Maestro subtitle frustration...

[jliles]

Hi there,

I'm trying to do something which *should* be really simple, but I'm going nuts trying to figure it out. I cannot seem to find this in the manual.

I have imported .son subtitles into my project, and I want to change the text's color mappings. My project has no menu. I can change an *individual* subtitle color mapping in the subtitle editor, but I want to change all of them at once to the same color mapping (there are a few hundred, so changing them all individually would take forever). I can select all subtitles, but i can't change the properties of all at once.

Can anyone please help me?

Julie

[mazinz]

the one thing i can think of is whatever program you used to rip the subtitles to begin with (if thats what you did), you can change them in that so they are all the same color and psoition them wherever you want. This way its all set once it goes into maestro

[disturbed1]

Open your .son file with notepad (or other text editor), and find the color setting and change it to what you want.

[jliles]

Thanks for your answers.

Maybe I'm missing something. I'm using MaestroSBT to convert an srt subtitle file to a son file. The color mappings I set in the program seem to be correct (meaning, what part of the subtitle I want red to map to, what I want blue to map to, etc). The problem is that Maestro is interpreting the "red" mapping as black rather than the color I want. If I need to edit the .son file to change this, can you tell me where to look to make the change?

Thanks again for all your help...

Julie

[jliles]

sorry, I meant an ssa subtitle to a son file. I am using srt2ssa to convert an srt file to ssa format.

[disturbed1]

Open your .son file with notepad (or other text editor), and find the color setting and change it to what you want.

Just because you have it set in a converson program doesn't mean it's set right in the subtitle file.

SubRipper for example, doesn't put the italic and bold flags correctly.

[skiro]

This is how I do with subtitle in *.txt microDVD format to import in DVDmaesto

1.Check if you have synch subtitle with movie (29.97FPS for NTSC 25FPS for PAL)
2.I'm using small program - Sub2stl - to convert MDVD subtitle into native format for DVDMaestro
3.When I convert with this tool I check save color pallete
4.Hit convert and voila I have two files - ***.stl and ***.spf
5.Open DVDmaestro and import *.stl in subtitle track
6.click one subtitle and you can import color pallete (*.spf) into Maestro

[jliles]

Skiro,

Your advice was perfect!! It worked great!

Thank you everyone for for help.

Julie