Handbrake puts my subs too high

[Patapin]

High Bollywood fans,

How do you do?

Still creating karaoke files with Bolly clips...

I have extracted clips from my BR movie (Veer-Zaara), and am working on "Aisa des hai mera", using first aegisub to place my subs:

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Then I open the video clip with handbrake, and configure it like this:

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I import the subs created with aegisub, in order to burn them:

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and encode the film.

A few seconds later, I am very surprised to notice that the subs are now laying upon the images, and are no more in the bottom black stripe.

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Do you know what I am doing wrong, and what settings I must modify, please?

[ProWo]

Change the subtitle position in your subtitle file.

[Patapin]

Hello Prowo,

the position are already placed at the bottom of the screen:

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Do you think it is possible to move them directly with handbrake?

[ProWo]

I don't know handbrake, but to have the subtitle in the bottom black bar you must encoding the video WITH the black bars (letterboxed).

[Patapin]

The video is in the good format (1920x1080), just take a look at picture#1 and picture#9.
So I guess we must find something else.

Maybe someone who knows handbrake can answer me.

[G4yFr0g]

Hi, i have had the same problem as you.
Download the program subtitle edit.
open your srt file. In the top, choose .ass file. Then press the big red A icon.
Then change/lower the font size and position, export as .ass file and burn

[ProWo]

Post a mediainfo report(text mode) from your movie here

[ProWo]

Is the screen size of the subtitle set to 1920x1080?

[Patapin]

Hi G4yFr0g,

I'll download the latest version of S.E., mine is 3.4.

But my subs are already in ass format, with aegisub.
See you tomorrow.
have a nice day

[rrats]

Consider updating handbrake, this one's too old, it might be a problem that they've fixed in the update(s)

[Patapin]

Hello s-mp,
I work with Windows7, so I cannot update handbrake, sorry.

[Patapin]

Well, I used XmediaRecode, or VidCoder, both worked perfectly.
Still don't know what's wrong with my old handbrake version, but I'm thinking of buying a new PC with Windows10

[ls_milkyway]

Hi, i have had the same problem as you.
Download the program subtitle edit.
open your srt file. In the top, choose .ass file. Then press the big red A icon.
Then change/lower the font size and position, export as .ass file and burn

Correct ...for better control on formatting & position ...a better idea is to use SSA/ASS .....I guess the problem may be present due to handbrake settings to crop the video to remove black bars......it's better to crop & then position the subtitles.....usually that's what I do using staxrip, (gives a nice preview before encoding) when I wish to hard-code the subtitles.

[Patapin]

Hi!
Sorry for this late answe, due to an hospitalization. I am perfectly all right now.

Well, I found the solution, or may I say, I found the reason of the problem, it is the format of the ass subtitles created with aegisub: handbrake uses the "Default" format.
So what I did is:
1. mux the movies and the subs via mkvmerge
2. use this movie and these subs with handbrake or vidcoder.