Tutorials · Subtitles and delivery
Getting started with subtitles and delivery
Walkthroughs, in order, showing what you will see on screen. For a precise question rather than a lesson, the help page answers faster.
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Export what the client expects
The end of the chain: every recipient expects a different format. · 2 minutes
Pick the right format
DetX goes to the booth. SRT and VTT go to subtitling. TXT is for proofreading on paper, still the fastest medium for client sign-off.
Export in the broadcasters’ formats
EBU STL for European channels, with the French teletext conventions — an export that went through CANAL+’s own check. TTML for the platforms, switching to IMSC when the language requires it.
Duration and reading-rate constraints are checked and reported, never silently fixed: a subtitle that runs too fast shows up in the report, and you decide what gets cut.
Original or adapted
DetX and SRT export in both versions. Clients often ask for both: one to check against, one to work from.
Export a single role’s band
For an actor in a home studio, the role sheet gives their lines in film order, timecoded, with the word count, useful when they are paid by the line.
Render the dubbed video
The client wants to watch the episode, not open a DetX. · A few seconds per episode
Choose the picture
The source video is the one from the edit. It is not re-encoded: the video stream comes out identical to what went in, which is why an episode renders in seconds rather than half an hour.
Pull in the episode’s tracks
Pull in the episode’s tracks fetches the voice from the last generation and the separated M&E, where they were filed. Everything stays editable, and you can add tracks by hand.
Keep the original underneath is for checking, never for delivery: you then hear both versions at once, which is exactly what a broadcaster rejects.
Subtitles: burned in or embedded
Embedded track leaves the picture untouched and can be switched off in the player. Burned into the picture re-encodes, so it takes longer, but the text shows up everywhere — including in editing software, which ignores text tracks.
Render
A name, a container, an output folder. The file produced is the one you show the client — and it is also the one to run through quality control before sending it.
