Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

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spiff
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Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

Post by spiff »

Hi all,

One of my masters is for 4K DCP with burnt-in subs.
When I select burn in, the subtitles look good, howver the drop shadow is cropped.
It appears to be cropped to the main title bounding box. So any show pixel below the bottom text bounding box is cropped.

Settings are in the images attached.

Can you suggest how to fix this and not crop the shadows?

Best regards,
S
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carl
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

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Hi, it seems to be just a bug (shadow was not taken into account when deciding how big a rendered subtitle would end up). I've fixed it locally and it should be better in 2.18.21. If you're in a hurry, let me know and I'll make a build for you to try.
spiff
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

Post by spiff »

Hi Carl,

Yes please. We would love a build fix as soon as you are able to help me with this.
5⭐️!

Best regards,
Simon
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

Post by spiff »

Hi Carl,

It would be very helpful if I could receive this updated subtitles version today, if possible.
We need to master this DCP for Wednesday, 9th July.

Please let me know if this is not possible, so I can inform my client and better understand your timeframe.

Best regards,
Simon
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

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Hi, apologies for the delay. I'm having some weird problems with my macOS build machine. I'll keep you posted.

Do you have the option to use Windows?
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

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I think I fixed the problem, hopefully some builds will be ready in the next 30 minutes.
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

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Here is a build which should work:

https://dcpomatic.com/build/shadow/cd25d0f

Do let me know how you get on if you try it!
spiff
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Re: Burnt in subtitles shadow is cropped

Post by spiff »

Thanks, Carl, for the work on expediting this!
My apologies that we are all MAC and Linux here.

I will test and confirm today.

All the best