DVD with Location Subtitles (Tomorrow Never Dies)

[minchjp]

Hi,
I am using virtual dub to encode Tomorrow Never Dies to DivX. As some of you may know, thay have forced subtitles that appier off the movie screan as regular subtitles. These are forced and can not be removed (using dvd programming)(Example below). My problem is, that when i preview them in vdub, the subtitles do not play. I think I need to rip the subtitles and make them perminent. My question is How do i rip these subtitles?

Thankx in advance, James

[SaSi]

If I understand correctly, you want to keep (with the movie), only the forced subtitles and not the rest of them.

If that's what you want, then with Subrip you can rip the subtitles into a VDUB compatible format, while selecting to rip forced subtitles only. This will generate a subtitle script and files of only a few subtitles.

Hope that's the problem you want to solve.

[minchjp]

Which formats are vdub compatible?

[SaSi]

There is a built in subtitler filter in VirtualDUB that accepts sub station Alpha .ssa subtitle streams. Subrip can save to this format (find it under Text formats in subrip).

Rip the subtitles with Subrip (you will need to do some OCR training to the program and it will save them in the SSA Script. Then add the subtitler filter to the processing in VDUB and select the file.

Have done this once (not with just forced subtitles) to move subtitles out of the letterbox area and be able to resize the movie. It works. Only point to pay attention is the OCR training. Subrip will ask you to confirm each character shape once. You must make it right.

[minchjp]

How do you choose forced subtitles only?

[minchjp]

Anyone???

[SaSi]

Hi there,

missed your previous posting and question. Assume your question is "how to select forced subtitles in SubRip?"

Start SubRip and select "Options" --> "Global Options" from the menu. In the form that comes up, check the second checkbox "Forced Subtitles Only".

Oh, and another point. In all this, I am assuming that the DVD you are processing has been "properly" authored, i.e. what subtitles should be "Foreced" are flagged as "Forced" when the DVD was authored. I've seen a couple that don't do that.

In such a case you, unfortunetelly, rip all the subtitles and delete the ones you don't need from the script. Then you are left with the few ones that should be forced and "burn" these only over the movie.

[minchjp]

Thankyou verry much!