Ripping subtitles exact

[dvd_master]

Ok, I got a movie that has Chinese subtitles on it. I want to keep them on the subtitle track for a movie I'm authoring (DVD Maestro).

Now, I go to Subrip and do the save subpictures at Bitmap, but no matter what (SubRip 1.17) it won't stop clipping the bitmaps which I keep telling it to. So then the subtitles appear at the top left corner of the screen.

Now ALL I want is the full bitmap on the stream. Subrip .95 doesn't clip them, but it can't export to Maestro right away. I tried ripping the subtitles in .95 then making the SON file from the new Subrip, but in .95 it names the bitmaps Chinese000001, and the new one makes the SON as Chinese00001, so there's a one difference.

How can I just directly put the eact subtitles ont he stream? Driving me crazy!

[smiller667]

Well, I guess you could edit the .son script ... basically search & replace "Chinese" with "Chinese0" to match the bmps. Crude, but it should work.
I don't use maestro, does it really require full-size bmps? The .son format contains "display area" information for the bitmaps.

NB: Alternatively, go to "crop", allow cropping and set the new min. size to your video resolution. That way you get "full-frame" bitmaps. Still, no idea if this is necessary. Also, did you read the doc.txt? - DVDMaestro (v2.9 b2915a):
- after importing subtitles into DVDMaestro you have to import
palette file (.spf) too, in other case you'll get subtitles
with bad colors.
How to import palette? Double click any subtitle in the subtitle
timeline, then go to the Colors tab, press Edit Palette... and
finally press Load from there to load the .spf file (should be
in the same folder as the .son file).
- default Cropping setting is tested to fix hopefully all DVDMaestro
black-border-around-subpicture and corrupted-subpicture related
issues:
1. X-position has to be a multiple of 8 (discovered by guru1968 @ D9F)
2. Y-position has to be an even value (discovered by Taz69 @ D9F)
3. Width of the subpicture must never be a multiple of 8 + 1
(discovered by guru1968 @ D9F)
4. There should be an additional line under the subtitle text
(DVDMaestro cuts the last line sometimes).
If you still discover such a problems, then "crop" subpicture to
MPEG2width x MPEG2height - 2, and all the BMP problems disappear.