Subtitiles w. DVD Shrink or DVD2One?

[ln108]

I'm an educator and want to make DVD clips for classroom use, short segments, 10-20 minutes. I can do this easily for English language DVDs with DVD Shrink's reauthor function. However, I cannot figure out how to get the English subtitles of a clip from a non-English film using DVD Shrink. I've also tried DVD2One (both latest versions) with no success.

Can either of these programs do this? Other software that could do it without too much technical expertise and/or tinkering? (I'm really not into fooling around with the more techincal approaches (VOBsub, Infoedit, etc.).

Thanks for any suggestions!

[jeremyp969]

Well, I might be missing something in your question here, but if the DVD has English subtitles on it, just select it in DVDShrink when you go to re-author, and then your'e all set. Just make sure you have those subtitles turned on on your DVD player when you're watching it.

If they're not on the original DVD then it's much harder, you'll have to add them yourself.

[ln108]

Thanks for your response. I have sucessfully created a segment with subtitles using DVD Shrink. I think the problem was either (1) I didn't check the right options in DVD Shrink earlier or (3) I only tested the earlier output using PowerDVD and the VOB file, without burning to disk, and the subs weren't displayed.

I notice that, even with my second, sucessful try, PowerDVD does not display the subtitiles, nor does it even offer an option to turn on subtitles, when just playing the VOB from the hard drive. However, when I burn it to a DVD-R, and play from my DVD drive, the subtitles appear in PowerDVD. Interesting.

Thanks again!