Addings subs to a japanese DVD

[kroc_kroc]

I'm planning on buying the R2 Japanese release of one of my favorite films – Suicide Circle. This has no English subs. There is a R1 release available but the video quality IMO is dreadful – I have it. In order for me to enjoy this film in all its glory I would like to know if it's easy to add the subs myself.

I've downloaded a .srt file for the relevant subs to the above film. When I get the film what do I do to add the subs keeping the video at the best quality possible. All I know if to RIP the DVD to my hard drive (to get the VOB files) and then thats where I'm stuck. I'm a newbie so if possible please explain in simple terms. hopefully the process is easy.I've had a look through this forum to see if I could find the answer first but I got confused so thanks in advance for your help.

[Baldrick]

If you have access to windows you can use subtitle creator to add subtitles to an existing dvd kinda easy, https://forum.videohelp.com/topic338721.html

I have no idea how to do it in mac.

[tomlee59]

Google is your friend.

See http://www.ffmpegx.com/dvd_sub.html

[kroc_kroc]

Thanks for the quick replies. I have now ordered the DVD as in the worst case scenario I can use ffmpegx. The thing that concerns me about ffmpegx is the fact that it always seems to output to a fixed size. Is there any software that will keep the video optimised? Because this is a Japanese release they are usually excellent quality (around 7GB) and I'd be a bit worried about compressing it down to 4.4GB. Please let me know if there's any other way?

[AlanHK]

Thanks for the quick replies. I have now ordered the DVD as in the worst case scenario I can use ffmpegx. The thing that concerns me about ffmpegx is the fact that it always seems to output to a fixed size. Is there any software that will keep the video optimised? Because this is a Japanese release they are usually excellent quality (around 7GB) and I'd be a bit worried about compressing it down to 4.4GB. Please let me know if there's any other way?

I can't tell you the applications to use on Mac, but what you want to do is to demux the DVD to MPEG (or M2V + audio), not to reencode as you seem to be talking about.
Than add your new subtitle and reauthor. There should be no degradation of the video or audio at all, this is lossless.

The page mentioned earlier, re ffmpegx, is referring to a generic video input, but in this case your video is already DVD compliant and does not to need to be changed at all.

[terryj]

Following AlanK's train of thought, this is rather simple to do
on the Mac using DVD Studio Pro.

Once you have the DVD's assets demuxed as AlanK said,
then you drag and drop these assets into DVD Studio Pro,
and then import your new subtitles ( created in Title Lab,
or Subtitler on the Mac) and then author the assets
ie mux) to a valid Video_TS folder, which you then burn
to a DVD-9 disc. (Dual Layer)

[jman98]

I've done what you propose under Windows and this method always works for me:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic275603.html
God help you with getting this done on a Mac. You have my sympathies. I have a Mac at work and while they are OK boxes, the problem is that you have no choice with software. You are lucky if you have even two programs that can do anything on a Mac with regards to video/audio stuff and if they don't work for you, you are out of luck. On Windows if a program A doesn't work for us, we can try Program B or C or even D and so on. You might consider buying Parallels or Fusion from VMware and installing Windows (assuming you have a new Intel based Mac - if not, forget this advice) and doing the work under Windows on the Mac.

[terryj]

jman98, your post strikes me as an uninformed rant.
*scratches head*
there are two scenarios pointed out on how to do
what the OP wants to accomplish on the mac,
and many of the same softwares needed ( ffmpeg(x), TitleLab)
exist on both platforms.

Your post, although using like 8 tools, works for you, great.
My posting only uses 4:

1. MTR, to rip the DVD to the HD
2. MpegStreamclip, to demux the .VOB files back to their elementary streams
3. TitleLab,or Subtilter, to create the subtitle files in .srt format
4. DVD Studio Pro to put it altogether, and author to disc.

No sympathy needed, easy as pie.

YMMV.

[kroc_kroc]

Thanks for everyones reply – especially terryj.

I'm sure I'll have to ask a few more questions when i get to the studio pro stage but it sounds like I'll be able to tackle this problem of mine.

[Mitchum22]

Not to jump on the technical aspects of the thread -- all great replies -- but if you use eMule, there are several very good .srt files already available in English.

Just put "Jisatsu" in the search engine. (No quotes, of course.)