Mov conversion help?

[Timbo78]

I've done a search but can't find the answer I need, so I hope someone can assist me. I'll try to be as clear as I can and hope to explain it properly but please bear with me as I'm not very technically minded.

I had a couple of avi files a while ago of a foreign language movie, along with a subtitle file. I used Submerge on my Mac to join the avis and "paste" the subtitles into the film, thinking that I'd be able to export in a format suitable for burning to a DVD. But Submerge would only allow me to export a mov file. That wasn't a big problem at the time, I thought I could easily convert it when I was ready so I trashed the avi files. And then I came to convert this mov a few months later and I find I can't do it. What appears to have happened is Submerge has saved the subtitles as a second layer that runs simultaneous with the video, but nothing I've used, either on a Mac or my PC, will "see" both layers and produce a file I can convert to VOB that has the subtitles embedded. All the converters only see the main video and lose the subs.

I have tried MPEG Streamclip and Any Video Converter on the Mac (along with a couple of other programs I can't remember that I uninstalled) and also a couple of video converters on the PC. The PC won't even recognise the file as a playable mov, and I've updated QuickTime player. I downloaded a thing called QT-Flattener for the PC which was hopeless.

What I need to do is convert the file to MPEG or VOB on the Mac, with the second layer merged into the video so the subtitles are present, then I can burn it to a DVD and play it on my standalone player. But I don't seem to be able to do it. I don't have QT Pro to try to save the file as a self contained movie.

Can anyone help?

[Case]

In Submerge, don't use "Save as", use "Export to". Roughly the same export functionality as QuickTime Pro.
It won't give you VOBs right away, but the subs will be hardcoded and ready for conversion to DVD.

[Timbo78]

Thanks for the reply. That unfortunately didn't work too well. I could only convert to MP4 and the quality was absolutely lousy, so I've trashed it. Thanks for your help though.