Interactive player add space in transcripts

Hi Francoise,

We’re pleased by your happiness with our player.

Those empty lines could be caused by your subtitles formatting in that .vtt file. The best for us would be if we could see how your .vtt file is formatted. Do you split sentences into several lines in your .vtt file?

Thanks for using our plugin,

Juraj

Hi Francoise,

Thanks for the .vtt file! We’ll test it by ourselves and see if there’s anything we can do about it. We’ll keep you posted.

Thanks for being part of the Foliovision,

Juraj

Hi Françoise,

Thanks for your input on interactive transcripts. The original parsing was put in by the programming team without interaction from the creative team. It resulted in usable but unattractive transcripts. As a writer, once I’d checked in to what we were doing it was clear that we could do better.

Instead of breaking VTT into individual lines now, what we are doing are applying two tests.

If the VTT file inserts empty data for pauses (in most cases, this is what is generated by tools like the YouTube VTT builder), we will now add a paragraph break here.

If the VTT file leaves time breaks instead (what I might do by hand, some people do it this way), each time break greater than two seconds will generate a new paragraph.

To create an extra paragraph, as a content creator you only need to add the time code line with no text (as short as you like). I.e.

00:00:49.210 --> 00:00:54.300 align:middle line:90%

That way almost all files will be parsed correctly automatically and if you would like to do additional formatting, the control is in your hands and not in that of an automated parser making arbitrary decisions based on when the last paragraph appeared.

Again, thank you very much for helping us improve FV Player Pro. Your input has been invaluable.

Alec

Hi Françoise,

I did explain above including exact code on how to add paragraphs. You should open up a VTT file and read it to see what I mean.

The new version should be available almost immediately.

Hello Edward,

we will check the issue of the empty subtitle lines not adding paragraph breaks.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Martin,

sorry, blank lines work fine. I was probably misled by this caching effect. How often does the fv player refresh the subtitle file?

When you have a large video transcript that is about an hour long, you format the transcript step by step, placing blank lines in the subtitle file for paragraphing.

It would be helpful to be able to temporarily disable this caching to see the immediate effect of how new paragraphs are displayed in the transcript.

Thanks,
Edward