Subtitle for existing palette? (DVD)

[LogicDeLuxe]

I use spumux in order to create a subtitle stream from a text source using a true type font.
However, I need to have it along with existing subtitle streams and therfore use the existing palette, which looks quite ugly, so I want to use different colors, ie. I want color 1 to be color 4 in particular.

Is there any way to tell spumux to use color 4 instead of color 1? Or is there a way to change the subtitle graphics afterwards?

[manusse]

Hi LogicDeLuxe,
If you make a DVD, you can use DVDSubEdit to change the palette afterwards.
Manusse

[LogicDeLuxe]

Changing the palette is no option. I thought this would be pretty obvious from my post.

[manusse]

I think you can also change the color per subtitle within the original palette.
Just give it a try.

Manusse

[CoNS]

LogicDeLuxe, manusse is right. You should be able to do it by using the original colour palette when muxing/authoring the new DVD and then use DVDSubEdit to change the colours afterwards.

The palette consists of 16 colours and each subpic uses only four of these. Most likely the original subtitles use the same four colour entries for all subpics.

You may be lucky that those four colour entries are not the same as the subtitles created by spumux. Let's say for example that the original subtitles use colour entries 7, 9, 10 and 14, and your home made subtitles use colour entries 0, 1, 2 and 3. In that case it's very easy to change the colours of colour entries 0, 1, 2 and 3 using DVDSubEdit (or PgcEdit, SupRemap or IfoEdit).

If there's an overlap (both the original subtitles and your home made subtitles use the same colour entries), you'll have to change the colour assignment for your new subtitle stream. DVDSubEdit is the tool to use for this. And if the palette doesn't already contain the colours you want, you'd have to combine this with changing some of the colours, too, as described above.

There's a link in my signature below to a guide on how to do it with DVDSubEdit...

[LogicDeLuxe]

Thanks, DVDSubEdit solved the problem.