Subtitler:Export QuickTime SMIL

You can export a QuickTime with the movie and the subtitles in it. The SMIL file is a metadata file that has the description of the video track and the subtitle with the tiff files. These description are just references, so you still need the video and the TIFF files. The file can be played directly in QuickTime player, but the realtime playback of the video may suffer as the subtitles are overlayed and not rendered. The trick is to open it and export it as QuickTime file in your favorite compression format or to import it into an edit system. Both are not very fast, depending on CPU. So this is experimental for the moment.
To successfully play the file, the movie and the exported tiff files must be in the same folder as the SMIL file. So the workflow is

  • Import your movie into subtitler and spot it
  • Export the TIFF files to the same folder where the movie is
  • Export the QuickTime SMIL file to the same folder where the movie and the TIFF files are
  • Open the file in QuickTime player end export it (you need QuickTime Pro for this).