Tellavision — July 2024

Tellavision — July 2024

Welcome to another episode of Tellavision, our monthly product video newsletter. This one is all about Subtitles. We've completely revamped the way that you work and create subtitles for your videos in Tella. So let's just jump into it and I'll show you all the new stuff.

The first thing is that we've moved subtitles from the preview page where you used to edit your subtitles and brought them into the editor, which is now where you can edit your subtitles.

Subtitle Placement

Just by explaining that, it makes a lot more sense to have the place where you edit subtitles in the editor where you edit everything else.

To edit subtitles, you can click on the little menu icon here which says subs (as we couldn't fit subtitles all the way across without messing up the alignment of this menu).

Subtitles

But anyway, you can see it on the tooltip. Open that up and you'll see a little sidebar, which is where you're going to edit your subtitles.

The first new thing that we've added is you can actually completely disable subtitles.

Subtitle Switch

There are lots of reasons that you might want to switch your subtitles off, but when you do, you won't see them in the editor, nor will you or your viewers see them or be able to turn them on in the preview when you share your video on the web.

You can still export your video with subtitles if you want that, even if you've got this switched off. But subtitles are great, so I suggest switching this on.

The next new thing you'll notice is that we've added styles.

Subtitle Styles

There are only two in here, but by the time you're watching this, hopefully, you should see a few more. If you don't, then they're not going to be far away. We're going to add a bunch more styles here so you can pick different fancy styles of subtitles to match your vibe.

Once you've picked your subtitle style, you can then customize it. I've got this highlight option one there and I can click on the little controls, and then I can customize the subtitle.

Subtitle Style Edits

I can change the sizes, mess about with the text color, the secondary color, and the highlight color. I can use the color picker to pick a color that matches my brand. You can have a lot of fun with these.

Next, we've almost completely changed the way you edit subtitles. If you switch over to the editor, you'll get the full transcript of the entire video across all the clips.

Style Edit Mode

You'll get the timestamps, which makes it easier for you to see where things are happening and the way you actually edit is a lot better.

In the past, the way you had to edit subtitles is that you would click on a word and then down at the bottom, a little input would pop up and you had to type in your corrected word there. It was kind of annoying and weird that you would have to click on a word and go somewhere else to edit it. It just felt totally disconnected.

But now we've made it a lot better. You just click on a word and then you can start correcting it.

Subtitle Correction

Type in like this and then hit enter and you're done. You can just work word by word throughout your transcript to fix all your mistakes.

Soon we'll add, find, and replace so you can fix the same mistake that happens over and over, or mistranscription, or if the transcription gets a noun or your name wrong, you can fix all that in one go.

We've also changed where the download and copy subtitles tools live. There used to be a settings option. Now, you can just download the whole srt file right here, or you can copy all of the subtitles to your clipboard as text.

Subtitle Download

Then put that in ChatGPT to analyze what your video is all about.

When you have finished editing your subtitles, designing your subtitle style, export your video and make sure to switch on burned-in subtitles and that'll mean that your subtitles are part of your mp4 file.

You can then publish to YouTube and Twitter and LinkedIn and all those great places.

Soon we'll be adding the actual fancy subtitle effects and styles to the preview. Right now it is still just the regular plain old preview, but that's going to change soon, so hang in there.

Subtitles isn't the only thing that we have recently shipped. A couple of things to mention: the first is that you can export your videos in 60 frames per second if you have a Tella Premium subscription.

There's nothing really I can demo there other than it looks really smooth when you use 60 FPS. Also looks great with subtitles.

The other thing that I can show you is we have Multiselect. Now instead of going one by one and deleting your videos, or one by one to move a video into a channel, you can just hover over a video, click on the check icon many times as you need.

Multiselect

Then you'll see that we've got this little toolbar up here, which means you can take bulk actions on your selection.

You can add them all to a Playlist, or you can Delete them all, a lot nicer than doing it one by one. Instead of doing the check, check, check, you can just click and drag and make your selection like that too, much nicer.

That's all for Tellavision this month. Stay tuned for the extra subtitles updates that are coming really, really soon.

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