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merlin001
15th January 2004, 02:46
Ok, I've created the subtitles from scratch in Subtitle Workshop, brought them over to MaestroSBT, and now I'm having problems creating ones that work with my DVD. I want basic white text. That's all. I tried using the "Only one set of text" option with White as the primary text color and black for the other three. I created the bitmaps, and brought them into Scenarist. I've built the DVD and when the subtitles are on, it's a red background and green text. The biggest problem is, the red takes up the entire screen, except for the subtitle text.

Any suggestions? I just want crisp, clean white text on the bottom of the screen.

oddyseus
15th January 2004, 18:21
well Merlin,

I will go over some elementary things about subs coding. I hope that I am not repeating things u allready know.

Each subttile has only 4 colors. Black, Red, Blue, White.
Corresponding these 4 primary colors to a palette user can display any color he wants from a palette of 16 colors.
U can see this clearly in u insert the subtitles in a track, select it and going to the simulation window.
To the bottom part u will see 5 tabs, the last one named Subpicture and Highlight.
Select the option Colors, just below it.
U can see the 4 Primary colors and the current correspondance.
Suppose your subpictures have red background, black stroke and blue letters.
The second primary color is Red. This is used for the background.
Across it there is a percentage that displays a number in.
0% is trasparent - 100% is opaque.
We need 0% as the background shouldn't be visible at all.
Make this 0%.
Hit the encode button. 2nd from the right, top floating palette, left of the PC button.
The background, if it was cluttering the movie should be gone.
Now on to define the color for the text.
The Primary used is blue, so we r interested in the 3d one.
Obviously we want opaque text so the opacity should be 100%. Change it.
Now click on the color swatch that has the opacity on.
It should reveal the 16 color palette.
Suppose that u want the text white. Locate the white swatch.
In the default color palette, Scenarist has it on position 4. Mark this number.
Positions r countered left to right, top to bottom. So the 2nd from the left, 2nd row should be color 6.
Hit encode again. The text is opaque white now.
Now on we go for the stroke
If u don;'t want any change the opacity to 0%. If u want u can select the color from the palette.
Now its time to take a note about the opacities and color numbers.
Primary 1, black hasn't changed at all, so we leave it as is.
Primary 2, red has changed opacity to 0%
Primary 3, Blue has changed color to 4
Primary 4, White hasn't changed at all.
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Now open up the sst file with notepad
Locate the Contrast line and changed the second value to 0. This will make background transparent.
Locate the color line
Change the 3d number to 4. This is for white text. The actual number here depends on the position of the white swatch according to your palette.
Save the sst file and Re-Import the subs in Scenarist
U r done.

Pls report back.

merlin001
16th January 2004, 00:14
Ok, everything works great until I try to mutiplex the track. It then bombs and I get a nice little:
...
Info Encoding subpicture ".\Pilot1_0370.bmp"
Error Can't open image file.[Subpicture Encoder]
Info Encoding subpicture ".\Pilot1_0371.bmp"
...
Error Cannot open subpicture file (C:\My Scenarios\Pilot1 Cache\Encoded Files\Pilot1_0370.sp)
Error dvd_mux : DoMux Multiplexing Error
Error Terminated Multiplexing (Pilot, Pilot1-t_t.vob).
Error Can't open read stream file. Please check the permission.


Ok, the files not there, but I've got the bitmap there. I've opened the .sst file and these are the surrounding lines:
0365 00:21:01:28 00:21:03:18 Pilot1_0365.bmp
0366 00:21:03:19 00:21:04:29 Pilot1_0366.bmp
0367 00:21:04:30 00:21:06:09 Pilot1_0367.bmp
0368 00:21:06:10 00:21:09:09 Pilot1_0368.bmp
0369 00:21:11:22 00:21:14:09 Pilot1_0369.bmp
0370 00:21:19:29 00:21:21:12 Pilot1_0370.bmp
0371 00:21:23:07 00:21:24:29 Pilot1_0371.bmp
0372 00:21:27:07 00:21:28:19 Pilot1_0372.bmp
0373 00:21:29:18 00:21:32:20 Pilot1_0373.bmp
0374 00:21:32:20 00:21:34:10 Pilot1_0374.bmp

I checked for overlapping times and such...nothing. I'm lost (again).

Thanks
~ David

merlin001
16th January 2004, 00:53
Originally posted by merlin001
Ok, everything works great until I try to mutiplex the track. It then bombs and I get a nice little:
...
Info Encoding subpicture ".\Pilot1_0370.bmp"
Error Can't open image file.[Subpicture Encoder]
Info Encoding subpicture ".\Pilot1_0371.bmp"
...
Error Cannot open subpicture file (C:\My Scenarios\Pilot1 Cache\Encoded Files\Pilot1_0370.sp)
Error dvd_mux : DoMux Multiplexing Error
Error Terminated Multiplexing (Pilot, Pilot1-t_t.vob).
Error Can't open read stream file. Please check the permission.


Ok, the files not there, but I've got the bitmap there. I've opened the .sst file and these are the surrounding lines:
0365 00:21:01:28 00:21:03:18 Pilot1_0365.bmp
0366 00:21:03:19 00:21:04:29 Pilot1_0366.bmp
0367 00:21:04:30 00:21:06:09 Pilot1_0367.bmp
0368 00:21:06:10 00:21:09:09 Pilot1_0368.bmp
0369 00:21:11:22 00:21:14:09 Pilot1_0369.bmp
0370 00:21:19:29 00:21:21:12 Pilot1_0370.bmp
0371 00:21:23:07 00:21:24:29 Pilot1_0371.bmp
0372 00:21:27:07 00:21:28:19 Pilot1_0372.bmp
0373 00:21:29:18 00:21:32:20 Pilot1_0373.bmp
0374 00:21:32:20 00:21:34:10 Pilot1_0374.bmp

I checked for overlapping times and such...nothing. I'm lost (again).

Thanks
~ David


Ok, what I found was a ; that kept scenarist from importing 370. I pulled out the ; and everything is happy.