question of subtitles

[dbernat32]

I am new to advanced dvd authoring.
I have a question about how a particular dvd was authored.
The DVD is "Brother" R1 by Sony Picture Classics.

The movie has primarily english dialogue. There is some japanese dialogue and accompanying translation subtitles. The translations are not embedded in the video (I checked). Here is the odd thing. There are three subtitle tracks: english, spanish, and french. Normally I would expect an additional english subtitle track. One for just translations subtitles, and the other with english dialogue and japanese translation. However, that is not the case with this DVD. It would seem the dvd has been authored to turn on the english subtitle track during a scene with japanese dialogue and then back off when the scene finishes. The program must check if any subtitle is enabled, doing nothing if yes. If no, performing the above operations.

I was wondering how I might be able to replicate the same feature using a program like Scenarist or DVDMaestro.

--David

[slk001]

You could probably do this with multiple angles, with the angle (the video would all be the same, except for hardcoded subtranslations) selected by the state of the subtitle subprogram selected. These would not be true subtitle substreams in this area.

I believe if you had some sort of command sequence at these points where the subtitles kick in, you would have a noticeable stuttering.

You can try extracting all of the subtitle streams and see if the translated parts are included. (I'm not sure if this would show up as a multiangle movie, unless you ripped it.)

Anyway, I believe that it can be done this way...