Latest Versions

[15.07.2010] Annotation Edit Suite 1.8.8.2

New in version 1.8.8.2

- Added Celtx 2 (.htm,.celtx) dialogue import (character, dialog, scene, action, note).
- Corrected an issue that could affect preferences.
- Revised Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) compliance. Mac OS 10.5.8 or higher is recommended.
- .890 import. Revised several special characters.
- BDN Blu-ray plugin: 1.8.7.1
Renamed to: Image Export (Blu-Ray, DVD, NLE).
Adjusted a default in Blu-ray HD/SD image export.
Enhanced QuickTime NLE movie export.

Version 1.8.8

- DLP Cinema export. Added option to exclude font declaration for use with current versions of Fraunhofer EasyDCP.
- Blu-Ray BDN plugin 1.8.7: Added fast export to NLE movie with alpha for Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects CS5. Other systems may require additional rendering to animation codec.
- Enhanced RTF without timecode export and import (justification, partial italics, metadata).
- Added SAMI (.smi) import. (partial italics, justification).
- Added Adobe Story (.astx) export.
- Added CPS warning color levels >: blue , +4 purple, +8 orange.
- Added import of Audiotranskription F5. (TC before first entry is expected).
- Extended Swift (sif) import and export: partial italics, metadata.
- Revised SAMI (.smi) export (Added partial italics, justification, special character encoding).
Font settings and default alignment use Movie Layout preferences.
- Revised .astx/.fdx duration/calculation.
- SCC Import: The "Use current track offset" import option now works with SCC.
- SRT import: Faster and more forgiving.
- Revised SSA import.
- GUI polishes

Version 1.8.7.2

- Added Final Draft 8 (.fdx) import and export (tags dialogue, character, descriptions, script notes).
Revision markers will add empty script notes, Logging comments will add script note text).
Duration on import is calculated.
- Added Adobe Story import (tags dialog, character, scene location).
Export as Final Draft 8 (.fdx) for Adobe Story.
- Revised Fetch from Final Cit Pro.
- Revised DVD Studio Export
- Polishes and fixes

Version 1.8.7

- Corrects issues found in version 1.8.6/1.8.6.1 May 2010 (strongly recommended).
- Added Avid ALE import
- Added NCI (.flc) rollup closed caption import.
- Faster Captionate (.xml) import.
- Added Captionate (.xml) export (single track,timecode, text, partial italics, alignment).
- Import option to synch offset to current track applies to most timed text imports now.
- Added option to use document specific timebase.
This applies also for documents created from Annotation Transcriber, FCP, EBU STL, Avid ALE and more.
Imported files are assumed to match the current timebase.
- Revised Avid ALE export.
- Revised OuickTime text import.
- Revised OuickTime movie text track import.
- Revised Softel Swift (.sif) import.
- Polishes.
- Added updated preview of zeitAnker Teletext.

Version 1.8.6

- Adds Import of vertical offset by carriage return from DVD Studio Pro track item
- Corrects an error with timecode offset to/by introduced in version 1.8.4.1.
- QuickTime SMIL is compatible with QuickTime 7.6.x on Snow Leopard.
- Revised SCC export and "QuickTime movie with closed caption" export.
(QuickTime currently expects closed captions saved as non drop frame).
Added option to shift 2 lines up at bottom.
- CIP Import/export: Start Of Movie (SOM) is interpreted as track offset.
- Extended auto-commit.
- Native time-code offset is now written to all tracks.Turn it off for changes to selected tracks.
- Revised SCC import: Supports import of partial italics.
- Revised auto-detection of YouTube SBV.
- Blue Ray BDN export: Added support for cropped iSD mages with Spruce son, and Sonic sst.
- Final Cut XML import: Revised import of horizontal position.
Please note Final Cut 7.0.2 may not save carriage returns to XML.
. Polishes

Version 1.8.5.1


– Fixes build issues found in feature release 1.8.5 and Blu-Ray plugin. (PPC compliance,, preferences).
– Blu-Ray plugin also adds Ultech .usf export to aid .uyc conversion.
– Added export of track offset / program start to Cube Master Pro.

Version 1.8.5

- Adds Import of vertical offset by carriage return from DVD Studio Pro track item
- Corrects an error with timecode offset to/by introduced in version 1.8.4.1.
- QuickTime SMIL is compatible with QuickTime 7.6.x on Snow Leopard.
- Revised SCC export and "QuickTime movie with closed caption" export.
(QuickTime currently expects closed captions saved as non drop frame).
Added option to shift 2 lines up at bottom.
- CIP Import/export: Start Of Movie (SOM) is interpreted as track offset.
- Extended auto-commit.
- Native time-code offset is now written to all tracks.Turn it off for changes to selected tracks.
- Revised SCC import: Supports import of partial italics.
- Revised auto-detection of YouTube SBV.
- Blue Ray BDN export: Added support for cropped iSD mages with Spruce son, and Sonic sst.
- Final Cut XML import: Revised import of horizontal position.
Please note Final Cut 7.0.2 may not save carriage returns to XML.
- Polishes

Versin 1.8.4

- Changes in respect to Mac OS X 10.6.3.
Multi-track SMIL QuickTime preview is now optional.
On Snow Leopard QuickTime Player 7.6.x is only required for QuickTime SMIL preview.
- Corrects a possible text overlay issue in the video controller, when horizontal position was set.
- Plugins show nicer font selection behavior.
- PAC import: Vertical position is now supported.
- Marked subtitles can show up with markers in Final Cut Pro.
- Revised Final Cut Pro XML plugin pair, includes AE Subtitle 1.2
- First track in subtitle sequence is left empty for your video.
- Added Installer with options for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.
- Improved handling of free formatted scripts.
- Automatically corrects illegal shift by line values.
- Better handling of QuickTime movies with low time scales.
- Now uses character count for subtitle split.
- Translates horizontal position to justification for formats that only use justification.
- N-dashes and M-Dashes are only normalized when required.
- Corrected german localization.
- Revised export to QuickTime movie.
- Blu-Ray BDN export plugin vs 1.8.5:
Added shift line up/down to cropped and full-frame images.
-Added option: Adjust attributes or font size.
-Added backdrop preview.
-Allows cropped BDN / FCP / DVD SP / Encore SD images.
- Added zeitAnker Timecode (preview) for providing timecode tracks.
- Less processor usage.
- Refinements.

Version 1.8.3

- Added shortcuts for insert/delete before or after current subtitle.
- Added menu items to process subtitle lines.
- Discreet assignment of justification and horizontal position.
- For export to FCP XML AE Subtitle and Blu-Ray BDN images.
- Export preferences: Added option to include metadata in RTF formats.
- RTF with Timecode import. Added import of track metadata.
- Added auto detection to more transcript formats, e.g. GoogleTranscript, Transcriva doc,rtf.txt, Transana (rtf,txt,doc), Transcriber (trs) -text,timecode.
- TranStation .DUB/SUB/CAP import (text, timecode).
- Added option to export speaker information (characters metadata) to RTF.
- Added processing options for transcript preproduction.
- Changed "Swap Lines" to "Process Lines", Options are Swap lines, Create track without first line, create track without last line, transfer first line to characters metadata. Please check the new key modifiers.
- Added Cheetah International cap import (many closed caption attributes).
- Revised Fast Logging calculates end: The previous entry can be sliced.
- PAC import: enhanced compatibility with some PAC dialects. Added import preference to read greek PAC files. Speed improvements.
- Added Titra .tit import (DOS latin-1, partial italic, horizontal and vertical alignment).
- Basic SPOT.spt import. (latin text ,timecode).
- Allows non-standard Google Translate srt.
- Updated Final Cut plugin pair: Enhanced backward compatibility:
- Added "Justify Centered" position, font measurement.
- Please revise your FCP Export font settings
- Includes older plugin pair to avoid migration of archived projects.
- Revised SCC import and export.
- Added title safe margin setting.
- Easier Fast Logging setup.
- New Blu-Ray BDN plugin vs.1.8
- New Annotation Transcriber 1.6.3 .
- Updated zeitAnker Teletext preview.
- Added QOS reporter.
- Fixes and polishes.


Version 1.8.2
- Added quick access to recent export and plugins.
- Added de-interlacing to more file formats.
- All products are tested with MXF4Mac.
- EBU STL import/export. Added cyrillic, hebrew, greek and arabic.
Select russian, hebrew, greek or arabic as track or EBU export language.
Import preferences can force a specific character encoding.
- EBU STL latin import/export: Added symbol characters.
- EBU STL import/export: All code pages are supported.
- Enhanced icelandic PAC/RAC import.
- Revised new FCP XML backdrop export, Final Cut XML settings import and partial subtitle plugin backward compatibility.
For left/right alignment with justification choose the new AE subtitle plugin.
- OS X specific fixes: DVD SP / DFXP italic import, Apple Remote support.
- Finalized QUBE Master Pro import/export.
- Revised word shuffle and merge with next/previous subtitle.
- Revised selection behavior with gaps set to zero.
- DFXP export.: Nicer formatting of partial italics.
- .890 import: Cleaned up partial italics.
- Also updated Annotation Transcriber, zeitAnker Teletext (Preview) and Blu-Ray BDN plugin.
- Enhanced general stability, user interface and localization.

New in version 1.8.1

- Added Screen .PAC import: (PAL, partial italics, latin, alignmentt).
- Added Screen .RAC import: (PAL, partial italics, latin, alignmentt).
- Scantitling .890 import: extended latin character set.
- Added import of 1080p and 720p CEA 708 QuickTime closed caption tracks.
- FInal Cut XML import: Added import of more 3rd party text generators.
- This release includes an early test version of zeitAnker Teletext (EBU STL 1 for the hearing impaired).

Version 1.8

- Added first version of Scantitling .890 import (partial italic, alignment, western latin).
- Added import Cheetah asc closed captions (partial italic, alignment,, caption type).
- Added Screen Win2020 ASCII import (partial italic, alignment).
- Added first version of MAGPie project import
- (caption tracks with partial italic and alignment, audio description tracks).
- Added import of Softitler txt (partial italic and alignment).
- Added import of partial italic to QuickTime Text, Universal Subtitle, DLP Cinema format and DFXP Flash CC component in addition to CCForFlash.
- Added import and export: YouTube sbv.
- Added import and export: Cube Cinema Text.
- Added import of CEA 708 HD 720/1080 QuickTime closed captions.
- Final Cut Pro export: Added compatibility with Motion 4 templates.
- Added Motion 4 example templates.
- Added new Final Cut export and Final Cut AE Subtitle plugin.
Refined margin, alignment/justification, vertical offset per subtitle, backdrop rendering and metadata. All new features require the new FCP plugin.
- Final Cut Pro export: Changed to respect track program start value. Less verbose XML.
- Final Cut Pro import: extended import of logging metadata.
- Final Cut Pro import: Added settings import from a single selected subtitle XML.
- DAS import: Added compatibility with more DAS variants.
- Added basic SoftNI import (alignment, vertical alignment, partial italic).
- DFXP import: Enhanced compatibility with 3rd party DFXP files.
- DFXP export: Less verbose paragraph styles.
- Export of author and track title as metadata.
- Better import of hand-coded partial italics.
- Revised EBU STL import and export.
- Revised for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger backward compatibility.
- Revised some more rarely used importers.
- Revised Blu-Ray BDN installer.
- Finalized import of QuickTime movie text, chapter and subtitle tracks.
- General performance improvements and fixes.

Annotation_Edit_1.8.8.2.zip

[16.06.2010] zeitAnker Annotation Transcriber 1.6.3.2

Changes:

- Added timecode update for Audiotranskription F4/F5 imports
- Some polishes.

Version 1.6.3.1

- Allows non-standard Google Translate .srt
- Added QOS report.

Download: Annotation_Transcriber_1.6.3.2.zip