Resizing VobSUB from 4:3 to 16:9

[SeeChestlickRun]

Okay,

So I have this TV Show, 'House'. The first season is in 4:3 letterbox format. So I use MEgui to crop the bars, and resized it to 720x416 and used MKVMerge to correct it to 16:9. (It is encoded in .x264)

Only downside... the subtitle is squashed when I rip it out of VOBSUB, and I've been struggling to resize it to proper size.

I thought editing .idx would help, but apparently the video player doesn't follow the rule. What I tried is changing the 720x480 source to 720x358 (60 and 62 pixels was cropped, so I subtracted that from 480), then changed the origin to 0, -62.

Nothing worked.

Does any body out there have any idea? As in cropping VobSUB?? I'm lost at what to do next.

I've heard of hard subbing, but I don't want to do that...

Thanks for all of your help.

[manusse]

Hi,

The VobSub format is a graphical format (sub file). So you have two possibilities:

1°) You OCR your subs (use subrip or SubtitleCreator for that OR convert your sub/idx to Sup using SubtitleCreator and use DVDSubEdit). Then use SubtitleCreator to recreate a VobSub file that meets your needs (16:9 AR...) using the resulting srt file.

2°) Second solution, you convert your VobSub file to bitmaps, batch change their AR with an image manipulation program and then convert the resulting file to VobSub. (Use search and look at the stickies in this forum for detailed explanations).

Cheers
Manusse

[littleD]

If you use directshow based player, use Directvobsub for displaying subtitles with accurate size option at Main>>par compensation.

[SeeChestlickRun]

2°) Second solution, you convert your VobSub file to bitmaps, batch change their AR with an image manipulation program and then convert the resulting file to VobSub. (Use search and look at the stickies in this forum for detailed explanations).



That worked very well for me!

What I did:

1. SubRip - Save SubPictures As BMP and the text as Spruce DVDMaestro (*.son file). Make sure the Colors are set at 4 bits! No cropping, just set the minimum width/height to 720x480. Rip. When done, make sure you don't save the *.son as UniCode!! Save it as ANSI. Or else Son2VobSub wouldn't work.

2. IrfanView - After ripping the BMP, use the Batch Conversion in IrfanView, where you can crop all of the BMPs by 720 x 358. (Or whatever.)

3. Son2VobSub - Does what it say. Put down the *.son I generated in SubRip and pointed to the correct converted BMPs folder and voila.

Thanks for pushing me in right direction! :thanks: