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merlin001
18th January 2004, 22:44
Is there a way to find out why Scenarist won't encode a specific subtitle image (bmp)? I can get the subtitles loaded into the PGC, but when I go to encode (make VOB) with it, I get a:
Info Encoding subpicture .\Pilot2_0799.bmp
Error Can't open image file.[Subpicture Encoder]
It is indeed 799 that's missing in the cache, but I've looked over everything (sst timings & bmp files) and can't find any reason as to why it's not liking 799. I even went so far as to append 799 to 798, and it's still complaining.

3 lines from my .sst:
0798 00:42:34:18 00:42:35:12 Pilot2_0798.bmp
0799 00:42:35:12 00:42:36:20 Pilot2_0799.bmp
0800 00:42:36:20 00:42:38:00 Pilot2_0800.bmp

Any ideas?
Thanks!
David

merlin001
19th January 2004, 05:02
Originally posted by merlin001
Is there a way to find out why Scenarist won't encode a specific subtitle image (bmp)? I can get the subtitles loaded into the PGC, but when I go to encode (make VOB) with it, I get a:
Info Encoding subpicture .\Pilot2_0799.bmp
Error Can't open image file.[Subpicture Encoder]
It is indeed 799 that's missing in the cache, but I've looked over everything (sst timings & bmp files) and can't find any reason as to why it's not liking 799. I even went so far as to append 799 to 798, and it's still complaining.

3 lines from my .sst:
0798 00:42:34:18 00:42:35:12 Pilot2_0798.bmp
0799 00:42:35:12 00:42:36:20 Pilot2_0799.bmp
0800 00:42:36:20 00:42:38:00 Pilot2_0800.bmp

Any ideas?
Thanks!
David

Ok, Update. It works now, and I don't know what this change fixed. What I changed was this:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:42:34.60,0:42:35.28,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,I never know
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:42:35.28,0:42:36.66,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,when you're home or not.

to this:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:42:34.60,0:42:36.66,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,I never know when you're home or not.

That fixed it. Any insight as to why?

~ David

screw
21st January 2004, 11:35
I had the same problem, when 4-bit bitmaps were used (for some unknown reason Scenarist almost every movie was rejecting 1 or 2 BMP files). Workaround was to open those files in Paintbrush, edit one pixel and save.
But afterwards I realised, that this never happens, if 8-bit bitmap is used (I am using MaestroSBT to generate BMP from text file and there you can choose which bitmap format you are using).

Screw