Merging Video Segments with Separate Subtitles

[thomasj]

Hello everyone, I need some advice where to go next. I have taken home videos with my Sony mini-dvd camcorder. I’ve saved these to my computer as a separate mpeg-2 files per scene using the software that came with my camera. I’ve also noticed that the date/time is multiplexed in the mpeg-2 files as subtitles, and I can turn these on and off while watching the video on my PC.


I’d like to be able to combine these different the files together with each other along with other footage, while retaining the subtitles. I’d also like to make edits (cuts) to these videos—again retaining the subtitles. My final result will be DVD.


I’ve been able to extract the subtitles using subrip to a SRT file, but I’m not sure where to go from here.


I have Womble DVD Wizard and Sony Vegas Movie Studio/Architect, but these don’t appear to retain the subtitle stream.
Am I better off authoring new subtitles? Or is there a better way? I didn’t really want to hard code them due to the re-encoding, but I’m open to ideas.


Thank you.

[borax]

What exactly do you mean by 'edits (cuts)'? Just removing a part of the footage is not that big deal (ProjectX can cut mpeg2 files including subtitles), but if you want to rearrange scenes that will not work. The only possibility I know of would be to do the joining/rearranging in an authoring program which allows sup files like muxman.

[thomasj]

Thanks borax, I'll take a look at ProjectX. I don't really need to rearrange--yet... I just want to clip individual files then join them together.