Subtitle Synchronisation Issue

[adw888]

First off I would just like to thank everyone involved in making AutoGK and the applications it uses for the fantastic job you've done; I remember the pre-GK days when DVD-to-DivX was a bit of a mission, now it's a breeze. :)

As the title suggests, I've got a little problem with the subtitles being out of sync with the video and audio. I'm using AutoGK 2.48b, and the source material is The Animatrix original DVD (part of the Ultimate Matrix Collection), which has been decrypted on my hard disk. I've set the "Use external subs" option as my player only supports text subtitles so I need to convert the IDX/SUB files to SRT afterwards. (So a related question I have is: is there a way to get AutoGK to run an OCR and generate the SRT itself during the conversion process?)

However my main problem is that the subtitles are all off by exactly -25.279 seconds (they are 25.279 seconds too early). I've found this by comparing the files (I've set it to split to 2CDs) AutoGK generates to one I've generated from the decrypted DVD using DVDSubEdit. So my main question is: is there any way to fix this?

Unfortunately I don't have the logs as I deleted them, but I can run the conversion again to get them if that would help. I can also compare some of the other DVDs in the set (I just had a quick look and it's -0.48 seconds off for Matrix Reloaded, so acceptable but not perfect).

Sorry if I've missed something obvious and thanks in advance for any help.

[albrecht]

Hi there,

I'm guessing you want to correct the timings of the idx/sub files, is that correct? If so, you probably want to use SubtitleCreater (current version is 2.2 if I'm not mistaken). Then go the the menu Tools > Manipulate Sup or Vobsub. There you can set a delay for the subtitles.

(If you want to change the timing of a srt-file, I'd recommand Subtitle Workshop).

AutoGK is not able to run an OCR. I believe there's no app out there that does an OCR automatically, you always have to type in the letters yourself. Subrip is my favorite app.

Hope it helped you!

Greets,
Albrecht

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@albrecht

Hi!I believe there's no app out there that does an OCR automatically, you always have to type in the letters yourself.In general terms, that's incorrect. From within DVDSubEdit, it takes only one click of a mousebutton and two minutes at the most to OCR an entire subtitle stream from a ripped DVD...

[albrecht]

@setarip_old
Wow, I had no idea.. Thanks for the recommendation, DVDSubEdit makes life easy! :)

@adw888
Sorry for the misleading information.. obviously it is possible to OCR automatically.. and you probably knew that too! :D Anyway.. at least my post helped ME out hehe...

Greets!
Albrecht

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@albrecht@setarip_old
Wow, I had no idea.. Thanks for the recommendation, DVDSubEdit makes life easy!You're quite welcome ;>}

[adw888]

Firstly thanks for the replies. :)

I already fixed the subtitles using Subtitle Workshop, but didn't make that clear in my first post. I was wondering if there was anything I could change in AutoGK so that I wouldn't have to correct the subtitles afterwards. Even if it's just a preview and manual correction before the conversion. But I suppose it's easy enough to fix manually.