How to make softsub from hardsub subtitle

[lequios]

Hi, I'm really a newbie in all this video editing stuff.


I downloaded a variety show episode twice, a raw .avi format and a hardsubbed .mp4 format. When i watched it, the HS quality

looks really worse than the raw. But because i haven't got the softsub of that episode, i really want to know if there is a way

to extract the subtitle from the mp4 hardsub and make a softsub out of it.


Please someone tell me if there really is a way to do it.

Thanks.

[davexnet]

it's not possible...

[rickydavao]

Perhaps using SubRip. Take a look at this guide: http://zuggy.wz.cz/guides/video.htm

Let me know if this helps!

[lequios]

thanks for the advice..

I'm still working on it, i'll let u know if it works..

by the way, the subrip guide says that u you also need to have the appropriate codecs and filters installed. For example, to open DVDs, you need DGMPDec. how do i know what codecs and filters is installed already? and because i'm going to extract the sub from .mp4, what codecs and filters i need? and how do i install it if it's not installed yet?

actually, maybe i don't need the codec and filter for the mp4 cuz the subrip already have avisynth so i just need to convert my mp4 to avi and i'm doing it now, but i'm still curious about that codec and filter stuff so please help me on that..

[lequios]

hey it's actually working!!

now i can have my softsub although it's not easy . We have to do lots of manual labor to help it's image recognition work.

[davexnet]

Thanks for the info. Never did this before, first I've heard of it. I've extracted text subs from bitmap-type subs using vobsub
utilities and its a similar process - takes a long time and errors can easily creep in. Good luck with it !

[lequios]

Yeah, thanks.

It's my first time experiencing all this video stuff, i think it got lots of interesting stuff i still don't know about, just like this subtitling stuff.