Too complex subtitles

wilka26 wrote on 10/8/2007, 7:26 PM

Hey, I finally finished subtitling my movie (took forever!) and now DVD Architect is telling me that a lot of them are too complex because of too many horizontal lines. Now granted I need to have some subtitles that are about 3 lines long because of the speed of the dialog. How can I fix this problem?

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bStro wrote on 10/9/2007, 1:24 PM

Try inserting line breaks in the overly long subtitles rather than letting DVD wrap them automatically.

Rob

wilka26 wrote on 10/10/2007, 12:11 PM

Line breaks didn't work, seems the only way to get around it is to turn off the outline, but I can't do that, otherwise it gives me a nasty black box around the text

MPM wrote on 10/15/2007, 9:42 AM

1 way to sometimes cheat is to use narrow fonts (I like Ariel Narrow myself).

If that won't work use Subtitle Workshop on your text sub file prior to importing into DVDA. If you created your subs in DVDA (don't), try converting the exported text sub file.

wilka26 wrote on 10/16/2007, 2:05 AM

How would I go about doing that? I created the subs in DVDA

MPM wrote on 10/18/2007, 9:31 AM

To set the font, zoom in on the timeline to where you can see & select a single event. Click to select that event in the preview window, set font size, attributes, then right click on event in timeline, clicking to apply formatting to that track.

To edit subs you can export your sub track as a MAC DVD Studio Pro text file. Checking an exported file against the 1 originally imported, the return character is off: might need to do a replace in Notepad or similar to replace that character with <P>. Open the text file in Subtitle Workshop, or your choice of sub program and edit away, saving the result again as Mac DVD Studio Pro text file.

If you use something besides Subtitle Workshop, you *might* have to convert the formating of the text file to match another sub format. The most common is .srt, and there are several sub manipulation tools that should handle it.

Subtitle Workshop has too many functions and optional macros etc. to begin to list here -- check out the web site.

To get the subs back into DVDA, save your project as a new name, delete your existing subs and import the new, edited text file.

For tools check videohelp.com