Subtitles Track - integrating into colour pipeline

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Hi all,

I’m investigating the new Subtitle import option for the first time and wanted to check if anyone had experience or knowledge about the following:

In a linear timeline the subs seem to be clamped at 100nits regardless of the luma value I assign.

There doesn’t appear to be an option to render an alpha channel?

I love the ability to export the SRT back to clients with any changes applied, but right now I can’t see how I can integrate them with our workflow

Any info would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Gareth Parry

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I’ve just worked on 3 series last year with lots of subtitles on every episode.

Working them into our Baselight workflow was and is a nightmare.

I couldn’t use the subtitle track function, as I would then not be able to export them back out to grade as you mention above.

I imported them as a standard text layer which worked fine. Was then also able to colour manage / adjust them to correct level for HDR or SDR. I can’t remember about the clamping when using subtitles track, will take a look soon.

Where it all falls down for me is getting them back out of flame with an alpha. I’ve raised tickets with support and they can replicate the issue but they don’t look like fixing it any time soon.

Ended up having to mix them all down then sequence publish them out…

Does that help in any way?
Definitely something that made me hate flame recently.