delirium
17th January 2003, 20:58
i've tried searching the forums and looking at guides, but none of the above have answered my problems/questions. so, i was wondering if it is possible to have multiple color subtitles in maestro?
i'm backing up the dvd "record of lodoss war: chronicles of the heroic knight disc c" and using dvd2avi, tmpgenc, and maestro to shrink the video and then author. in the original movie, the subtitles for songs are in green and the regular subtitles for speech are in yellow, both of which have a black outline around them. So, using subrip i so far have been able to get either the green subtitles with black outlines or the yellow ones with a black outline, but not both at the same time, the other one would be a red blur instead. the closest i've gotten to getting the colors correct is with these subrip settings:
save as bmp format with timecodes
under the colors tab using the maestro setting:
0 Red (0)
3 Green (1)
1 Black (2)
2 Yellow (3)
(numbers in () were greyed out-not selectable)
when subrip writes the bmps, the song lyrics are in green with black outline and the speech is in yellow with black outline and the background is red. so this matches up with the original dvd. but when it is imported into maestro, the screen is covered in a black background and the subtitle outline has been made transparent. loading the palette and changing the transparency sliders did nothing to help get it to how the bmps look. how can i force or make maestro accept these settings (the two different color subtitles with outline and the red background be transparent)?
if not this, is there any other way to get the subtitles correct?
i'm at work right now, but i can post one of the bmps later this afternoon if it will help at all.
thanks in advance,
scott.
i'm backing up the dvd "record of lodoss war: chronicles of the heroic knight disc c" and using dvd2avi, tmpgenc, and maestro to shrink the video and then author. in the original movie, the subtitles for songs are in green and the regular subtitles for speech are in yellow, both of which have a black outline around them. So, using subrip i so far have been able to get either the green subtitles with black outlines or the yellow ones with a black outline, but not both at the same time, the other one would be a red blur instead. the closest i've gotten to getting the colors correct is with these subrip settings:
save as bmp format with timecodes
under the colors tab using the maestro setting:
0 Red (0)
3 Green (1)
1 Black (2)
2 Yellow (3)
(numbers in () were greyed out-not selectable)
when subrip writes the bmps, the song lyrics are in green with black outline and the speech is in yellow with black outline and the background is red. so this matches up with the original dvd. but when it is imported into maestro, the screen is covered in a black background and the subtitle outline has been made transparent. loading the palette and changing the transparency sliders did nothing to help get it to how the bmps look. how can i force or make maestro accept these settings (the two different color subtitles with outline and the red background be transparent)?
if not this, is there any other way to get the subtitles correct?
i'm at work right now, but i can post one of the bmps later this afternoon if it will help at all.
thanks in advance,
scott.