subtitles using DVD Slideshow GUI

[phoenix777]

I need to place subtitles where I want. Will GUI do it? Is there a plugin that I can add to it?

[tin2tin]

I need to place subtitles where I want. Will GUI do it?

Yes. Use the style tags. However I've just noticed that the word 'POS' shouldn't be in caps.


To read up on what can be done with style tags - read up on it here:
http://docs.aegisub.org/manual/ASS_Tags

[RichU]

This generates a couple questions . . . In playing around with DVDSGUI I find that I want the caption more lower left (actually just lower would be enough) than the existing style tag. I used Position and trial-and-errored the numbers and "improved" the location.

Do I have to do it for each slide? I tried selecting a few at once. I could get POSITION to affect the group selected, but only if I left it as is. If I edited the x,y numbers, they either affected only the slide showing, or it took that caption and applied it to all the slides.

Am I doing it wrong? Is there a way to adjust the location for multiple slides? It seems like I cannot "make a custom style tag;" it has to already be in the program. Correct?

[RichU]

I'll take another tack re: subtitles. DVDSGUI doesn't import them correctly . . . Is there a numerical limit on adding captions?

Subtitles were entered using Picasa, Google's photo management program. I've looked at the photo info using Irfanview, and it shows the info as Cation in the IPTC info. This seems correct.

When I realized I could use DVDSGUI without re-doing the info I promptly imported the captions. But only some of them were right - at some point DVDSGUI started reusing the captions for later slides. Mostly when there were blank captions, but then even those with captions got pushed back. I did not check for exact order, but my impression was that it wasn't just skipping a couple slides - it was multiple repetitions of multiple captions.

My S/S was huge - over 800 slides. So I started over with maybe 100. Added slides. Used Slide Settings to add Captions. Some were fine, then they got confused. Started over, and did the captions when importing slides. Same kind of errors. I added captions to "all" slides from the beginning, which I really didn't want to do. Even tried just putting in a space, to get an "invisible" caption. It still got out of sync. Tried many times, closing the program, starting over, import with slide, do caption later, and nothing gives correct captions on correct slides through the whole slideshow.

Just did another test. 50 slides added. Then, using slide settings, added Captions. First 25 were fine, and I had added captions for all of them - no blanks. #25 is a long one, and I may change it or remove it as a test, later. But #25's caption was duplicated 12 times, so there are 13 instances. Then slide 38 has the proper caption. It then repeats 7 times, and the next slide has the proper caption. But then #38's appears again for 3 slides, before another correct caption appears.

It is so close! How frustrating!

Suggestions? I'll do some more testing, but maybe the number of slides is the problem. Or maybe it is the long caption that screws up the system

[RichU]

Further testing reveals:
25 slides seems to be the limit for Captions. More than that and they repeat/get stuck.
Blank captions are problems - they usually?always get the caption just prior.
Captions stick in DVDSGUI's memory. Seems I have to exit and open the project again. Bummer with many slides. If not done, erroneous captions get put on new imports.

[RichU]

More data:

More than 25, such as 100, actually seem to import "OK."

BUT, having slides with blank captions really screws it up. Captions get repeated to fill blanks, often after encountering a different caption, but also at times writing over the proper caption.

May be more time efficient just to re-enter the captions . . . .

[RichU]

Update: the number of slides imported, or info added later, doesn't seem to matter. But blank ones throw off DVDSGUI, for sure. Other captions get substituted and it can throw off the order, with repeats occurring later.

Second," having quotes("") in Captions results in failed slide shows. Don't use them - they yield something like "I don't understand "quoted word" when doing a preview.