It is also very lightweight, fast and easy to use. Fonts are pre-rendered by me to deny users from choosing lame/awful fonts or to use the dreadfull ClearType rendering invented failure by Microsoft!

This software is classic perfect example on how to code/design a program correctly in todays world of bloating, childish icon decease, airy GUI about and just plain simple BAD design and workflow of all the other software out there. I set the standard with my software design - just because I said so.

This software is free, will always remain free. An uprising to all other coders who charge money for simple coding projects!

You've just been had by Stone Oakvalley!



BACKGROUND
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The idea and concept for the "Real 80's Classic Videotexter (SORCV)" actually came from my own application coded back in 1993-1997 in AMOS on an Amiga 500/1200 called "VideoTexter", which was used for some small home-made movies I did, but also for a 20minute long short-film called "Knut Mollvik - An interview with the artist Knut Mollvik" (Splatter/Gore movie) shot in the late 90's. The actual subtitles and the graphics created and used in that movie (both Norwegian and English subtitles) came from my own VideoTexter on Amiga, and composited back with an genlock before recording the master onto VHS tape at that time.

Years passed, and mostly on a PC I used Adobe Premiere 4.2 from mid 90's and tried out every version that came out upto the latest CC (Cloud) versions. But, the funny thing is that even back in Premiere 4.2 there was a titling feature that I always though was sluggish, not very elegant and ackward to work with. Fast forward to today (2016/2017) to the latest Premiere CC and the same dreadfull titling feature is almost the exact same as it was back in the late 90's. Sluggish, ackward, useless and just a garbage pile of code. How can this never be improved by Adobe??!!

So, enough was enough and since I already had layed out my own VideoTexter I started thinking the idea that I need that good old Amiga version but upgraded to work on modern PC's with modern file formats (PNG, AVI) but keep some of my original ideas of how to create subtitles and how they looked. So, back in 2011 I slowly starting playing around with a GUI, some simple text rendering and 6 years later, we have a final V1.0 of the "new" VideoTexter called "Real 80's Classic Videotexter (SORCV)". A elegant masterpiece just for such a simple but important thing as subtitle captions.

The word "real" means that this software does it right. I've seen and tested a bunch of other suggested simple and neat subtitling software by other people out there, but they seems to always fail at programming, flow, design of GUI and the fact they let the user decide what horrible font they're gonna use for their own subtitles. My reference to "real" is to suggest that we go back in time of the 80's and think about the actual Subtitling machines/hardware that existed back then. Probably clumpy, ackward devices with a minimum possibility to change its appearance, and thus every subtitle from any country or age looked exactly the same!

The word "classic" means that I intend to keep the design and look of the subtitles created by SOCRV true to its age and mimic the old way of subtitling, when everything looked pretty much the same regardless of which TV-Station, country or medium it was produced for. Such things that last for 1-2 decades can be called part of culture and deserve to be honored for giving us great tv and movie moments back in the golden days of media. Now, you have that possibility to catch that feel and look onto your own home made movies!






EXPORT FUNCTIONALITY:
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SOCRV focus on beeing true to old classic design and old way of editing VHS movies (prefarbly homemade) by providing a pre-set logic and layout of subtitle captions very close to the originals as seen at least in Europa (Norway to be exact). The standard presets and profiles included and setup by me with the software are designed and matched up by looking at real authentic footage/recordings from the early 80's, 90's and 00's regarding regular TV-Channel subtitling as well as VHS rental movies.

Once subtitles have been exported (PNG, AVI or IFF), they are created with either transperancy or easy-to-key background in your favourite editing software. IFF (ILBM) timed script are in SCALA format, since that was the best software around for desktop video and multimedia geeks in the golden days of Commodore Amiga computers.

The screens are saved as .IFF, 16 colors, HiRes Lace Overscan to be compatible with PAL and NTSC video resolutions when connecting a Video Genlock to your Amiga together with SCALA running the exported scripts from SORCV. Full nostalgic effect and results - only made possible by Stone Oakvalley Studios!!!


Details about the exported formats:
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Single Subtitle (PNG): Will create image (32bit, transparency/Alpha support) files for each Subtitle (A+B) sets in sequence. Ready for import into editing software, but you need to set start-end time for these one-by-one yourselves.

AVI Movie: Will create a timed avifile which will render the movie as per timed recording. File is ready for import and will match original timing as done to the respective movie file you have used to create the timing. Note that transperancy is not supported, so movie will be with defined BG Color, so ensure to Key this yourselves correctly in your editing software!

Single Subtitle (IFF+Script): Will create .IFF (16 colors, HiRes Lace Overscan) files for each subtitle set, but also exports a script file suitable for use with Scala for the Commodore Amiga computer (intended for genlock) to achieve the ultimate old-school environment.


Details specific for exported scripts for SCALA:
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Supported: Scala InfoChannel IC500 (1994)
Supported: Scala MultiMedia MM400 (1994)
Supported: Scala MultiMedia MM300 (1993)
Warning: Scala MultiMedia MM200 (1992) - No FPS (SS:FF) support!
Not supported: Scala v1.0/v1.1 (1991) - Resolution / SS:FF issue!
Not supported: Scala500 v1.0 (1991) - Resolution / SS:FF issue!





THINGS TO KNOW
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Tested and works fine (minimum Windows XP required). Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 are of disgusting quality and design, so these are not even considered suitable for anything but new-age fancy wanna-be "Apple App Touch Gui" experience crap, so testing I'll leave up to users (I dont even care to get feedback it works) as I dont intend to ever run Windows 8/8.1/10 due to its social and public appearance with "tried and forced" appeal. Windows XP was great and still is, no matter what the Social Media and fake news sheeples think about it. You just gotta wake up!

That tiled Start Menu and the overall AIRY GUI look of Windows 8,8.1 and Windows 10 are of a massive industrial world-scale failure as I see it. But, as Windows 8,8.1/10 are based on Windows 7 chances are that SORCV will just simply work great for you, just test it!

SORCV does not require anything else than the executeable, the includes\ directory and the .ini file. Basically, SORCV is portable out of the box. The installer provided is for lazyness and automatic file extension .R8CV association only :-) No third-party code or plugins, dll or any other crap is needed. Pretty much how all my own created software is.

Sorry for the lame manual, but SORCV is really self explanatory.