Video as subtitle track?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/19/2007, 10:58 AM

I was just watching "Ghostbusters" on DVD & they have a "video" commentary. It's three of the guys involved commenting "Mystery Science Theater 3000" style: black "shadows" of them pointing to things on screen while talking, etc.

But it's not an angle, I use the subtitle to add/remove this feature. How can they have video as a subtitle track? Better yet, how can *I* have video as a subtitle track!??!?!

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MPM wrote on 12/19/2007, 11:49 AM

If you find out, Please let us know!
I've been asking (& searching from time to time) literally for years, and have never gotten an answer. Anime uses it, and I've seen it on other DVDs. I suppose you could paste frames in DVDA, and maybe even finish after a couple of years... ;?P

My closest guess I think would be along the lines of converting the animation to individual image files, creating the timing file to go with them, importing that into one of the sub conversion tools, and hopefully outputting a std. sup file. At that point would use Muxman to create a simple DVD on hdd to test sync etc., DVD Subedit if needed to adjust, & when ready VobBlanker to swap the VOBs into a DVDA DVD on hdd. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot of documentation on a lot of the sub utilities, so probably a *whole lot* of trial & error. SubRip *might* be able to import the image files & index.