Writing Subtitles for DVD

[mattr]

Hi. I have some home video of a visit from my great aunty from Italy from a couple of years ago that i am trying to burn to a dvd to send to them in Italy. The problem is that half of the dialogue in the video is in english and the great aunt in question can't speak italian, which means that i have to write subtitles for the video. What I would like to know is how i can write the subtitles, and put the subtitles onto a dvd with the video. How do i go about doing this?

[terryj]

Use TitleLab or Jubler to write the subtitles.

Either will allow you to open a copy of the film
and as it plays, create the necessary subtitles.
When done, you export the subtitles as STL files,
and then author the movie and Subtitles to a DVD
using DVD Studio Pro.

[mattr]

is there anything cheaper than dvd studio pro that can do the same job? I can't afford final cut studio, and i'm not considering adobe encore anymore as it's now combined with premiere pro which i don't really like.

[Herve]

personnaly I use Miyu to create subtitles (and export it to .srt)

after use a soft that use .srt to add subtitles to your original mpeg2 stream (MovieGate, ffmpegX, mine, etc)
you could not use iDVD for this purpose (it does not handle subtitles)

resulting price: not expensive
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