Capturing from VHS and subtitles

[Haopengyou]

Is there some way when capturing from VHS and converting to DVD that I can save the subtitles as a separate track?

[filmboss80]

Any subtitles on a VHS tape would be as permanently embedded as the people and scenery in the movie. The subs are part of the picture and cannot be separated.

If you are talking about adding subtitles to a DVD recording made from an un-subtitled VHS, then you would need to reauthor the DVD to include a subtitle stream.

[SatStorm]

You have to learn how to extract the subs from the captured tape. It's like extracting hardsubs from Anime. Needs OCR methods, much effort and time.

Then, you have to delete the titles from the captured tape. There is no good way to do this. MSU tried it with their subtitle remove filter, but they halt the project.

In other words, you can't do what you had in mind. You can find a raw (without subs) and use your extracted subs (if you learn how), but this is not easy too (raw source and your tape must match). Also, you have to buy the raw source, which could be impossible or expensive.