PAL sst. 2 NTSC

[rufman]

Hi you all,

Does anyone know how to change a sst. scenarist ready in PAL
to NTSC.
it seems that any of the common apps can't open sst.
so it will probebly need to be converted to some other format.
but how do I convert sst.
meny guides in the forum disscose how to convert to sst. but not from sst.

please help...

[dgoodbourn]

You can open .sst files in any text editor. You then need to change the settings at the of the file.

D.

[rufman]

thanks...
needed to use the tab and center every timecode and file name columns to the matched subject
so I can now open the sst. in subtitle workshop but I don't know how to convert the timecode to NTSC and save it as sst.

[DaRat]

The problem with SW is that it interprets the hh:mm:ss:ff format as hh:mm:ss.ss(s), so 00:01:01:10 (00:01:01:299 for ntsc) will result in 00:01:01.10, so your subs will be out of sync a bit but to make things worse after changing the fps of the sub (select input/output fps upper left) the times will be written in the hh:mm:ss.sss format and Scenarist will complain about this.

Only way-around this I can think of (unless u want to make a handy tool yourself :P) is to import subs to Scenarist, build a project, rip the subs to text format (like srt), open sst, get the timecodes from srt, convert it to ntsc, save as ssa, load up to maestrosbt and generate sst script, there you go. :D

[rufman]

thank you soo much.
I didn't subrip it as you said
I just converted the original sst. to ssa. with SW
and then did the NTSC convet with maestro
worked out great
again thank you so much
and thanks to the people at doom9 for having a wunderful scenarist forum

[DaRat]

YW but as I've said your subs will be a bit off (0.7 sec at worst case) but if this does not bother you I guess you're done.. :D

[rufman]

I guess you where right and I had to learn it in the hard way.
anyways I couldn't understand some of the stuff you wrote.
I got to the part of making a project and ripping it to srt. but then you wrote:

"open sst, get the timecodes from srt, convert it to ntsc, save as ssa"

what sst. to open?
how to get the timecode from srt.?
and in what s/w to convert to NTSC?
I already have a perfect PAL sst. that the timecode is synq to PAL

thanks