Red Subtitles in Maestro

[majagua]

I have ripped all my subtitles with SubRip with the Maestro templated and saved the .son file. I imported the files in maestro, but when i preview the final project, the subtitles are red and with a frame surrounding them. How can I change the color to white or yellow, a normal subtitle color?????


| hello there. |

My subtitles appear like the sample above. Like with two pipes on both extremes, and the text in between.

[slk001]

Try changing the color mapping of the subtitles (just click on the first one). Don't know about the pipes - probably an artifact from a conversion somewhere.

[majagua]

How can I change all the subtitles attributes?

I clicked on the first subtitle, changed the color mapping, but it only changed the colors on the subtitle I selected, not all of them.

How can I apply changes to all of them????

How can I remove those pipes?

Can you help me!

[fletch]

When you first import your subtitle file and check them, you will see the colors are not what you set in SubRip. SubRip created a new pallete file for you to correct this. In Maestro's subtitle editor, click "Edit Pallete..." then click the "Load" button. You will see an additional file that SubRip created that is *.spf. Load this up and your colors will be correct now.

[oddyseus]

or u can edit the son file with note pad and study its structure. u can change the colors globally from there too.

I think that ne1 should study the insides of DVD cause if you understand the structure everything is much simpler.

[majagua]

hey fletch, I have not found the option you are talking about

Edit Palette???

Do i have to double click a subtitle to get access to this option or do i have to access it from the edit menu?

I haven't been able to find the option!

Help!!!

[fletch]

What version of SubRip did you use ? Only the newer versions (V1.02 onwards ?) create *.spf.
Yes, you need to double click on a subtitle to get access to this option.

[majagua]

I use SubRip 1.02

I still double click on any subtitle (the first usually), change the colors, and there is no effect on the resulting subtitles.

How can I make this work?

I feel dumb.

[ulfschack]

Just do what Odysseus suggests (at least for the colors). I don't have enough time to fully understand what does what, but after editing the .son file a couple of times I got nice white ones.

Here's an extract.


...
st_format 2
Display_Start non_forced
TV_Type PAL
Tape_Type NON_DROP
Pixel_Area (0 573)
Directory .
Subtitle puh
Display_Area (0 2 719 575)
Contrast (15 0 0 0)

SP_NUMBER START END FILE_NAME
Color (15 15 0 0)
Contrast (15 15 0 15)
...


try it.

Cheers

[The Incredible Bulk]

Ok after a bit of messing about I got Whit subs, what you need to do is in SUB rip set your subs (In the maestro setting) to :

-0 BACKGROUND ----> BLACK 0
-2 FONT ----------> BLACK 1
-1 OUTLINE -------> BLUE 2
-3 ANTIALIASING --> BLACK 3

This worked for me you only get the FONT up but at least its whit i'll try and sort out the OUTLINE and ANTIALIASING later but it pretty late now so i'm gonna sleep.

Cheers

The Incredible Bulk

[The Incredible Bulk]

OK Had a little time B4 sleeping and tryed this out:

-0 BACKGROUND ----> BLACK 0
-2 FONT ----------> GREEN 1
-1 OUTLINE -------> BLUE 2
-3 ANTIALIASING --> YELLOW 3

This setting gives you a white font with a nic Black outlie/antialising so you can see your sub over a lighter parts of the movie hope it helps you out

Cheers

The Incredible Bulk

Now I'm gonna sleep:)

[majagua]

I'll try, Incredible, Thanks!