Help with subtitles, compress avi

[hello123]

Hello,

I have an avi movie which is compressed from the original avi, original comes in 2 cd's(avi's) and maybe just over 2 gigs, well my avi is about 1/3 the original size maybe 700mb, now the picture quality is still good for me but sound is hard to hear, i think its partly just the type of movie though, as well as a bit of loss due to compression.

Anyway i can find subtitles for the original, i.e cd1.srt and cd2.srt, sort of thing, now if i use the cd1.srt with my (single)compressed avi well the subtitles are not too far out of phase, but obviously i couldn't go through the srt and change all the values by hand, is there anyway to adjust all values in the srt according to the compression ratio's between my compressed avi and the two original avi's?

thanks for any help

[Baldrick]

Use a subtitle software to change the timing in subtitle file, like Time Adjuster or subtitle workshop. You can't adjust it automatically against the avi files and if it's not a constant delay you must adjust the subtitle sync in several places.

[hello123]

Thanks. For cd1.srt i opened it in Subtitle WorkShop, went to adjust subtitles, and set the start time according to the time the first line was read in the movie, same for end time. Now i just ran the first half of the avi firstly using this subtitle and it was in perfect sync.

So....thought it would be the same for cd2.srt, i set the start time and end time, (stopped movie at half way and deleted cd1.srt) and replaced with this newly timed cd2.srt, now in cd2.srt, although the timings had been changed the numbers hadn't , like the order number, 1,2,3,4,5...when it probably should have started at say, 634,635,636.. etc (don't know if this matters?), anyway the subtitles were all out of sync , but occasionally they would match up.....

Any idea why cd1.srt worked fine and i did exact the same but cd2.srt didn't, it wasn't that i had misjudged the start and end times in cd2.srt as i tried a few settings.

[GideonK]

Try this link, It may help.

http://divxstation.com/article.asp?aId=103