Tele SubTitle Information. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Before I tell you about Tele SubTitle I must mention that I will be on Holiday between Now and 30.9.94. I mention this because about 2 functions in the program (See Below) need more work doing to them and I won't be able to do this work until 1.10.94. ================= Introduction... ================= Tele SubTitle (TS) was a program I thought I'd write to follow on from my TELE series of Video Titlers. It was written with Amos V1.35 on a 2Mb A600. It uses Bobs instead of Fonts so that you can use "Cut 'N' Paste" DPaint type Characters with your SubTitle Sequence. Your Bobs can have upto 16 colours in them, I chose 16 because I thought this was plenty for SubTitling. Most Good Anti-Aliased Characters only usually have 8 or 16 colours in them anyway. TS was supposed to be a Hires Overscan version but I found that my version of Amos didn't support this format (Probly because EuroPress or Someone limited the Magazine Coverdisk versions?) so I decided to make TS Lowres Overscan with Overscan Interlace support aswell. The Overscan in this version is 352 X 283 (Standard Overscan in accordance with DPaint III) or 352 X 566 with Interlace. This is the Last TELE program. I will be writing Games and Utilities only in the future. 'Tele Title 2 Lowres' might be converted into an OVERSCAN version but this would be Shareware and not P.D as before if I were to convert it. Tele SubTitle is Shareware. The Registration Fee is just £2.50. This version allows you to have upto 20 SubTitles in your Sequence whereas the Registered version allows you to have upto 108 SubTitles in your Sequence, so Register! The Registered version will probly have Maximum Overscan and a few more Methods (See Below) aswell as better Code (more checks, etc in the program). You will find the Extension programs in the `Progs' drawer. Bob Entry allows you to Grab characters from an IFF Picture and then store them as Bobs in the Bob-Bank. Entry allows you to Edit/Load/Save your C.W Sizes (Explained Below) and Defined SubTitles (Also Explained Below). In these instructions (and the program) I've used the following terms as follows... Defined - These are the SubTitles Defined by me that you can change using the M option in the program (or the Entry program). SubTitle - This is used to mean 2 Lines of Text. Items - I've used this word to mean any/all of the above. ========= Bobs... ========= You can use the following Characters for your Bobs... A to Z Space - . ' ! & a to z " # $ % ( ) * + , / 0 to 9 : ; < = > ? @ I usually leave: A to Z Space - . ' ! & a to z as they are - I.e. Cut out an `A' and put it into Bob position A of the Bob Bank and so on - and then use the other 27 Bobs as I want them. This is one advantage of using Bobs, you can have other Graphics besides Letters and Numbers in your sequence. Besides these Character Bobs you are allowed 8 BackGround Bobs. These can be used for Logos, BackGrounds or whatever you want. The nice thing about these Bobs is that you can turn them Off/On whenever you like (except when displaying an IFF Picture). ================ The program... ================ When the program starts you will see the Main Menu with nine Icons at the bottom of the screen and in the middle of the screen are some of the SubTitles. You simply select a SubTitle by pressing the P key. To Cancel a SubTitle you simply press the C key, Pressing the M key will allow you to alter a SubTitle Each SubTitle can have upto 2 Lines in it with upto 38 Characters per line (See below for more details). Your Sequence can have upto 108 SubTitles in it However, this version only allows you to have upto 20 SubTitles in your Sequence...so get Registered if you want the full 108! ============== The Icons... ============== Icon 1: Show the Keys to be used. Icon 2: ME...this is my Address, etc. Icon 3: The Edit menu. Allows you to alter such things as: Fade Speed, Screen Display Position, SubTitle Position, Pause Rate, etc. Icon 4: Quit Icon 5: The Post-Production menu. Allows you to: Load/Save your Sequence, Load/Save your Defined SubTitles, Load/Save your Characters (Bobs), Load a Packed Picture, Switch the Packed Picture Off/On, etc. Icon 6: Test and Play. This will Test for errors and then Play your Sequence if no errors were detected. ICON 7: Cols menu. Allows you to change the Palette Colours. ICON 8: BGD (BackGround Display) menu. Allows you to Choose/Edit your BGD. I.e Do you want a BackGround with Bobs in it, with Bars and/or Boxes in it or Do you simply want your SubTitles to be displayed? ICON 9: Not in Use yet. This will probly be a Timer menu of some sort. ============================= The Post Production Menu... ============================= Erase Memory: If you use the Erase Memory function you will not be able to Save your items because the memory banks your items use will be erased. You will still be able to use your items though. Load Bob-Bank: This allows you to load your Character set (your Bobs). Space: This lets you change the space setting between each Character. You should always set this function, if need be, before you load in some new Defined SubTitles (see below). C.W.S: Character Width Sizes are the Widths of your characters. Defined: As said above, these are the SubTitles that are Defined. If you ever need to load some new Defined SubTitles (DS) you should always do the following... 1) Set your Space setting, if need be. 2) Load your C.W.S, if need be. 3) Load your Defined SubTitles. DS works by looking at the Space setting and the C.W.S to calculate their positions on the screen. If you only loaded some new DS then the new DS would look at the Space setting and the old (Current) C.W.S. If you only want to change the Space setting in your DS you will have to load your DS again - after changing the space setting. This is so that the DS screen positions can be re-calculated. The DS aren't checked everytime you change the Space setting or load a C.W.S simply because it slows the program down too much to always be doing checks. I could of stored the old settings whilst checking the new DS, etc but this would mean using more memory and the program would be even slower. You should find that once you've got your settings, DS, etc to your liking you won't need to use the Space setting, etc all the time. Save Config: This saves all the values (Configuration) from the Edit and BGD menus, aswell as your Palette Colours. The file is saved as: BGD.E.Config. The program will look for this file upon loading. The program will also look for the following files upon loading... B.A.Config - your Bob Bank file (your Character set). CWS.Config - your Character Width Sizes. D.Config - your Defined SubTitles. BGD.E.Config goes in the `Progs' drawer, the rest of the Config files go into their proper drawers. The program Default is used when a Config file is not found. Execute: There are 2 Execute commands in this program - Execute Run and Execute. Execute Run will try and run programs such as Amos programs, programs that can't be executed with the Execute command, etc. These programs have to go into the 'Progs' drawer. Execute will try and run programs such as PPMore, C commands Games, etc. This command looks at DF0: only - So if you wanted to execute PPMore for example, you would simply type the following at the prompt... PPMore DF0:Text ...this would run PPMore which would then show a file called Text from DF0: Note: You're better off putting your Execute DF0: programs in DF0: rather than a Drawer as the prompt only allows you to enter 15 characters. Grab a Bob: This allows you to Grab a Bob from an IFF Picture and place it in any one of the 8 BackGround Bob positions. This version only allows you to grab bobs that have a Width of 320 pixels or less and a Height of 255 pixels or less. This means to cover the Overscan of 352 pixels wide you will need to use 2 bobs of course. This will probly get changed to except the full width and height of the Overscan. These current limits are only in place because I ran out of time to finish this function properly - I will be on Holiday you see. By the way, when you Grab a Bob from an IFF Picture make sure the IFF Picture is Lowres 320 X 256 or the program may get nasty! X: Y: W: H: These are the co-ordinates for the above (See `Bar' and the end of Edit/BGD menus Below for the Co-ordinates lay-out). Bob No: This is the number of the BackGround Bob Position where the Grabbed Bob will go. Note: The Bob order of appearance is 1 to 8, therefore, Bob 6 for example will always go in front of Bob 3 when it appears on the Screen. This is Important to remember when organising your BackGround Bob Positions. If you Load a Sequence (whilst still on the Main Menu part of the program) you can go to the Main Menu and add other SubTitles to the END of the sequence you've just loaded. Don't type in your sequence and then Load a sequence because you will overwrite the sequence you`ve just typed in. =========================== The Edit and BGD Menus... =========================== Start: This sets up the Starting Position function. If you don't want your SubTitles to be Auto-Centered they will positioned at this STARTing point instead. Scr.X: Y: You can move the screen display around in the X and Y positions. This function doesn't highlight the screen so you will need to know what co-ords your Television (or Monitor) uses. Gap Keys: The Gap Keys are there to cut down on key pressing. For example with the Gap Total set to 1, if you wanted to change a Pause rate from 100 to 150 then you would simply set the Gap Total to 50 and press the Pause rate button once to reach 150, rather than pressing it 50 times to reach 150 when the Gap Total is set to 1. Wait: Allows you to specify the time you wait before your SubTitle disappears from the screen. This affects every SubTitle in your Sequence. This function is best described as a Timed Pause Rate. No.Cols: Use this function to tell the program how many Colours you have in your Character set. Cls Col: This is the colour your GenLock will use to make the screen Transparent. Box Col: In method 1 (See 'Methods' below) you can have a Box (a rectangle outline) in the BackGround, this function lets you alter the colour of that Box. Bar Col: In method 1 you can also have a Bar (a filled/solid rectangle) in the BackGround, this function lets you alter the colour of that Bar. P.Pause: Same as the Wait function except its used for your Picture. You will find the Co-Ordinates for the Bar and Box in the BGD menu. X and Y are the Top-Left hand corner (Start Position) co-ordinates. X is across and Y is down. W and H are the Bottom-Right hand corner (End Position) co-ords. W is the Width and H is the Hieght. ============ Methods... ============ Method 1: No Bobs required. You will use the Bar and Box, if need be, as your BackGround. You can display the 2 Lines of your SubTitle or you can display the first line only (See 'Sequence Keys' below). This method simply displays each SubTitle and then clears the screen. Method 2: Use Bobs. Display 2 lines or first line only, as above. This method has a 3 key option (See 'Sequence Keys' below). Method 3: Use Bobs. Display each line of your SubTitle, one at a time. This gives a possible 216 line display sequence. This method as a 3 key option (See 'Sequence Keys' below). There will probly be more methods if this program progresses. Perhaps a mixture of the current 3, above. Note: Method 2 is unfortunately limited to the number of Bobs it can have on the screen at any one time. Because of this I have put a routine in the Test/ Play Icon that will tell you to shorten your SubTitle if its more than 58 characters in length when using Method 2. ================== Sequence Keys... ================== When you press Test/Play and everythings O.K you go to the Total Control part of the program. This does exactly this, it puts the program in manual so that you have Total Control. The Sequence Keys are as follows... j: Fade In Picture (16 Colours only) - Pause - Fade Out. v: Show Picture (Suddenly Appear) - Pause - Fade Out. b: Fade In Picture - Freeze the program (leaving the Picture as it is). l: UnFreeze the program - Fade Out Picture. h: Go into Single Line Mode (Your Sequence will only show Line 1 of your SubTitle - This does nothing if you're using Method 3). i: Cancel Single Line Mode (Your Sequence will start showing the 2 Lines of your SubTitle again). s: Let your SubTitle's Starting Position equal the Start function in the Edit menu. This function switches off the Auto-Centering. You cannot toggle this function Off/On at the moment - I will do something about this after my Holiday. At the moment you have to press this button each time you want a SubTitle to use the Start position. 1-8: Switch On Bob number X (X is the 1-8). 9: Switch On `Box' function (Method 1 only). 0: Switch On `Bar' function (Method 1 only). F1-F8: Switch Off Bob number X (X is the F1-F8). F9: Switch Off `Box' function (Method 1 only). F10: Switch Off `Bar' function (Method 1 only). c: Bring up the Colour Menu (The Palette). a: Display SubTitle - Wait - Clear the Screen (Method 1 only). m: Change `Box' Colour - Bell rings from colour 1, onwards. Shoot sound tells you you're back to colour 0. n: Same as above, but Change `Bar' Colour. o: Same as above, but Change `Clear the Screen' Colour. r: Reset the Sequence to SubTitle 1. e: Exit to Menu-List option. q: Re-Start the program. d: Display Bobs and SubTitle - Wait - Clear SubTitle only (Methods 2 and 3 only). f: Display SubTitle - Wait - Clear the Screen of Bobs and SubTitle. On the second time and thereafter No Bobs will be shown as they were cleared the first time. This key press is really meant for clearing the screen on your last SubTitle, thus, a nice exit of the sequence. (Methods 2 and 3 only). g: Display Bobs and SubTitle - Wait - Clear the Screen of Bobs and SubTitle This acts the same as Method 1, but the advantage is that you can use Bobs, of course. (Methods 2 and 3 only). ======================== Testing the program... ======================== 1) Simply Load a Sequence (or Make one by selecting a few SubTitles from the Main menu) and then press Test/Play. 2) Now simply press one of the relevant Sequence Keys. Thats all there is to it, easy isn't it! ====================================== Please take note of the following... ====================================== I have not disabled the Break key so if you need to exit the program you can use the program's Quit option or press CTRL and C. To make a new disk up just put 6 Drawers on your new disk and name them the same as mine. I.e. Defined, Seq, Size, etc. You can call the Disk whatever you like because TS always looks at 'DF0:'. ============== Filenames... ============== I've only given you 15 characters for your filename because it's a bit naff for example, having to type in a filename of 20 characters or more everytime you need to load/save something...isn't it?!! I advice you to set your filename something like the following... 7Wed6John Where 7 is the number of SubTitles, etc in your sequence - Wed means your film is a Wedding - 6 is the Space setting - and 'John' is the name of your filename or the name of your Wedding Video person, etc. ============ Finally... ============ If you have any Questions, Comments, Ideas, etc, feel free to write anytime. You will find my address in the 'ME' Icon. Note: Because I cannot trap every error, I will not take any responsibility for the loss or damage of SubTitles, Sizes and any other data, etc caused by any of the programs on this disk. Note: I will not take any responsibility for any damage of GenLocks, Monitors Televisions and any other Hardware, etc caused by any of the programs on this disk. =============================================================================