How to creat a banner behind the subtitles?

[microlab1986]

hi
is there a program that can generate black banners behind the test of a subtitle (i had hard subbed video and i need to overwrite on the hard subs)

much appreciated in advance

[guns1inger]

avisynth's overlay command can do it. I suspect there is a similar filter for virtualdub as well.

[microlab1986]

thanks buddy
but isnt there a simpler way?
i have the subs in .srt and i dont want to hard sub them

[guns1inger]

SRT are straight text subs. They have no formatting. Each player and standalone has different settings, so you may find one that will put an opaque background behind them, but most won't. If you want the old subs gone, you will have to re-encode, whether you put hard subs in or not.

[microlab1986]

opaque background behind them?

why ofcourse i got it
thanks man you are a geniuse i will simply use subtitle worksop to convert them

oh my god it worked thanks man soooooo much