Appendix C. EZTitles Command Line Parameters

Command line user settings

These command line parameters can be used by the system administrators to customize the EZTitles user settings.

-R=<settings folder>

The -R switch enables the program to load all settings, including project templates, dictionaries, profiles, shortcuts, etc., from another location, not from the default location in the "Users" folder on the local computer.

-C=<config file>

You can use this command line parameter to instruct EZTitles to use a different path and filename for project settings and project templates. This file, ezt6ProjectSettings.ini, contains the information in Project Settings and the system administrator can use it to setup different profiles to run EZTitles with. You can make two shortcuts which will start EZTitles, but with different subtitle configurations (for example to work with Teletext and PAC subtitle files). After you are done with changing the settings this file can be made read-only, so that the users couldn't change the respective project properties within EZTitles.

If the file contains already defined Project Templates you can specify which one to use by putting its name between these brackets "[" ... "]" after the file name.

-p=<profile file>

The -p switch enables you a profile file which contains user defined settings for shortcuts, visual layout and Command Options from the Preferences menu, from another location.

Command line start up actions

This command line parameters can be used to instruct EZTitles what actions to take when it starts.

-O=<video file to open>

This command line parameter instructs EZTitles to load the specified video file without importing it first. Please mind that only AVI, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV and MOV videos can be opened this way.

When loading video file using the "-O" parameter you can also specify which audio track, if the video file has more than one, to be loaded as well by:

-AT=<audio track to load>

The audio track is specified by the track number. The first track is "1".

Otherwise you may consider using the -V parameter.

-V=<video file to import>

This command line parameter tells EZTitles to start importing the specified video file.

The command line parameters also allows the user to generate the shot changes and audio-graph in advance. In this case the following sequence of parameters can be used:

-O=<video file to open> -AT=<audio track to load> -covp

-covp - automatically closes EZTitles after the video processing has been finished and the generated .dat file containing information about the audio-graph and detected shot changes will be found in the folder containing the particular video file.

If the import completes successfully the next time EZTitles starts and the same video file is specified in the command line, the program will load the imported file automatically.

-VF=<video file import folder>

default value: C:\Temp

If present, this parameter tells EZTitles where to store the imported video file from the command line. Otherwise the program stores the file in C:\Temp.

-TC=<start timecode>

With this parameter you can specify the time code of the first frame in the video file imported or opened from the command line.

-AA=<path to configuration.cfg file>

When provided with a path to valid configuration file starts Audio Analysis for a video file. The -O or -V parameters could be used to specify the particular video file.
More details about starting Audio Analysis from the command line is available in the Audio Analysis from Command Line topic.

-FO=<path to .ezt or .eztxml file>

The -FO parameter can be used to open an already existing .ezt or .eztxml file but also, if the file specified by the -FO parameter doesn't exist, EZTitles will automatically create it in the folder specified.

-Z=<zero subtitle file>

With this command line parameter you can specify a file from which EZTitles will read the zero subtitle.

It is a simple text file where each line represents a row from the zero subtitle. Format specifiers can be used in the zero subtitle file. They are replaced as follows:

%s - subtitles file name

%v - video file name

%a - aspect ratio, if the video file is 16x9 replaces with '1' otherwise - with '0'