How to remove force subtitles

[Big Barn]

Hi I have a movie The Kite runner and the first 40 minutes of
the dvd is in Arab and the english subs are always on. I watch
it with french subs so it's a little busy.How can I remove it.
I removed all the subs with dvd remake pro but it's still there.

I think there is no way to remove those subpics because i installed
DVDSubEdit and it doesn't see it as subpics.
It's like it was shot with the movie.

[spyhawk]

If the English subs are hard-subbed, that means they are imprinted in the video. You can't do anything about it. The only way is move the French subs out of the way of the English subs so as not to obstruct them using DVDSubEdit.

[Big Barn]

Thanks you're right.

[r0lZ]

There is another method. You can use DVDSubEdit to modify the transparency and the color of the background of the french subs to translucent black, then place the french subs over the hard-subs so that they hide them.

Of course, if the french subs have a background covering the entire image, as it's often the case, you have to crop them. And to be sure that the french subs are large enough to cover entirely the hard-subs, you have to modify the cropping border size of DVDSubEdit. Currently, you need to edit its INI file. (The DvdSubEdit.ini file is located in your application data hidden folder.)
Example:

CropBackgroundBorderX=350
CropBackgroundBorderY=10

The values are in pixels. CropBackgroundBorderX is very high to define a rectangle that will always cover the whole width of the image, regardless of the width of the current subpic. This way, you are sure that the hard-sub is covered completely.

You might also have to retime some subpics so that they appear just before, and disappear just after the hard-sub.

I've used that trick several times, and it works very well.

[GrofLuigi]

You might also have to retime some subpics so that they appear just before, and disappear just after the hard-sub.

I've done this often and it's very hard (time-consuming) to do.

r0lZ, can there be two forced subs in a DVD at the same time (overlapping)? I was thinking of one subtitle with duration of the entire movie (black strip) to cover the hardcoded subs and another with normal subtitles in the desired language. The second doesn't need to be forced, but it would be nice if it is.

GL

[r0lZ]

No, it's impossible. Only one subpic can be shown at a time, forced or not.

[Big Barn]

Sorry late reply Iwas gone up north in the laurentide I live
in montreal Qc,anyway I found out there is 2 subpics in French
1 on top and 1 bottom so I'll use the top one. Iwonder why they do that there is also an other english subpics that
you can activate.

When I activate the bottom french subpics it's on top of the english hard-subbed.
I learned something new

[jeanl]

When I activate the bottom french subpics it's on top of the english hard-subbed.
I learned something new
Me too! Never heard of that before! A very high-tech way of being low-tech! :D :D
Jeanl

[Wombler]

Yeah that's weird.

Seems like a bit of an amateurish way of doing it.

I can't see the point in that at all.


Wombler

[mpucoder]

The first part of the movie itself is in Dari and subtitled in English - that is the way it appears in a theater. It appears that at one point offering the viewer a choice of subpicture locations was considered.