Work with video with burned-in text in Compressor
If your feature video contains text already rendered into the video (sometimes called burned-in or baked-in titles), it’s important to identify the language and intent of those titles before submitting your package to the iTunes Store.
In general, you should avoid using burned-in text, which can confuse viewers when the text doesn’t match the language they’re expecting (other than opening titles or ending credits).
Furthermore, burned-in titles can conflict with subtitles or closed-caption text added to the video during playback. If both text elements appear at the same time and in the same place on the screen, the titles may overlap, and neither will be legible.
However, burned-in text is sometimes unavoidable. For example, traditional subtitles might already be burned into your video. Or you might need to include forced narratives, onscreen text that identifies a scene’s location or time (“Brooklyn, 1959” or “Later that night…”). Or you might require translation dialog that doesn’t match the primary language used in a film (known as foreign dialog translation).
In these cases, you must identify the text as subtitles or forced narratives and then specify the language and country.
Set the language and country of burned-in text
In the Compressor batch area, select the Feature row item.
In the Job inspector, scroll down to Feature Video Properties, then deselect Textless.
For burned-in subtitles, choose a Language option and then a Country option in the “Burned subtitles” area.
For burned-in forced narratives, choose a Language option and then a Country option in the “Burned forced narratives” area.
Set the India Health Warning
If your project contains health warning text as required by Indian law, you must indicate that the warning is present in your iTunes Store package.
In the Compressor batch area, select the Feature row item.
In the Job inspector, scroll down to Feature Video Properties, then deselect Textless.
Select the “India health warning” checkbox.
Designate the feature video as textless
If your Feature video doesn’t contain any titles, it should be marked as Textless. This preset is selected by default.
In the Compressor batch area, select the Feature row item.
In the Job inspector, scroll down to Feature Video Properties, then select Textless (if it’s not already selected).
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