the waveform more useful.   On play or timecode record operations, the audio is still played from the video file if it is specified.  If there is no video file then the audio will be played from the audio file.

• Changed the timeline to automatically zoom to a level as specified in the project settings, that is, zoom to 10, 20,or 30 pixels per second.

• New Timecode Audit validation function to check for minimum gap between timecodes.

• New Timecode Insert function supports inserting  any number of timecodes before or after an existing timecode.

• New Text Insert function supports inserting  any number of text entries before or after an existing text entry.

• Added a drop line to the timeline pointer and changed the look of the pointer.

• Added facility to use video conversion tools.

• Added all text and timecode functions to the main menu under Tools.

• Added double-click and right-click capabilities to the Timeline.

• Added cursor changes to  and on the timeline to indicate when Timecode Sub Windows can be expanded or contracted.

• Changed default main window display eliminating the text and timecode buttons. This can be changed in the View menu option.

• Replaced the text and timecode scrollbars with a single scroll bar.

• Added the ability to remove the headers from the text and Timecode Sub Windows.  By default headers are displayed over the Subtitle Text and Timecodes but this can be changed with the View Menu option. 

• Changed the Project Settings to a tabbed display due to the increase in the number of options supported.

• Removed Manual Activation since this has not been used for more than 2 years.

• Removed some media options from preferences since they are no longer needed.  e.g., Video Display size is no longer required since the user can now change the size by growing the window manually.

• Reduced Text and Timecode Audit Summary reports to only show counts for selected validations.

• Documentation for Version 4.1 has been updated.

  • Added documentation for audit functions.

  • Added documentation for building waveforms.

• Added Undo/Redo capabilities to Update Text and Split Text windows via the Control-Z/Control-Y keys, respectively.

• Changed working folder (where TF settings file, key file, timecoded definitions file, style definitions file, tag definitions file, and error logs are stored) to the Windows Common Application/TitleFactory41 folder.  On Windows XP this is "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TitleFactory41". On Windows Vista this is "C:\ProgramData\TitleFactory41"

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed Adobe Type 3 subtitle format input.

• Fixed maximum Timecode Range on various timecode audit functions.

• Fixed backspace and delete key text editing behavior on the Update Text and Split Text windows.

• Fixed Installation problems occurring on some Windows XP systems.

• Corrected problems with creating Indexed, Transparent, PNG images.

Version 4.0-BLDF (18 April 2009) 

Bug Fixes

• Corrected problems in writing timecodes for Adobe Type 3, Sub-script Timing, TFA, and DVD Studio Pro.

Version 4.0-BLDE (22 March 2009) 

New Features

• Documentation for Version 4.0 has been updated.

• Fixed installation problem.

• Fixed problems with generating tif images with a newer release of ImageMagick.  Unfortunately this broke indexed bmps.  Indexed BMPs, therefore, will not be supported in future releases.

Revision History (TitleFactory)

Version 4.0-BLDD (10 March 2009) 

New Features

• Documentation for Version 4.0 has been updated.

• New XML timecoded definition facility.  We can now release new timecoded subtitle files without sofware changes.  Virtually any information that we store internally can be placed anywhere in an output file.  We have provided the SRT format as an example. 

• Added an out of bounds audit check to the text audit function.  This will check for text that has done beyond the image boundary.

• Provided a better version of the Auto Arrange capability which arranges the MDI windows when the user makes any changes to the display.

Maintenance

• Corrected display of SRT style timecodes (accessible when toggling the timecode display).  The milliseconds were incorrectly shown.

• Fixed a potential performance issue when stroking an image that went beyond the edges of the image.

• Removed checks for changes to input files since the resulting warning just seemed more annoying that beneficial.

• We are now storing the timecodes in milliseconds in project files in order to maintain accuracy.  These were stored as frame counts previously.

Revision History (TitleFactory)

Version 4.0-BLDC (10 February 2009) 

New Features

• New MDI (Multiple Document Interface) User Interface.  Allows more control by user of the display which best suits the user's needs.

• Auto Window Arrangement and Snap to Edges.

• New options to detach the MediaPlayer window outside of MDI control.

• Detachment of Timeline is also permitted.

• Better control over the playing of media files through MediaPlayer.  TF will automatically detect synchronization errors and will stop if the synchronization exceeds a user specified threshold.

• New ability to Pause image creation (using the Pause button).

• Improved Picture Viewer with Image Attributes functions and ability to 'see' transparency in images.

• Improved support for Vista User Access Control.

Version 4.0-BLDA (14 February 2009) 

New Features

• New support for changing styles on a line by line basis (not fully implemented)

• New timeline

• Ability to move and stretch timecodes graphically with the timeline

• Support for dostudio .dost files (input and output)

• More audit capabilities for timecodes

• Autocorrect for timecode errors

• New text audit capability

• Configurable User Interface

• New toggle for timecode display format

• New toggle for Text display format.

• New floating text window

• New support for control of external Windows Media Player

• New support for png transparent images (indexed and non-indexed)

• Performance improvements

• Changes to Coalesce options - added a minimal interval when computing timecodes

• Ability to import timecoded formats that have file names instead of subtitle text

• New warning messages

Fixes

• Fixes to Movie Window display

• Fixed problems associated with importing SRT timecoded files

• Fixed several annoyances

• Corrected problem when resizing the window.

Limitations in this Beta version

• Documentation has not yet been updated

• New line tag feature has not been fully implemented

Version 3.0-BLDQ (18 November 2007) 

• Minor changes to previous release to make messages more consistent.

• Documentation has been updated to reflect changes made in Version 3.0-BLDP (01 November 2007)

Version 3.0-BLDP (01 November 2007) 

Main Window Functions

• New Automatic Timecode Generation which is useful for situations where exact synchronization of text and voice is not required.  Given starting and ending timecode values TitleFactory 4.0 can estimate any number of intermediate timecodes, setting the starting and ending values based on the length of the corresponding text entries.

• New Search/Replace Text Function for text in the Subtitle list on the main window.  If your director or editor want text changes and you have already timecoded your text, the new Search Function can find (and possibly replace) your text entries quickly.

• New Merge Text Function on the main window provides the ability to merge timecodes and associated text in one function.

• New Coelesce Function to adjust timecodes.  The timecodes' Starting Timecode can be automatically set to the previous timecode's Ending Timecode (or vice versa - or anything in-between).

• New Split Timecode and Split Text Functions.  This allows you to split text and timecode entries into two and automatically generate the missing timecode vallues (using the new Automatic Timecode Generation Function).

• New functions that operate on both text and timecode lists at the same time. These include:

Deselect
Delete Text and Timecode Entries
Shift Text and Timecode Entries Down
Merge Text and Timecode Entries
Split Text and Timecode Entries
Undo/Redo previous Text and Timecode Changes

Input Window Functions

• New Hexidecimal display of the text file to determine if you really have a UTF/Unicode formatted file.  Thius may also be useful to determine why some characters are not being displayed properly by your selected font.

• New additional Unicode support encoding types (e.g., UTF-16 and UTF-32)
   

Image Creation

• New horizontal character spacing in image creation.  Spacing between characters can be increased or decreased (bit by bit).

• New variable stroke widths.  The strokes (inner and outer) are longer limited to 1 pixel wide.

• Improved performance of stroking.  Much better performance than previous version.

• Support up to 10 lines per text entry.  Yes, that is 10 lines per image, or 10 lines per subtitle.  This may be useful for introductions or endings.

• New an 'estimated time remaining' when creating images.

Other Functions

• New Deactivation Function in Help menu.  The product can be moved to, and activated on, another machine.  Of course, it must first be deactivated on the current machine.

• New CMD3600 EDL (edit decision list subtitle text format).  Subtitles written in this format can be imported into a variety of Non Linear Editing Programs such as Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and others.

Version 3.0-BLDO (10 October 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added zoom, scrolling, and image information parameters to the Style Definitions Window.

• Fixed problem performing a Prototype function introduced in the last release.

Version 3.0-BLDN (03 October 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added zoom, scrolling, and image information parameters to the Picture Viewer Window.

• Added option to display the  timecoded text file with a program of your choosing whenever the file is created.  The program can be defined in the Timecoded Output Program Settings Window.

• Added many, many input encodings for Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese, Cryllic scripts, along with several alternate ASCII encodings.  See the Input Settings Window for more information.

Version 3.0-BLDM (01 October 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added SST preferences menu item to set SST Header parameters.  SST files are used by RealDVD and other Sonic products.

• Corrected the population of SST header information.  It always took the information from the 'Factory' style.  It now computes the values from the default style in the Project Settings Window.

• Corrected problem with specifying Balance on with timecoded text files.  Sentences were sometimes dropped..

• Fixed a hang problem associated with closing the view image window using the windows close 'X' button.

• Fixed problem when changing styles in the styles window. The changes were sometimes applied to the incorrect setting.

Version 3.0-BLDL (19 September 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added explicit option to write UTF8 timecoded text files.  This will force timecoded text files to be written as UTF8 even when the iput file was ASCII

• Corrected problem with generated continuation marks.

Version 3.0-BLDK (21 May 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Changed the Output Folder Selection Window which is launched on the Main Window.  The Window will start with the currently selected folder displayed.

Version 3.0-BLDJ (26 April 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added support for TF2.0 TFA input files types.

• Fixed a lock-up (freeze) problem parsing non-timecoded UTF-8 text when ending punctuation flag was populated.

• Fixed 'Shift Down' functionality in the subtitle box on the Main Window.

Version 3.0-BLDI (23 April 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added new TFA output file type and Input Settings Textmode type.  This dumps the parsed text data to a file.  The file can be editted in your favorite text editor and then loaded back into TitleFactory using a Textmode of TFA on the Input Settings Window.

• Fixed a problem with the 'Update Text' function.  If the text is updated with a trailing space, the text, saved with the project, may not load correctly.

Version 3.0-BLDH (18 April 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Added new warnings when input files/output directory are not found when opening a new project.

• Now allows timecoded text files that have character based scripts such as Chinese. to be re-balanced.

• Fixed .sst output where the folder name was included with every file name.

• Fixed Viewing of  indexed .bmp images.

Version 3.0-BLDG (27 March 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Fixed problem with the loading of timecoded text file.  The timecode that was loaded was incorrect.

Version 3.0-BLDF (19 March 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Features

• Added Line Numbers to Input Settings Window text display.

• Added better support for determining when changes are made to project settings.

• Added Revert function to the Process Setting Window.

Bugs, Annoyances and other Fixes

• Fixed DVD Studio Pro Output.  Removed folder name from the output file name.

• Made additional changes to correct problems when the 'Keep Main Window Open' option in the Preferences Display Tab is checked.

• Fixed Text Window Update problem. Entire file was going into the text window when updating the text..

• Fixed timecode definition algorithm when decimal_point is used to separate the frame count with the rest of the timecode.

• Corrected Revert and Cancel functions to properly restore style settings on the Style Definitions Window.

• Eliminated the annoying message and redirect to the Input Settings Window when canceling the selection of a new input text file on the Main Window.

• Disabled buttons on Main Window when Report Window or View Windows are displayed.

• Fixed problems associated with activation on machines with a non-normal Windows environment.

• Fixed abnormal termination when using the Help>Check for Updates function.

Version 3.0-BLDE (12 March 2004)

TitleFactory 3.0

Bug Fixes

• Corrected problem with Help.  It was looking for documentation in the wrong folder.

• The 'Keep Main Window Open' option in the Preferences Display Tab does not work on all Windows systems.  Hence the default for this option will be 'unchecked' meaning that the Main Window will close when some of the secondary windows are opened.

• Changed the Desktop Icon name to TitleFactory 3.0 (from TitleFactory) so that TitleFactory 3.0 can co-exist completely with previous version of TitleFactory.

Version 3.0-BLDD (10 March 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory 3.0

• Added ability to select the image text file displaying the source text data, as well as the text data in balloon help, Timecode Sub Window, messages and other places.  Fonts are specified in the Preferences Display Tab or by right clicking the subtitle box.

• Added the option to use the font family as specified for the subtitle box entries for the Image Text in the subtitle box.  This option called  'Use Image Specified Style' is specified in the Preferences Display Tab.

• Added right side buttons to popup window, when the Timecode Sub Window is right-clicked.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected problem with Search Help.  It was looking for documentation in the wrong folder.

• Corrected problem with adding duplicate style definitions.

• Corrected problems with the 'Keep Main Window Open' preference (see Preferences Display Tab).  Main Window sometime became inoperable when this option was turned on.

• Corrected problems associated with Canceling out of the Styles Definitions Window after adding new style definitions.  The process did not correctly back out these changes resulting in partially populated style definitions.

• Corrected excessive memory usage when display images with the Picture Viewer.

• Corrected problems with viewing the correct image with the Picture Viewer.

• Eliminated the annoying message and redirect to the Input Settings Window when canceling the selection of a new input text file on the Main Window.

• Better support for keeping main window visible when sub windows are opened. Sometimes the Main Window would lock up.  Refer to 'Keep Main Window Open' option in the Display Tab of the Preferences Settings Dialog.

Version 3.0-BLDB (01 March 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory 3.0

• Added option to keep main window open at all cost. This is now an 'Keep Main Window Open' option in the Display Tab of the Preferences Settings Dialog.

• Added primitive text parsing for character based scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean

• Added DLL module that is required for some versions of Windows.

Version 3.0-BLDA (26 February 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory 3.0 New version of TitleFactory

• Combined functions of TiCoder and TFactory from previous versions

• Video and more audio formats supported for timecode recording

• New Timecode Editing functions

• New Text Editing functions

• Improved timeline.

• New SAMI (Windows Media Player subtitle) output format supported

Version 2.02-BLDH (16 February 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory

• Corrected a problem with the creation of DVDSP  timecode files from TitleFactory.

Version 2.02-BLDG (16 January 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory

• Corrected a problem with the creation of the timecode files from TitleFactory.

Version 2.02-BLDF (04 January 2004)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory

• Under certain conditions, that is when the output directory was not populated, selecting a TFA output file or other files would not open the Open Dialog.  This problem was corrected.

• The process stops prematurely when ending punctuation is not populated.  Problem corrected.

• Made several internal changes to reduce future maintenance efforts.

Version 2.02-BLDE (30 December 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory

• Added unlimited undo/redo on output settings window.

• Support for Adobe Encore Timecoded input file to TitleFactory.  This type of timcoded input files have the timecodes on 1 line along with the first line of text.  Subsequent subtitle text lines appear on separate line.  Refer to Adobe Encore Type 3 Sample for a sample of this format. Adobe Encore DVD files can now be input to TitleFactory, and output from TitleFactory and TitleFactory.

• Added automatic - check for updates

• Changed message fonts to use Ms Sans Sarif or whatever the user chooses for the text window.

• Changed balloon fonts.

TitleFactory

• Added additional timecode editing functions (shift timecodes up, shift timecodes down, merge timecodes )

• Added unlimited undo/redo for all timecode changes.

• Added automatic - check for updates

• Changed message fonts to use Ms Sans Sarif or whatever the user chooses for the text boxes.

• Changed balloon fonts.

Version 2.02-BLDD (21 December 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory

• Fixed problem.  When closing the search View window, the entire application would close prematurely.

Version 2.02-BLDC (20 December 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory and TitleFactory

• Reduced the size of TitleFactory by placing the TitleFactory and TitleFactory into the same executable.  The functionality still appears as two separate processes, however.

• Fixed problem.  When closing the search Help window, the entire application would close prematurely.

Version 2.02-BLDB (18 December 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory and TitleFactory

• The user interfaces now fully support non-ASCII scripts, such as Russian, Chinese, Greek, Czech, etc...

• New timecode adjustment multiplier can now be applied to selected timecodes or all timecodes in TitleFactory.  This an addition to the adjust timecodes window.

• The font in the TitleFactory timecode and subtitle boxes can now be changed.

• The justofication in the TitleFactory subtitle boxes can now be changed.

• New subtitle box sizing bar makes control over the display much easier.  The box size is remembered on subsequent executions.

TLister has been removed from the distribution form TitleFactory

Version 2.01-BLDR (12 November 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory and TitleFactory

• Fixed problems with Adobe Encore Type 1 and Type 3 output

Version 2.01-BLDQ (12 November 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory:

• Added Recent File lists to TitleFactory for all files accessible from the main window.  Disabled the capability to type in a file  or directory name in these fields to avoid problems associated with this procedure..

TitleFactory:

• Added Recent File lists to TitleFactory for all files accessible from the main window including projects, wav files, and TFA files.

Version 2.01-BLDP (08 November 2003)

Features and Fixes:

All

• New search documentation tool for searching for text within the documentation.  The search tool is under help menu ( 'Help>Search Help').  It is documented here.

• Two Tutorials have been added to the documentation along with sample tutorial project files for TitleFactory and TitleFactory.

TitleFactory:

• Better Support for bidirectional text (mixing of right to left scripts, Hebrew or Arabic with left to right scripts, European text).  New documentation concerning the support for different scripts.

• Changes typed on the main window are now recognized and will result in a 'Save Changes?' dialog if the project was not previously saved.  This also fixes some strange behaviour where changes were not always recognized at all.

• A JPG prototype file now works as a prototype base file in the output settings window

• Added support for the mousewheel to move the scroll bar in the input setting text window.

• Left and right Arrow keys can now be used to traverse text input fields.  The Tab key will get the cursor out of the text field.

• Fixed the example of subtitle text file input at the bottom of the timecoded subtitle file definition display

• Added DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP_type_1 and type 2) output formats.  One produces the timecodes with the image file names and the other produces a file with the timecodes and input text.

TitleFactory:

• Added DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP_type_1 and type 2) output formats.  One produces the timecodes with the image file names and the other produces a file with the timecodes and input text.

Version 2.01-BLDN (02 October 2003)

Features and Fixes:

All products

• Double clicking a project files will open up the 'associated' software product with the clicked project file opened.

TitleFactory:

• Support for Arabic encoding

• Limited (untested) support for other Right to Left languages.

Version 2.01-BLDM (23 September 2003)

Features and Fixes:

All products

• New manual activation process is now supported. (Of course, the electronic activation process is preferred).

TitleFactory:

• Fixed support for SubRip input format and other formats that have a frame count of 1/10, 1/100, or 1/1000 of a second and timecode delimiters other than a colon(:).

• Added a Frames per second parameter to the process settings window to properly convert from 1/10, 1/100, or 1/1000 of a second to the correct frame count.

• Changed .SST  file header.  The DISPLAY_AREA parameter for PAL is now set to 0 2 719 574 as per ReelDVD documentation.

TitleFactory

• Program occasionally coalesced the timecodes when it should not have done so.  Problem corrected.

• Wavfile was not being saved with the project.  Problem corrected.

• Fixed 'SSTfile not found' message when starting the program when the SST file had not been defined.

• When timecodes exist on the TFA file (meaning that the input to TitleFactory was Timecoded ) the timecode information is showing up in the filename field on the output timecode text file.  Problem fixed.

Version 2.01-BLDL (05 August 2003)

Features and Fixes:

All products:

• Added support for Adobe Encore DVD, Captions, Inc., and FAB output timecode file formats.

TitleFactory:

• Changed the inner stroke and outer stroke to be outside of the text. 

• Writing a SST header records now accounts for the inner and outer stroke colors and will write the header correctly if both are used.

• Fixed several status and help messages which were being truncated in the status display area of the main window.

Version 2.01-BLDK (02 August 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory:

• Added an 'inner' stroke option to produce a 1 pixel outline of the text on the inside edge of the text.  The existing stroke option which writes a stroke on the outside border of the text remains in effect.  Both inner and outer strokes can be applied but they must not be the same color.  NOTE: For DVD production, the inner and outer strokes along with a caption or undercolor cannot be used at the same time, since the resulting image will have 5 colors (including the text color and the background color).

• Writing a SST header records now accounts for the inner and outer stroke colors and will write the header correctly if both are used.

• Changed the default project file to use the '####' notation for image number that was introduced in version 2.0.1J.

Version 2.01-BLDJ (31 July 2003)

Features and Fixes:

TitleFactory:

• The image file name under the process settings now accepts ##, ###, ####, and ##### to embed the image number in the file name with leading zeros.  This helps to sort the files for display purposes in Windows Explorer and video editing programs such as ADOBE Premiere.

• Corrected problem with re-registrations when acceptable hardware changes occurred.

TitleFactory

• Image files with embedded spaces did not write correctly to the timecode text file in certain timecode text formats.

Version 2.01-BLDI (23 July 2003)

Fixes:

TitleFactory:

• Corrected problem when ignore_no_punctuation is set to 'no' and the line had no ending punctuation. The line was, incorrectly, always ignored.

• In certain situations, the create image process did not end automatically and had to be terminated manually using the STOP button.

Version 2.01-BLDG (24 April 2003)

Features:

All Products:

• Simplified the activation process.  Only a single step is required.  See activation instructions for more information.

TitleFactory:

• Removed certain dependencies on the installation of ImageMagick.  ImageMagick is lo longer required to be downloaded and installed.

• added ability to view tif and jpeg or any valid file types

• fixed prototype image color problems while display certain image types.

• removed View (size) from the Preference settings and added scrollbars to image viewing windows.  100% of the image size will be displayed, always.

• removed quantum depth from output settings window.  This is now obtained from registry.

Version 2.01-BLDE (16 March 2003)

Features:

TitleFactory:

• TitleFactory now supports the creation of SST header information (based on the color settings in the Output Settings Window for better support of Sonic Solution's ReelDVD^® and Scenarist^® products.   TitleFactory can also produce a 'standalone' SST-2 header text file.  This file can then be read and attached to SST-2  formatted files that are created by TitleFactory and Tlister.  TitleFactory can create the SST header file automatically or manually based on TitleFactory preference settings.  Information on how TitleFactory populates SST-2 Header information can be found here.  The header information has been tested with Sonic Solution's ReelDVD^® 3.0.3. 

• Some changes to main window concerning the display of optional output files.

• Added ability to manually resize the main window.

• 'Open/Close Text Area Button' added to Input Settings window.

• Minor additional 'hint' text provided throughout the product.

All Products:

• The SST-2 formatted files are now written with a .sst file extension.  The .sst format as provided by SONIC Solutions is described here.

• The products now check, and prevent multiple executions of themselves.

Version 2.01-BLDD (11 March 2003)

Features:

TitleFactory:

• TitleFactory now supports the creation of an  'Output Timecode Text file'  for  timecoded input files.  Formerly, the procedure was to run the TFA file through TitleFactory to perform this function.  Incorporation of this feature into TitleFactory, saves a step.  The formats supported are Impression, SST-2, DVD Studio Pro, DVD Maestro, or Subtitle timing.

• TitleFactory now has the ability to read non-windows formatted text files, that is, files created on the UNIX or MacIntosh platforms.

• DVD Maestro has been added as an input format option in the default tc_definitions_file.txt.

Version 2.01-BLDC (10 March 2003)

Fixes:

TitleFactory:

• Corrected bad message which occurred when the first image create had no text on it.  It caused the TFA file not to be written.

• Add image count to status message when creating images so that the progress could be better determined. (Not really a bug!)

TitleFactory:

• Corrected a problem inputting timecoded TFA files (that is, when the input to TitleFactory is a timecoded file, then the TFA file will contain the timecode information, and TitleFactory should display the information).  In this case TitleFactory was not displaying the timecode information correctly.

Version 2.01-BLDB (09 March 2003)

New Features:

TitleFactory:

• Support for UTF-8 input files.  This is the beginning of several enhancements designed to make TitleFactory multi-language capable.  In this release TitleFactory can read Unicode files that are encoded in the popular UTF08 format.  Although the User Interface of the TitleFactory products cannot display Unicode characters correctly, TitleFactory can still produce images for any languages.  Unicode encodings are available for hundreds of languages and written text.  Specific TitleFactory changes include encode parameters which have been added to both the input and output image settings windows.  When UTF-8 is specified all file input and out is read and written in UTF-8 format (except for the project files, and timecode definitions files).  The printed report output will be printed in UIF-8, and can therefore be displayed in the correct script.

  The limitations of Unicode support in this release include the following:

  • The TitleFactory User Interfaces does not support the display of Unicode characters including text and report windows.

  • Since TitleFactory also does not support Unicode, some written languages will be unrecognizable on the TitleFactory window.  However, TLister can still be used to create timecoded text files.  TitleFactory does not have a UTF-8 input setting. in this release.  The TFA file for some languages, however, can be converted to ASCII with NotePad, without much loss of characters (depending on the language).

  • The wrap and unwrap text modes which allows TitleFactory to automatically parse scripts will not work for Right to Left written text is not supported, yet.  However, TitleFactory can be used if the input is either a Timecoded text file or and Exact text file, where intelligent parsing is not required.

  • Non-ASCII will not work in the Prototype function on the Output Image Settings window.

Fixes:

• TitleFactory: Corrected problems associated with reading font information from the project files.

• TitleFactory: Fixed problems with delimiter between text line (they were not always recognized).

• TitleFactory: Corrected opening of wav files which caused additional timelines to appear on main window.

Known Bugs:

•  The Prototype function displays colored streaks occasionally in an image if a BMP base file is used.  GIF files work ok.  JPEG is not supported as a base file type in this release.

• The Prototype function does not always work on the first button press.  Repeated button presses are sometimes required.

Version 2.00-BLDB (03 February 2003)

New Features:

TitleFactory:

• Added Timeline to main window.

• Changed Timecode Counter interactions to be more user friendly.  Added link/unlink button.

• Changed Play and Playback buttons, reducing 4 buttons to 2, in order to eliminate what is now redundant functionality.

Fixes:

• TitleFactory: Corrected problems associated with reading TFA files.  Erroneous error messages would sometimes be display.

Version 2.00-BLDA (03 February 2003)

New Features:

TitleFactory:

• Main Window

  • Added the specification of the output TFA file name and location.

  • Added a Stop/Resume button for using during the image creation step.

  • Added a 'Re-Create' function to allow for re-creation of the images that fall within a specific range.

• Input Settings Changes

  • Added ability to read additional file types including timecoded subtitle text files, TFA files, and Exact subtitles.

    • Added ability to input timecoded subtitle text files into TitleFactory and pass the timecodes to TitleFactory to create the subtitle text files.

    • Added ability to define timecoded subtitle text files to support most known and unknown  file types.

  • Added an input text settings tester.  The test allows one to quickly see the result (or affects) or applying the input settings against the input text file, in realtime.  After creating images the results of the preprocess step (which use in input settings) is also displayed in the text window.

  • Added user definable end-of-sentence punctuation, and option to ignore text that does not end in valid punctuation.

  • Added check for single or double-quotes after the end-of-sentence punctuation.  If a single-quote or double-quote is found then it will be included as part of the sentence.

  • Added a fairly sophisticated text editor.

• Added an 'Export/Import' settings function to TitleFactory to allow for easy copying of settings from one project to another existing project.

• Report Window

  • Added a 'Show/Hide Report' toggle button to main window.

  • Provided a 'Refresh Report' button in the report window.

• Image Output Settings Changes

  • Changed image output settings display window - changed notebook style to a collapsible frame style

  • Provided a quicker display of the output image settings window.

  • New 'Prototype' Function.  This allows for the quick viewing of a test image using the output image settings.

  • Overlay of test image on top of another image to see the effect of image settings on a picture background.

  • Better support for stroke (outlining annotated text with another color).  Stroke now produces a non-antialiased 1 bit outline of the text.

  • Fixed problems associated with the left and right justification of caption boxes.

  • Fixed caption box antialiasing that occurred, under some circumstances, when the caption box was not all black.

  • Added a 'Revert' button to the TitleFactory output image settings window.

  • Changed the font choice display on the Image Settings Window.  Instead of specifying a specific font, TitleFactory now allows the Font family and style to picked separately.

  • Fixed problem of selecting invalid fonts which caused TitleFactory to terminate.  Only TrueType fonts should be accessible.  Faux fonts are not supported.

• Added balloon help to the TitleFactory Input Settings Window, Output Image Settings Window, and the Report Window.

TitleFactory

• TitleFactory: Added ability to update a single timecode with an absolute value.

• Added toggle for display/non display of hints/status information in TitleFactory.

• Fixed problem in TitleFactory.  Under certain circumstances, the finger adjustment sound would not play.

TLister

• Added support for Generic Edit Decision Lists as input to avoid changes to Adobe Premiere proprietary project format.

All Components

• Ability to register and activate from any of the products.

• Added a 'Check For Updates' help menu function.

• Changed the display of buttons when they are 'disabled' in TitleFactory and TitleFactory.

• Fixed pasting into entry fields when current text is selected.  Previously the selected text was not overlayed.

• Added easier number entry fields to all appropriate windows (with up/down increment arrows and check for numerics at data entry time.

• Changed Window icons in TitleFactory and TitleFactory.

• Status messages have been moved off of the toolbar to the bottom of the window.

• Add additional support for the use of keyboard (arrow and tab keys) instead of requiring a mouse.

• Added version information to start-up splash screens.

• Fixed activation for certain configurations.

Version 1.800-0000 (17 December 2002)

• Changed icons and their behavior on the toolbar menus of TLister and TitleFactory.

Version 1.700-0000 (15 December 2002)

• General Bug Fixes and minor upgrades.

• Corrected problem in TitleFactory where the message '"The specified device is not open or is not recognized by MCI." would appear.

• Corrected the directory names the SST output files in both TitleFactory and TLister from forward slashes to backward slashes .

• Added a check when opening new projects, determining whether updates were made to the existing project.  If there were updates the user is prompted to save the existing project first.

• Changed some of the default options.

• Made minor modifications to the documentation.

Version 1.600-0000 (11 December 2002)

• General Bug Fixes and minor upgrades.

• TitleFactory: Fixed boundary error that under certain conditions would ignore the last four lines of a script file

• Change Browse for folder dialog to a more Windows standard format

Version 1.500-0000 (10 November 2002)

• Introduction of the TitleFactory product.

• Added balloon help and help hints to the TitleFactory.   TitleFactory also has balloon help and help hints .

• Included fixes from the patches.

  • Corrected color picker problems and problems associated with creating images and 2nd passes in TitleFactory. 

  • Corrected problems associated with 25 fps calculations in TLister.

Version 1.000-0001 (20 October 2002)

• Under certain circumstances the registration keyfile was not placed in the correct directory.  Software changed to fully qualify the path for the keyfile.

Version 1.000-0000 (1 October 2002)

•     Initial release of TitleFactory including TitleFactory and TLister.