Editing subtitles in .avi file

[telecomguy9]

I have a few .avi files that have subtitles. I'd like to edit the subtitles so that I can remove or change some words (they swear words that I'd rather not see). How would I go about doing this? I'm a complete newbie to this and don't even know where to begin. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer me.

[Krispy Kritter]

Depends on the type of subtitles. There are basically two types, hard and soft. Hard subs are part of the video and cannot be altered. Soft subs are stored in a seperate file (example: movie.avi & movie.srt -the srt file being the subtitles). Of the soft sub types, there are txt subs and image subs. A text sub file, such as .srt files, can be opened with any text editing program (notepad for instance) and edited. I'm not sure if you can edit image subs.

[telecomguy9]

Thanks for the reply. Man, that stinks. They must be hard subtitles, than, because all I have is the .avi file and nothing else. I guess I'm outta luck. Thanks for the info, though.