Adobe Encore DVD/SRT Subtitles issue

[garrisonkw]

Hello All,

I'm using Adobe Encore DVD to author DVDs. I like this app due to its solid integration with creating menus in Photoshop. I've made dozens of discs from scratch, but have never used non dvd originating subititles before.

I've got an .mkv file with .ass (or .ssa, I forget) subs. I demux the file, so that I have a .avi video file, .mp3 audio file and a subtitle file. So good, so far. I can handle the avi and mp3 with TMPGEnc 3 Xpress. It works fine.

Next I use Subtitle Workshop to convert the subtitle file to a Adobe Encore compliant .txt subtitle file. When I try to import these subs into Encore I get an error that some of the subtitles overlap.

Overlapping subtitle is fairly common from some of the anime fansubbing groups. Sometimes there are subs on the top of the screen and the bottom of the screen at the same time. .ass and .ssa subs allow for this.

Is there a way to convert these to a genuine Encore compliant subs file? Also, why doesn't Subtitle Workshop do this for me? Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I've spent a while searching for an answer. I'm not a whiny n00b who isn't willing to look for an answer first.

[Baldrick]

3 subtitle tools:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Adobe_Encore_DVD
i haven't tested them.

[garrisonkw]

Thanks. The first two won't help with the overlapping problem. The third claims to, but will only accept MS Sami style subs. I'll have to see if I can convert my current subs to MS Same. Who knows? Subtitle Workshop handles lots of things, but I've never seen MS Sami before.

The first option did give me another choice... manually go through and change all of the overlapping subs so they're no longer overlapping. I can certainly do that, I just didn't want to have to. Some of the anime I watch has many, many occurrences of overlapping subs throughout the show.

I suppose another option would be to hard encode the subs into the video. I mean, I'm never NOT going to want the subs. I don't speak japanese.