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sirrian
15th November 2003, 00:45
Hi all,

I ran several searches and came up with nothing on this error.

I'm adding my own subs to a DVD (which i've done dozens of times) but i've never had this problem before. I've got everything laid out in Scenarist (assets imported, chapter points set, etc) and I import the .sst file, which goes fine (shown below.)


Info Checking Subtitle File. Stream ID = 1, File = (M:\Projects\RX_Movie\subs\Tagen_first_edit.sst)
Info Storing Stream ID 1 sub-pictures.
Warning Sub-Picture (stream 1 in Track "VTS_01_PGC_01") is across scene boundary at 01:47:46:10
Info Finished.


Once I encode the subpictures, however, I get the following error for 2 out of the 1547 BMPs...


Error Can't open image file.[Subpicture Encoder]


...the other 1545 encode without any problems.

The bitmaps were created by going SSA -> MaestroSBT -> SST/BMP.
I have tried recreating the BMPs several times, checking the sst file, and anything else I could think of but nothing has worked and I don't understand why there is a problem with 2 of them when they were all produced at the same time by MaestroSBT. The 2 files Scenarist doesn't like open fine in any other program I view them in so it can't be the BMP files, can it? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

oddyseus
15th November 2003, 11:13
Open the 2 offending files in Photoshop/Paint whatever and save again.

If in Photoshop make sure u can save them in 4 color bmp by changing the color space, also check their dimensions. It should be 720x576(480)

sirrian
15th November 2003, 18:43
Awesome. That did it, thanks! I swear I thought of that, maybe I just never actually tried it...