Chetwood
9th December 2003, 19:09
Since I finally managed to import my selfmade movies into Maestro I'm currently working on importing my own subtitles. I've timed them from .wav in Substation Alpha and now I wanna use MaestroSBT 2.4.2.0 to generate .son and bitmap files.
From all the original DVDs I own I prefer the subtitles that come with the DS9 series since they can be read well from a distance even on smaller TVs. Thus I extracted some bitmaps from an ep and tried to mimic those settings in MaestroSBT. Unfortunately this is where I'm stuck.
As you can see if you download and zoom in on this small screenshot (http://chetwood.netfirms.com/subs.html) the subs start from the inside with white - black - blue and are placed on a red background. So in Maestro I choose Windows BMP 4 bits as the output format and under 'rendering' I select:
Two colours for text, one for outline, no antialias (absolutely no clue if this is correct!)
primary text color: white
anti-alias/secondary text color: black
outline/tertiary text color: blue
background: red
I've tried almost any combination of these settings but none of them achieved the result I'm aiming at. Like always I'm not sure if I'm getting the whole idea of color mapping. For one, I'm not sure why I can also set different colors in the styles menu; is this the final font that will be displayed in the movie due to color mapping? Cause the font visible in DS9 episodes is white text with a grey outline and not in those colors the bitmaps consist of.
Any suggestions on how to get the subtitle colors I want? TIA!
From all the original DVDs I own I prefer the subtitles that come with the DS9 series since they can be read well from a distance even on smaller TVs. Thus I extracted some bitmaps from an ep and tried to mimic those settings in MaestroSBT. Unfortunately this is where I'm stuck.
As you can see if you download and zoom in on this small screenshot (http://chetwood.netfirms.com/subs.html) the subs start from the inside with white - black - blue and are placed on a red background. So in Maestro I choose Windows BMP 4 bits as the output format and under 'rendering' I select:
Two colours for text, one for outline, no antialias (absolutely no clue if this is correct!)
primary text color: white
anti-alias/secondary text color: black
outline/tertiary text color: blue
background: red
I've tried almost any combination of these settings but none of them achieved the result I'm aiming at. Like always I'm not sure if I'm getting the whole idea of color mapping. For one, I'm not sure why I can also set different colors in the styles menu; is this the final font that will be displayed in the movie due to color mapping? Cause the font visible in DS9 episodes is white text with a grey outline and not in those colors the bitmaps consist of.
Any suggestions on how to get the subtitle colors I want? TIA!