DVD authoring using pre-encoded MPEG2

[indijay]

Hello All,

I am newbie with DVD authoring and so far I managed to edit my first one hour of DV footage in Premiere Pro 2.0 and then authored DVD in Premiere Pro 2.0 itself. Results were pretty fine using Mainconcept encoder that is built-in Premiere Pro 2.0
Now I realize that I can't add any subtitles into this video using Premiere Pro 2.0 so I have to take help of exclusive DVD authoring App.

If I decide to use Sony DVD Architect to author my DVD using the DV footage that I will export as *.m2v and *.ac3 file from Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to add subtitles in DVD Architect, will DVD Architect again encode this *.m2v and *.ac3 files? (I don't know if that is called as transcoding) OR it will just grab subtitle track, add it to this *.m2v files and build VOB files without manipulating mpeg-2 stream that was exported from Premiere Pro 2.0?

Please help me to clear my confusion.

Thanks a bunch.

[Baldrick]

It shouldn't reencode / transcode if it's dvd compliant mpeg and ac3 audio.

[stars]

Hi....

The authoring program GUI for dvdauthor will just take the three files
and put them into a VOB...no rendering


stars....

[indijay]

Thank you guys. I wonder where does this subtitle track reside? It should be embedded in VOB file right? then is subtitling so complex that only expensive programs offer this facility?

Its pretty confusing....

[pijetro]

Nahhhhhh, it's pretty easy dude..

Your .VOB (Video Object File) has several different streams on it..Main video, main audio, secondary audio, subtitles, comments..
Your DVD player knows to retrieve these components for display on your TV..

I believe there's freeware to embed any of these files together (as suggested already), but as far as paying goes, I think DVDLab Pro is advanced enough, with nice GUI, and affordable price..