Very Interesting Problem(subs and HHR)

[amirkhan]

Hi,

I have a unique problem that I guess a lot of you wont be seeing. I capture Half D1 AVI (352x576) and convert this to MPEG2 for DVD creation. I use AVISynth to add subtitles to the video. The problem is that the DVD player will (correctly) resize the video so that it looks more like 352x288 (correct aspect ratio).

The problem is that I added subtitles via avisynth and now they look squashed. Is there a way to tell avisynth to make the text X2 taller than wide?

Regards

Amir

[whosithis]

Could you add subs to a separate clip at 720x480, squash it and then overlay on top of your squashed video?

[amirkhan]

Originally posted by whosithis
Could you add subs to a separate clip at 720x480, squash it and then overlay on top of your squashed video?

I think Avisynth has a way to select fields from two different movies and merge right?, I guess that could be one solution, sounds painful though! ;-(

[ppera2]

Not easy, but perfect and fast way would be that you design special 'tall' font for that purpose.
I needed to make special Central European system font, because subtitler plugin don't support it, so it's possible certainly.
And you need to make it only once...

[dividee]

You can do this using gabest's vobsub package:
Convert your subtitles to ass (Advanced SSA) format with subresync. Open the .ass file in a text editor and change the "ScaleY" parameter in the [V4+ Styles] section to 200 (that's in %; it's the 13th parameter from the "Style:" line).
Then use the TextSub filter in avisynth.

[amirkhan]

thanks for the ideas, sorry about the late reply, forgot about this post! ;-)

Oh and SPECIAL thanks to dividee as that idea sounds perfect.