Subtitle Help

[PrinceAli0]

Hi,

I'm lost here with setting burning in permenant subtitles in GKnot. I am ripping some of my anime dvds and I rip the whole dvd to one file. Then I use DVD2AVI to split up the episodes into .d2v projects that I load into GKnot like the guide says. I setup the video resolution and subs, save and encode with the subtitles box checked off and the .sub file loded for permenant subs and encode the first episode perfectly.

Now its onto the second and here is where my problem starts. I open the .d2v project, setup the video, configure the subtitles and then try to preview before I actually save the project. What is happening is I'm getting the subs for the fist episode again. So I go into configure in GKnot and set the delay in (ms) using the info on the .ac3 file that was demuxed through DVD2AVI. No matter what I set the delay to in GKnot I end up with the subs for the first episode. What am I doing wrong? Please help I've finally gotten decent at the video side but now the subs are driving me up a wall.

Thanks
PrinceAli0

[manono]

Hi-

Think about it for a minute-what's the Audio delay for the 2nd and 3rd episodes-200 or 300 milliseconds-.2 or .3 of a second? But the timing of the subs starts with the first episode. So you have to delay the whole first episode (what-24minutes or so). And it's actually a negative delay-you want to advance the subs. But even if you advance them the exact length of the first episode (for the 2nd episode), they're still probably not going to be in exact synch. You've stumbled across a very difficult problem.

I think what I'd do is not to split them with DVD2AVI, but make the .d2v of the whole series of episodes, add a Trim command to the end of the .avs so you encode each episode without having sub trouble, encode each separately, rejoin when done to add the Audio for them and then split again (or use the audio you already have, but you may have to mess with the delay with that if you haven't trimmed at the same place that you cut the episodes in DVD2AVI).

Alternatively, convert the subs to soft subs in .srt or .ssa format-then you can worry about synching them when all done.

But you can do it the way you first propose, but be prepared to reencode yet again if they don't turn out exactly in synch. There are some other choices also, but you've got enough to chew on for now.