Studio Subtitling

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Hello 
 Thanks for today&rsquo;s webinar. I am quite keen on trying it out on a live project I have on my desk I&rsquo;ve downloaded and installed Studio Subtitling plus all the file definitions, but unfortunately can&rsquo;t seem to get any of it working. For the files, there is no option to Prepare them, and the video preview interface isn&rsquo;t offered. (I had the old SubRip, if that&rsquo;s relevant, run Studio 2019, up-to-date, on a PC with Windows 10, all other apps/plug-ins work normally.) Any ideas? 
 Many thanks 
 Pavel

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hello Pavel Slama 
 You don't prepare any of these files. I think you should review this wiki as it might help you as it also explains about adding filetypes that you have installed but they don't show up yet: 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/w/customer-experience/4680/studio-subtitling 
 The SBV, STL and webVTT plugins give you the ability to handle source files created in these formats. Studio handles SRT out of the box, with these plugins you can handle SRT, SBV, STL and webVTT if you receive source files in these formats. 
 What you have to do is this: 
 
 prepare a project in Studio using any of the supported subtitle source files ( SRT, SBV, STL and webVTT ) if you have one. 
 Once you have done this open one of the files for translation in the same way you would open any file for translation in a Studio project 
 Click on the View menu when the file is open and you will see this: Click on it and the preview window will be opened in your Editor View 
 Position the preview window somewhere where you'd like to use it and select a video that corresponds to the source text you have received: 
 
 That's it.

Paul · Answer

Just closing this off as the plugins are all working as expected for Pavel and also Patricia.

Paul · Answer

Pavel Slama 
 ok... there's a couple of things here we need to look at: 
 Pavel Slama said: the SRT file type does not appear 
 The SRT filetype is provided as part of the core Studio product. So if this is not there there is something wrong with your installation. Perhaps you have been using old Project templates that are not properly compatible with Studio 2019 at all? 
 Pavel Slama said: so the additional filetypes have not been installed correctly, somehow, even though they are on the list 
 This might also suggest that you are using Project Templates and if you are then you need to make the changes with additional filetypes trick in your Project templates as well. 
 Pavel Slama said: As for the main app, it is listed in the Plugins box as installed, but none of the features (ie icons) appear 
 ok. I don't have an answer for this other than to ask if I could take a look at your computer with you over Skype or Team Viewer perhaps? There is clearly something wrong. Can you drop me an email at pfilkin@sdl.com and we can arrange a call to look at this together?

Paul · Answer

Hi Patricia AGUILÓ PÉREZ 
 Patricia AGUILÓ PÉREZ said: they are already included in the file types supported 
 That's good. I'm not sure why it sometimes adds them and sometime doesn't, but if you can see them in your list of filetypes then we're all good so far. 
 Patricia AGUILÓ PÉREZ said: I try to open an STL file I have to work with, but Trados says it is NOT a supported file type. 
 There could be at least two reasons for this: 
 
 You are working with Project Templates (or a previous project) and you have not updated the filetypes available in your Project Templates (or previous project) 
 The STL filetype you have is not a Spruce STL. There are two types of STL filetype and we only support Spruce since this was the one we understood to be more useful. Can you share your STL file so I can check it? You can email it to pfilkin@sdl.com if that's ok? 
 
 Thanks

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