The three pipelines
| Pipeline | Input | Output | Use it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extraction | The dialogue on the active timeline | Subtitles in the spoken language, a time per word | You want what was said. |
| Translation | The dialogue and a target language | Translated subtitles with their own timing | You need a second language. |
| Scripts | The dialogue and an approved script | The script's own wording | A script must appear verbatim. |
Scripts needs Furnace. Scripts is a Pro and Max pipeline, and its option appears only while Furnace is on.
With Scripts selected, each script card holds one approved script.
- Furnace
Rough-cut a source and prepare script-aligned captions.
Starting a pass
Choose the range
Caption the whole timeline, or one section of it with an In and an Out.
Set the language
Pick source and target for Translation; Extraction and Scripts detect the spoken language. Source and target must differ. Type in your own language, or leave Auto on.
Set up the optional extras
Turn on Furnace for a rough cut first, Shuffle for Length, Animations and Formations, and Highlight for accented words.
Press Start
Start runs the pass with the settings you chose.
- Furnace
Trim pauses, clean up takes and let Cast choose clips.
- Shuffle
Length, Animations and Formations that pace the captions.
- Animations & Sparks
The caption look and the Sparks around the words.
Reading the subtitle editor
The editor shows the cut as blocks of caption over the waveform.
Blocks
One caption on screen, with its start, end and text. Move or trim it and that becomes the timing.
Words
Every word inside the block keeps its own time; you can move words to the next block.
Waveform
The audio under the blocks. Listen against it to confirm a line lands on the speech.
Editing text and timing
- Edit text
- Double-click a block, or press Return, and type. Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) saves; Enter starts a new line; Esc discards.
- Move words
- Select words and press Left or Right to send them to the previous or next block.
- Split at playhead
- Press H, or choose Split at Playhead from the block menu.
- Merge blocks
- Hold Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) and drag a block onto its neighbor to make one caption.
- Trim and nudge
- Drag a block's edge to retime it. Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right move blocks in time; Alt+Up and Alt+Down change lane.
- Undo
- Ctrl+Z undoes the last edit; Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes it.
- One caption
- Select it and change its style rows; the rest of the lane keeps its look.
- Animations & Sparks
Switch Animation, one caption's look and Sparks.
- Shuffle
Rhythm and motion for the captions.
Checking timing and coverage
- Play the cut with the waveform visible, and drag any block edge that misses the speech.
- Find every pause with no caption: a long one takes its own block, a short one can stay silent.
- Fix names, brands, product terms and numbers by hand instead of paraphrasing the speaker.
Length, lines and the safe area
Length sets how much each caption holds, and Emberu decides the breaks. A caption measured wider than its room at its Size wraps onto two lines before its Size is reduced.
- Length
- Short, Medium or Long, chosen for the whole video on the Ignite page.
- Punctuation
- Which marks Emberu keeps from the transcript.
- Case
- A Subs style per role: Primary, Highlight and Special.
- Every caption wears an Animation; Animations & Sparks covers the roles and the Sparks.
- Captions stay inside one safe margin, so the preview and the finished render match.
Highlight
Highlight accents one word per block in the Animation's accent colour.
- Highlight
- The share of blocks that receive an accented word, 0 to 100 percent. Zero turns it off.
Press X with the pointer over a word to accent that one by hand.
Highlight Punctuation. In Settings > Editing, off by default. Turn it on when punctuation attached to a highlighted word should take the accent too.