How to hardcode 2 subtitles - on top and bottom of the video?

[dim4x4]

Hi guys!

Could you please suggest a program for Windows 7 to hardcode 2 subtitles - on top and bottom of the video? The top subs will come from srt file. The bottom from idx/sub.

If this same program would allow to put black strips on top and bottow of the movie for subtitles (so that subtitles do not cover the movie itself and are clearly visible white on black) that would be even better!

Thank you very much for your help!

[Budman1]

You don't mention what format you want the final result in but my favorite is Virtualdub that saves as an AVI in almost any format you have VFW encoders for. There is a good write up here https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/315058-HowTo-add-permanent-Letterboxed-subtitles-to...aldub-SRTtoSSA .

It will be very difficult to use 2 different subtitle types in any single program and get them to be placed at different places. It would be much easier to convert them to SSA or ASS and set the default formatting to place them where you wish. These subtitles work best for placing them where you want and how you want them (size, color, font, etc.)

The example explains also how to create the Black Letterbox borders you are looking for also.

[El Heggunte]

This is what I'd do, if I were you:

1) with the help from VSFilter, build a DirectShow graph in Graphstudio, save it, and create an appropriate Avisynth script for it;

2) open the AVS file in VirtualDub, and load the idx+sub through the VobSub function of VSfilter;

HTH.

[dim4x4]

Thank you very much, guys!

Sorry, my question was a bit misleading. Windows 7 is what I have on my desktop PC, but I want to watch the resulting movies on my Android smartphone. Because there aren't any video players for Android that support simultaneous dual subtitles, I need to hardcode at least one of the subs.

Input movie format can be either AVI or MP4. Same for output: AVI or MP4. I'm not very concerned about loss of video quality after hardcoding. Well, I am, but it's not critical.

My idea is to study Japanese by watching Japanese movies wherever and whenever I have an opportunity. So, I have now:
- Japanese movie in AVI with Japanese audio
- Japanese subtitles in IDX/SUB format (I want them on top)
- English subtitles in SRT format (I want them at the bottom)

I will try to combine those and see if any of the players on my Galaxy Note II can play it.

[videobruger]

You may do that with MediaCoder. You'll have to set the top position of your IDX/SUB aforehand. I made a 1 min clip in 1280x720 using a 2.35:1 movie with MediaCoder 8.17.5302 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b1S2HPmfkk

to illustrate it (The subtitles & movie is merely for illustration)

[dim4x4]

Tried to use VirtualDub as per tutorial. Everything worked OK (letterboxes, subtitles), BUT while original AVI was 700 MB the resulting AVI turned out to be 97 GB !!! What did I do wrong?

Will try MediaCoder tomorrow.

Thank you all guys for your help!

[manono]

What did I do wrong?

You didn't choose and configure a codec. Go Video->Compression, choose a codec and while configuring it also choose a bitrate (or do a 1-pass quality-based/quant-based encode). File size is dependent on the bitrate. A quality-based encode can be any bitrate needed to produce the quality you want.

[dim4x4]

It worked. Thanks, manono! Thank you all guys!

MediaCoder proved too complex for me.

Any way to put idx/sub subtitles on top, and srt/ssa on bottom?

[manono]

Any way to put idx/sub subtitles on top, and srt/ssa on bottom?

Sure. For the VobSubs, open the IDX in Notepad and adjust the positioning here (the boldfaced number adjusts the height):

# Settings

# Original frame size
size: 720x480

# Origin, relative to the upper-left corner, can be overloaded by aligment
org: 0, -360
# Image scaling (hor,ver), origin is at the upper-left corner or at the alignment coord (x, y)
scale: 100%, 100%

For the SSA, open it in Notepad and adjust the positioning (the boldfaced number adjusts the height):

[V4 Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, TertiaryColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, AlphaLevel, Encoding
Style: Style1,Tahoma,20,11842740,8421504,8421504,0,0,0,1, 2,0,2,20,20,20,0,0