Importing subtitles into DVD Architect 4.0

[hurricane1951]

I can import TEXT files as subtitles into DVD Architect just fine, but it doesn't seem to recognize anything after the first line of text. The text file looks just fine, and what DVDA does import also looks fine. The manual offers absolutely no help (big surprise).

Anyone seen this problem before and solved it?

[Lippy Lipstick]

Hi Hurricane,

Seems you try to import the text in the wrong format.
Check out this topic: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic348374.html.

For linebreaks use

, text has to be Unicode and be sure the text
is saved in Unicode. Change .txt into .sub and import it into DVDA.

Hope this'll work.

[hurricane1951]

Hi Lippy,

I saw your previous post, but that doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using SubRip, and the only way DVDA accepts the subtitle file is to rip it to TXT format, then load it into Word and save it as a Unicode text file. DVDA is happy with that but it won't display anything but the first line.

I've gotten around it for now by simply putting all the subtitles on one line, but now I'd like to puzzle this one out. If I could extract it in "DVD Architect Subtitle Script" format, I'm sure I could load it, but that's not one of the options in SubRip and the other sub files apparently are different enough to make them incompatible.

[Lippy Lipstick]

Hi Hurricane,

The DVDA-subtitle format looks like this:

0001<Tab>00:00:01:00<Tab>00:00:02:00<Tab>This is a single line.<Hrt>
<Hrt>
0002<Tab>00:00:02:04<Tab>00:00:04:00<Tab>This is an example<Hrt>
of two lines in a subtitle<Hrt>
<Hrt>
0003<Tab>00:00:04:04<Tab>00:00:06:00<Tab>This third subtitle<Hrt>
also has two line<Hrt>

The trick is to do some 'search and replace' in Word to change the SRT lay out into the DVDA subtitle lay out (the Word-code for <Hrt> is '^p' and the code for <Tab> is '^t'). If you manage this, make sure you save it as Unicode test with the extention .SUB and choose 'only CR' for linebreaks. Import it into DVDA as a "DVD Archtect Subtitle Script".

Hope this'll give you a second line!

LL