Adding new subtitles to DVD keeping Menus in 2016

[veggav]

I know there are a few guides using old tools, which sometimes don't work with newer editions of windows, and I would like to ask.

Is there any newer or easier method to add subtitles to DVDs today?
Adding subtitles to blu-rays is such an easy task, it would be great if adding subtitles to DVD would be easy too.

So, anyone can point me out a method to do this? The easy way?

[Ghitulescu]

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[veggav]

Nothing happened ...

So the easiest method still is: PGCDemux, Muxman, Subtitlework Shop and VobBlanker?

[GMJCZP]

Your main problem is maintain the menu.
Ideally, you had the original project of author of dvdlab pro, dvd architect , etc.
A tool that you could also use (it is, also is old but few programs that handle idx and sub) is Subtitle Creator.

[Music Fan]

So the easiest method still is: PGCDemux, Muxman, Subtitlework Shop and VobBlanker?
No, the easiest method is with DvdSubEdit, it keeps menus and there is no need for demultiplexing, very easy.

edit : actually I don't remember if DvdSubEdit can add any subtitle track or only modify an existing subtitle track.

[Sir Didymus]

No, DvdSubEdit can not do this. The remuxing stage can not be avoided. Reauthoring the DVD entirely, possibly with MuxMan and based on the assets demuxed from the original tracks + the new subtitle track, is the way to go... That's "the easy way"... :o

[Music Fan]

If DvdSubEdit can not do this, then veggav's method is the simplest I believe (anyway VobBlanker has to be used to keep menus and replace only the modified title).

But I wonder if another trick would not be possible with DvdSubEdit : if it can not open an external sub, and if the original dvd has a subtitle track that you don't need, you can maybe modify the whole subtitle track, which corresponds to a replacement.

[Ghitulescu]

SubtittleCreator (http://subtitlecreator.sourceforge.net/SubtitleCreatorHomepage.html)is the easiest method of doing this - one step only (if the subtitles are perfect).

[Sir Didymus]

@Music Fan.
Naaa... :)
This way is a nightmare... You have to edit the single bmps, times, etc. of the subs one by one... Not feasible...

@Ghitulescu.
Naaaaaaa... :rolleyes:

Have you ever tried the "DVD Wizard" function of SC?
I did, and the used process chain and tools are apparently all right. Nevertheless I have never been able to build one single compilation out of it...
Maybe it's my fault, and I don't know why, but it failed. Always. That's my experience. With a manual procedure, at least all the steps and the assets are known and in your hands, letting you to make fixing and adaptations werever needed...