Newbie question - Creating subtitles from scratch

[Edda]

Hi there, newbie here

I've aquired the entire X-files DVD sets (9 seasons, over 200 episodes) which has a lot of nice, clear and crisp subtitles in various languages. Imagine my surprise when i couldn't find the nordic (swedish, finnish, danish and swedish) langauges represented. I'm swedish and of course I can watch films without swedish subtitles, but since I'm a hardcore fan of the x-files, I'd like to have subtitles for this series. It also has a lot of technical terms that need to be translated.

So, I tried translating them in subtitle workshop (Urusoft), then sync them in Subsync and finally burn them in Vobsub, I think. (It might have been Virtualdub though, I can't remember). It works, but it takes a godawful while (2 days for me to translate a 40 minutes episode + adjust the time frame) . This show has over 200 episodes and I'll be an old woman if I continue this til I'm done. There are 2 things that makes it complicated for me:

- Translation
- The time adjusting and placing the subtitles in sync with the audio (I've noticed that if i don't do this in subtitle workshop, the subtitles will be all over the place), which takes a lot longer time than the translation.

Is there any easier way for me or will I just have to forget about it? When I'm done I'll simply just burn them onto DVD+R's because I can't be arsed to do anything fancy with them. So I just need to know an easier way to create these subtitles from scratch.

Sorry about the long post and my crappy english, but I hope you get the picture. Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.

[manusse]

Hi Edda,

If you want to create your subs in synch with the audio, you could try this software:
http://visualsubsync.corecodec.org/
I didn't personaly use it but it looks great.

Otherwise, there is another way with SubtitleCreator:
1°) Extract one original SUP file of one language that you understand (pgcdemux)
2°) Use the new "Tools -> Translate SUP to SRT" function of SubtitleCreator 2.0.0 or later.
It will allow you to create a SRT file using the time codes of the original SUP (bitmap) file.

To recreate the DVD with your new subs, you can try to use the DVD authoring wizard of SubtitleCreator but it is still experimental.

Manusse

[Edda]

WHOA that program rocks! I first didn't really get how this was suppose to save me time, but the wav-track is really helping (I can actually see when someone is saying something, mark it and translate it, instead of trying to hear it). I can totally recommend it. Thanks for the help, manusse!