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Text items are created on the selected track, accordingly to the time codes found in the SRT files. This action is possible thanks to the script: HeDa_Import SRT.lua These two scripts are the core of our text item based subtitling workflow.

#TIME SELECTION REAPER HOW TO#

How to use this text items ? What are the key points of this new subtitling workflow ?īefore reading this article, be sure to know what are ReaScripts. This is a nice collaborative effort of the REAPER un-official community development. We started from one native empty item action only and ended with more than 40 actions. And finally, from scripters: HeDa, who initiated this new workflow by providing a nice text items window reader, and the fundamental import/export SRT from text items, and myself, who coded a lot of new actions for these text items. Secondly from SWS extension team (and Breeder, especially), who also made a lot of functions accessible for ReaScript in REAPER v5. That it is the result of a lot of hard work.įirst from Cockos, who made a lot of improvements in REAPER v5 for scripting, video support, and some improvements about empty items. You can still have other regions, because they are just items.Some regions actions are not friendly with region subtitles.

You can see all subtitles in the Arrangement View (regions subtitles need the edit cursor to be inside the parent region to be displayed).

You can have several layers (tracks) of text items (useful for alternative version, backups, other languages, character dialogs, selective export, different frame rates…).

There is a lot more ways to edit items than regions.

You can use a lot of already existing actions related to items.

You can then work on multiple text items at the same time.

This paradigm shift offers a lot of new possibilities compared to regions. The core idea behind this new workflow: use empty items as text items, instead of using region subtitles from SWS. I only do the first minute, with the help of a transcript. It is a conference, so there is only one speaker, and really few background noises. Here is a demo, with a single audio track, using the Dynamic Split function. The answer is a yes so big that it makes all my other REAPER subtitling articles obsolete.

#TIME SELECTION REAPER MOVIE#

If the audio project was done in the REAPER, with audio items named with dialog lines, transcoding full length movie into basic subtitles only took a minute.ĭespite all that, subtitling in REAPER still looked a bit hacky… nice, but not handy, we couldn’t really feel a deep integration… Could it be more flexible, ergonomic and powerful ? I had myself contribute to the development of subtitling with REAPER, by providing new Region actions (via scripts), actions modifications (via SWS extension fork) and the elaboration of advanced workflows. Last year, I wrote a lot about subtitling with Region in REAPER, and how handy it was to use a DAW for defining time codes, thanks to sound waveforms visualization, audio analysis, and items. 9 Polish the Subtitles with Dedicated Softwares.

5 Text Items Creations and Mergin Scripts.

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