Hi ! Why the saved subtitle made with subtitle workshop saved not sync ? ?

[Dj-DuDu]

Hello im new to creating subtitles , So i did try creating subtitle for some trailer in my first job , Now all done ok i think , before i saved the file i view it with subtitle workshop and all done great now after i save him all the syncronization messed up dont know why so thats my first problem , now i save it with microDVD format and it save it with sub and the video is .AVI but when i open it with media player it wont play only without the subtitle so please help with thats few stuff about how do i make the subtitle show syncronize and what format do i save the subtitle cause subtitle workshop have many formats .

Thanks for any help c ya .. . . . .

[Bjs]

You need to be more patient and atleast go to the guide's section in the forum and see if anything listed has any possibilities of helping you in the correct direction .

Number 1 :

Have you checked the true frame rate of the video clip you are trying to add your subtitle too ???

You may be saving subtitle in an incompatable frame rate not suited to the video clip ... ie , sub is 25fps , movie clip is 23fps .
For avi , use gspot to confirm the internal info of video clip before creating subtitle's will save time later .

Number 2 :

Subtitle workshop , from my testing is not the most friendly of tool's to get sync acurate subtitle's ... it's why I prefer to use visualsubsync or aegisub to create subtitle's ... more friendly (except for that painfull blue grab bar on the timeline ... stupid idea) .... two guide's that show how are

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=291971 , ability to loop back the player for even more accuaracy , and followed by
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=291741

These should be all you require to create acurately timed subtitle's , the second guide is the conversion for ifoedit (dvd) .

Subtitle workshop is more able at the conversion between subtitle format's , and is the only time I use it .

Those that have followed my guide have reported better result's in accuracy in subtitle timing's .

Number 3 :

I really dont rely on this particular method under playback (avi + subtitle) as you can have sync issue's , so here is a little help in regard to avi and sub's in player's .

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How to play an AVI file with subtitles (captions)?

There are several ways.

The easiest:

Use SAMI type subtitle files (.smi files: SubSync can create those or convert from other formats), and make sure that the subtitle file is in the same directory as the AVI file and has the same filename (i.e. if the movie is called film.avi, the subs must be in film.smi).

DirectX media 6 or Media Player 7 required.

Open Media Player (mplayer2.exe if you're using DirectX media 6).
In DirectX media player 6, turn on menu View -> Captions.

In media player 7, turn on menu View -> Now Playing Tools -> Captions.
In media player 7, this option has to be turned on before playback is started, or the captions will not run synchronously with the AVI file.
If you notice this error, just click stop and start.

Open the AVI file.
Done.

Other ways:

Download a player that supports different subtitle file formats.

DVlaD can use SAMI (.smi) and SubRip (.srt) files, and can display them along with any media format Media Player can play (even .mp3, if you want to display the lyrics with a mp3 track).

For .srt files, DVlaD allows a choice of font size. For .smi files, the font typeface and size are specified in the subtitle file (and can be edited using Notepad: if you've ever seen HTML, this will look familiar).

BSPlayer can be found on http://bsplayer.cjb.net/

Besides subtitles, it also supports AVI files with multiple audio streams (other players only play the default stream).
It supports SAMI, .srt (subrip) and .sub (MicroDVD) formats.
GlobalDivX doesn't support SAMI files and doesn't play all media formats DVlaD and Media Player can.

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Here is another tool that might be of interest : http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AVI_ReComp.htm

And a final guide that should also be able to help

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/subtitle_merge.html

It just depend's which way you want to go .

Convert to dvd
Convert to avi (hardsub)
Avi with subtitle (avi container packed) ... bit like including multiple audio track's .

Dont forget ... google search "avi with subtitle" would have returned more option's .

Not sure , but there seem's to be some mention of one particular topset divx player capable of using the txt format ... found via search .

[Dj-DuDu]

WOW

Thats alot of help for one person to post ,

Man i realy appreciate that usefull information .

Thanks for your time .