Automating subtitles background width

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Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Jul 22, 2021 8:39 am

Hi,
For me there is a really big function missing. And i don´t think it is the biggest issue to develop.
I´m missing the Automating background width for subtitles. for every subtitle i make i have to manually fix the width.

Do you have any plans to fix this in the future, or do you already have a solution you can tell me about?

PP has it and therefore Davinci should have it
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostTue Jul 27, 2021 7:17 am

Moved to Resolve feature request forum
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Jul 29, 2021 3:53 pm

This has been asked a bunch of times in this forum at this point. Maybe one more +1 will get it to happen.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Jul 29, 2021 4:36 pm

+1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostSat Aug 14, 2021 1:56 pm

+1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostSun Aug 15, 2021 9:30 am

God damn please, such a simple thing missing +1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostWed Aug 18, 2021 3:20 pm

Yes, please! This is the only reason I can't use subtitling in Resolve, currently.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostWed Aug 18, 2021 6:37 pm

the subtitle styling is really poor. try adding a stroke for example..
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Sep 02, 2021 5:55 pm

I am waiting for this feature too.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Sep 02, 2021 6:23 pm

+1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Sep 02, 2021 7:34 pm

+1. it looks weird when my text is long but I have those couple of sentences that are like 3 or 4 words and the whole background width is long for no reason lol. I always have clients complaining about it so I just be using those transcription softwares to just bake it in the videos nowadays cause they have the auto width.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostSat Sep 04, 2021 8:16 pm

Yes, please. Add this feature.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostWed Sep 22, 2021 9:11 am

A requirement for the BBC. +1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostThu Oct 14, 2021 9:40 am

+1
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostFri Oct 22, 2021 6:56 am

Not had a chance to test but dreams may have come true
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=149263
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostFri Oct 22, 2021 3:30 pm

Still unusable.

Background width equals the longer line, i.e. you get black spaces in the shorter line. And, the top of the background is extended and can't be adjusted.

Also, Resolve can't handle imported SRT's with embedded formatting (italics) in any useable way at all. If you try to change just about anything, you lose all formatting.
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostFri Oct 22, 2021 3:41 pm

Johan Fleetwood wrote:Still unusable.


100% unusable... pardon me while I bleat, but they've broken older projects for which fixed width backgrounds on subtitles had already been created. There's now no way to open and update those projects with maintained visual compatibility other than by reinstalling an older version of the software first. Sigh.
Let's have a return to the glory days, when press releases for new versions included text like "...with over 300 new features and improvements that professional editors and colorists have asked for."
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostSun Oct 24, 2021 1:50 pm

Recently fixed in Version 17.4
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=149263
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Re: Automating subtitles background width

PostSun Oct 24, 2021 3:56 pm

C.T. Bell wrote:Recently fixed in Version 17.4
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=149263

They've stuffed backwards compatibility with older projects though Charles... fingers crossed they'll rescue that in a future point release.

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=140141&p=755921#p755921
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