Comments lines are lines beginning with a slash /. The text of these lines is ignored by the rendering. You can use comment for personal notes. You can also use comments to comment out a language version: You spot and transscribe a movie, then the translator comments out the original language and adds the translated subtitle.
Special comments are used to define a property of the subtitle: Currently these are the /file, the /tc and the /style comment.
You can use a comment to add your own filename. If the commentline has the /file tag, the following text will be used as the filename.
Examples for comments
This is a normal title without comment.
/? chabis
Here I added a comment that i did not understand the word chabis
/file generique
This title will have the filename "generique.tiff"
/file 00:01:12:10
This title will be saved as "00.01.12.10.tiff" because ":" are not allowed in macintosh filenames.
You can use a comment to define a style on the title level. Adding a /style tag allows you to set titles bold, italic, underline or plain (remove bold, italic and underline) and align to left, right or center. Styles can be combined.
Examples:
/style bold
This is a bold title
/style italic left
This is a title which is italic and left.
You can use the /style color(red,green,blue) comment to define the color on title level. You can combine the color keyword with bold, italic etc.
Example:
/style color(235,16,16)
This is a red title with 100% video red
/style color(235,235,16) bold
This is a bold yellow title with 100% video yellow.
Note: You can only set the color of the title. Border, shadow and box color are global for the document.
Note: Do not use spaces within the paranthesis.
The Timecode comment /tc has the format
/tc 00:00:00:00 00:00:00:00
where the first timecode is the inpoint and the second the outpoint.
Timecode comments are created automatically with subtitler files from TitleListConverter. You can edit them manually or use the keyboard spotting commands to create and trim titles when you have imported a QuickTime movie.
Note for NTSC: Use the framerate menu of the movie to identify drop-frame and non-drop-frame timecode.
If you need a title to start with a slash, then use a double slash // to escape the slash.
You can define the style of individual words, using HTML-Style tags. The following tags are supported:
<b>Bold</b>
<i>Italic</i>
<u>Underline</u>