A Little Treat for Everyone
Lee Thompson (shadow@nwlink.com)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:14:06 GMT
I've been (along with the Info Center, I swear I'm working on it ;) ) working
on a new type of subtitling project.
One of the problems with subtitling Galactic Heroes is displaying all the
necessary text (usually 3-4 lines worth if it's a dialogue-heavy scene) - this
can be even more problematic if a character title is being displayed (usually
it involves blacking it out and making a new one elsewhere).
Thanks to RealMedia G2 and the new "RealText" option, it is now possible to
play back live subtitles beneath the video picture.
I have not only embarked on such a project, but at this time I've completed 22
episodes. Each episode is approximately 30MB in this format, and currently I
do not have a FTP site where I could even consider putting these online.
CD-R is a possibility.
You may be curious as to how it looks and how the technology works.
RealVideoG2 allows one (or more) text streams to be referenced. The text
stream files are very HTML like, except with time codes. (The real boon here
is someone could translate the text in the .rt [RealText] files into, say
French or German, and boom, instant French or German titles.)
Currently G2 is available for Windows 9x and NT - but Mac and other OSes are
on the way (and promised for Dec/Jan). I have found that on the Windows
platform, you need at least a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM for good playback.
Well if you're still reading this, I'll assume you're curious.
I've created a SUBTITLED trailer (it doesn't spoil anything) that runs 3 and a
half minutes in this format. It is 4.6MB, simply download and unzip.
There's a readme for how to play it in your RealMediaG2 Player.
The Trailer: http://www.nwlink.com/~logh/media/lgh_tr01.zip
The Player: http://www.real.com
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Lee Thompson
shadow@nwlink.com