--- 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 Internet: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************