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>From: Matthew Chmiel <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:21:15 -0400
>Subject: Re: #8580 Japanese Text Tracks in QuickTime movies
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Hi Derek and List,
Have you tried writing your QT movie with SMIL coding? SMIL offers several
options that support multilingual text displayed
on the screen. Basically SMIL lets you put together a AV slideshow with
captions, and changing pictures, etc. Here is the Mac
website for linking QT and SMIL coding - this particular link shows you how to
include different languages - click around to find
all the other info you need to finish it.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/index.ht
ml?http://developer.apple.com/
documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/quicktimeandsmil/chapter_10_section
_7.html
SMIL isn't that hard to do, but it is awkward the first time around. Basically
you create the SMIL file (japaneseWord.smil) with
whatever Texteditor you code in, include all the specifications and things you
want (how many seconds the movie is, what
images you use, what words you write in the caption, etc). When it is saved,
open the SMIL file with Quicktime. It should
open and play fine. Then you save it as a .MOV (so now it is:
japaneseWord.MOV). This should work fine as well. Then you
can embed your .mov on your webpage and play it. Make sure to include all of
the files you blend together on your server (the
images, sound files, etc.) so every piece of the QT movie you created is
available.
Hope this helps.
Matt Chmiel
founder: www.languagedialer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:38 pm
Subject: #8580 Japanese Text Tracks in QuickTime movies
To: [log in to unmask]
> --- Forwarded Message from Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
> >Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:26:57 -0600
> >From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Japanese Text Tracks in QuickTime movies
>
> I am having a problem with QuickTime Title Tracks. I want to display
> a
> Japanese word in the corner of various short QuickTime movies, along
> with the English gloss of that word. For example, one file would say
>
> "Agemas" (in Hiragana) and below it, "to raise."
>
> I can display English text as desired, but the Japanese comes out as a
>
> string of meaningless Roman characters and punctuation. This stream
> of
> characters is consistent for a given Japanese word. It also matches
> what I see in a word processor, such as TextEdit, if I try to display
>
> the hiragana with a font like Monaco. So I think I have a font
> substitution/character set problem.
>
> I have set the text tags (descriptors) to various fonts (capable of
> displaying Japanese), in the text file for the QuickTime Text Track.
> Using Arial, for example, I can display the Hiragana fine in TextEdit,
>
> but it comes up scrambled in the QuickTime movie. Using some of the
> Japanese fonts, such as Hiragino Mincho Pro or MS Mincho, I get no
> text
> on the QuickTime movie- just the black background of the text box.
> Both
> the English and the scrambled Japanese that displayed using Arial have
>
> disappeared.
>
> I have set the language: tag and the encoding tag to Japanese and
> utf-8
> in various combinations. Some settings seem to have no effect, while
>
> others eliminate the text, as described above. I have TextEdit set to
>
> import and export as UTF-8. My problem seems to be getting QuickTime
>
> to evaluate display the characters as the proper Unicode set.
>
> If you can offer me any suggestions, I would be grateful. Other
> techniques would also be welcome. I have tried inserting the words as
>
> iMovie titles, with and without third-party title plugins. In both
> cases, the text in the resulting QuickTime movie is too ragged and
> unclear for the professor's tastes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek
>
> Derek Roff
> Language Learning Center
> Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
> 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
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