4.2.33. Exporting a SMIL clip
Document Actions
ELAN supports export to SMIL[4]-compliant clips. With a suitable player this enables you to view media files and the associated annotations as a subtitled movie.
Select the menu. This will bring up this dialog box:
Select the tiers you want to export. Keep CTRL pressed and click to select multiple tiers, press Shift and click to select multiple successive tiers.
Check if you only want to export the current selection. Otherwise the whole media file and associated annotations will be exported.
Check if you only want the current selection start time to start from zero.
Check to add the annotation times the time offset from the master media that originated from the synchronization of media files (see Section 4.2.3).
Check to specify the minimal display duration of a subtitle. For instance, if a annotation is only 0.3 seconds long, but you want to display a subtitle at least 0.5 seconds, enter 500 (ms).
Click on button. This will bring up this dialog box:
Click on the respective button and select the color from the dialog displayed to set the background color and text color of the subtitle text.
To set the font of the Text, click on the rescpective button and select a font from the font list
.Font size and the alignment of the subtitle text can be selected from their respective list.
Click button to set the default setting.
Click on the button to apply the new setting
Choose to export the clip.
Click on the suggested filename to change the location where the SMIL clip will be saved.
Exporting SMIL for Quick time is very much the same as exporting SMIL for real player (see Section 4.2.33.1)To export SMIL for Quick time, go to . This will bring up a dialog box very similar to export SMIL for Real player . The only extra option which is not available for real player is .If selected, all tiers are merged into one file and if not selected a separate text file will be generated for each tier. It is also possible to set a transparent background for the subtitltes. This is done by selecting Transparent background in the dialog (see Figure 4.48) which pops up by clicking the button. Finally click on to export.
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