NBCUniversal IMSC 1.1 (.ttml)

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NBCUniversal IMSC 1.1 (.ttml)

The NBC Universal IMSC 1.1 export is developed to comply with NBCUniversal's TechOps Inbound Specifications ver 2.4, December 2022. The following configuration are available:

Version

NBCUniversal's documentation specifies two type of deliveries: UHD/HDR and HD/SD with minimal differences except for text's presentation.

UHD/HDR - text's color required is gray (127 127 127 /  #7F7F7F) surrounded by 3% full range black (00 00 00 / #000000) outline;

HD/SD - text's color required is gray  (235 235 235 / #EBEBEB)  surround by 3% black (#101010) outline.

Language

Language will be filled automatically if it's been read and recognized from the source file or it can be selected manually from the list. .

No Region

The language identifier tag consists of two parts Language ID + Country ID. For example, if we select "English (United States)" from the drop-down, the corresponding language tag will be: xml:lang="en-US".
When the Country ID isn't needed, activating the No Region checkbox will output just the Language ID: xml:lang="en".

Title and Description

Title and Description and Copyright are automatically filled with the appropriate values from the file details if the source subtitle file is an .ezt or .eztxml.

Font settings

Allows you select specific Font or rather choose Generic Name of the font family.

When using Command Line/Config Editor of Watch Folder versions of EZConvert you can select/type in <from_source>. This parameter will take the font specified in Project Settings/Fonts or in the input .ezt/.eztxml file and will pass it automatically to the output.

Suggested font size is 80% for all languages except for Arabic and Asian (Thai, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc) languages. Recommended size for Asian languages is 100%.

Timebase

Timebase is required to be set to Media by specifiations.

Format

The recommended timing format is HH:MM:SS:FF but it's possible to switch to HH:MM:SS:NNN(NN) if needed.