Maestro and Subtitles problem

[bastioned]

The problem is the following: I have followed to the letter the guides on how to extract subtitles with SubRip from a DVD and then import them into Maestro. Honestly I think it must not be that difficult, but I´m having some wierd problems: when I import the .son file into Maestro, it loads the bunch of subs, no problem here. But when I actually edit any of then, I see that it hasn´t really extracted the BMP , but it is displaying the filename as the sub; for example:

subs0001.bmp - subs0xxx.bmp

subtitle index file subs.son

import to Maestro: ok

first sub: text: subs0001.bmp instead of the content of the file

Any help ?

[bastioned]

Any help guys?

[Bruce Leroy]

Have you tried looking at any of the subs with photoshop or any image viewing too?.... if you see the sub-title name instead of the actual subtitles than you have a problem in subrip...

If you see the actual subtitle, then perhaps you didn't save the .son file in the correct directory (has to be saved in same folder as all the images).

[bastioned]

The son file is in the same location as the sub files themselves. And I can open the sub files into Paintbrush and see the image with no problem. And Maestro doesn´t scream at me when importing the son file... so everything should be working but it isn´t

[Bruce Leroy]

Strange... I've never heard of that before. My only suggestion is to run subrip again and make sure that all of the settings are set to maestro.

Which movie is it for?

[bastioned]

I have tried with three of four, like The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars Episode 2, Harry Potter, Black Hawk Down, etc , all of the show the same problem , so I don´t think it is movie related... I am completely lost here

[FamousPerson]

2 questions:

1. When you see the filename, is it positioned just like a subtitle would be? Or is it small and in a corner or something?

2. Just to clarify, you say you see the image no prob in paintbrush. So you mean you see the actual subtitle text on black, positioned properly, etc?

[McPoodle]

There's two different subtitle types for Maestro: .stl for text subtitles, and .son for graphic subtitles. When you open the .son file in Notepad, does it start with "st_format 2" and end with a bunch of lines like "0074 00:01:15:10 00:01:17:23 subs0074.bmp"? Or does it start with "$FontName = Arial" and end with lines like "00:01:15:10, 00:01:17:23, subs0074.bmp"? The first is what a .son file is supposed to look like, while the second is what a .stl is supposed to look like. If you've got the wrong format, change the beginning of the file to look like this:


st_format 2
Display_Start non_forced
TV_Type NTSC
Tape_Type NON_DROP
Pixel_Area (0 477)
Directory .

SP_NUMBER START END FILE_NAME
0001 00:01:17:00 00:01:19:05 subs0001.bmp


For PAL, change TV_Type to PAL, remove the Tape_Type line, and change Pixel_Area to (0 573).

That last line is to show how the rest of the .son file should be formatted: global replace all commas with spaces, then insert the counter number at the start of each line.

[bastioned]

@FamousPerson, it is indeed positioned like it was a subtitle, but the text displayed is the filename, not the file content.

@McPoodle, I think you´re in the good path, I´ll try adding the header you provided and will tell ya the result tomorrow.

Thanx to all for your help

[bastioned]

Woa it has been for a while since I didn´t show up in this forums, just wanted to tell ya that the problem was solved by adding the header that McPoodle supplied , so I wanted to thank him and everybody for the help provided. Thanx guys!!