problem with the colors of the subtitles

[M2M]

If I copy the colorcodes from the original ifo to the new ifo, with my new subtitle added, the color is copied, but the subtitles do not have the same color as the original subtitles. I used dvdshrink, srt2sup, ifoedit and nero to burn the disc. I've tried different colorcodes, ones from the original disc, and even tried to make my own.

Does anybody know what's going on and how to fix the colors of the subtitles?

Great regards, Maarten

[Surf]

Hello M2M, welcome to the club:

I'm assuming that you have not used PGCedit program? If so, then it's easy as baking a pie.

Open your original movie in PGCedit, on the left hand column, locate the movie which is easily identified as 1:59:14 something like that. Double click it and on the pop-up screen you can do a copy all of the 16 rubic cube color. Open PGCedit again without closing the 1st, load your target folder and double click the movie, do a paste-all.

[M2M]

Hello M2M, welcome to the club:

I'm assuming that you have not used PGCedit program? If so, then it's easy as baking a pie.

Open your original movie in PGCedit, on the left hand column, locate the movie which is easily identified as 1:59:14 something like that. Double click it and on the pop-up screen you can do a copy all of the 16 rubic cube color. Open PGCedit again without closing the 1st, load your target folder and double click the movie, do a paste-all.

I have opened them both, but the colors on the original disc do not seem to be the colors of the subtitles... the original colors are blue and red... quit odd, since the subtitles are perfectly white

[M2M]

is it possible, that the color of the subtitles is depending on something else then just the colors selected in the ifo file?

Ór does anybody know, what each of the 16 editable subtitlecolors is for?

With kind regards, Maarten

[Surf]

Yes it can be confusing at the beginning, but believe it or not your white sub-title is made from several colors. What have you to lose? Just paste it. Do the save, open your software player to verify. PGCedit does not display sub-title.

If I'm not mistaken there is no such policy on what the cubes are specifically for. Created by randomness I believe. I too asked about it before. But then again you can somehow guess...

[M2M]

I'm sorry to bother some ppl again, but this time I've made a screenshot of the original subcolors, take a look:

http://www.spymac.com/upload/gallery/f_16/user_160724/upload_417085.jpg

aren't they odd colors?

[Surf]

lol, you don't have to paste your whole monitor screen! :D

But you're right it's odd with only turquoise, grey and blue and the rest in black. Surely this is not the original?

[M2M]

the G drive is my dvdrom drive and I've copied the colors... nevertheless the subs are turquase, I've tried many other color profiles but what I do not get is why you need to fill in 16 colors

[r0lZ]

Try this:
Open your new DVD, and change all colors to different ones, easily identifiables. Save. Play. Note the color of the subtitle. In PgcEdit, change that color again to white. Save.
Should work.

Note that you may have to set 3 colors: text color (white), outline (black) and antialias (gray).

[M2M]

just too bad most sub colors are made up of different colors (e.g. white is also made out of red blue and green)... but I'll give it a try, and when I'm finished I'll post which of the 16 selectable colors, matches the subcolor :)

[mpucoder]

Here's where it would be handy to know the color code used in electronics:
0 black
1 brown
2 red
3 orange
4 yellow
5 green
6 blue
7 violet
8 grey
9 white
only covers 10 colors, but that's better than no plan. (btw brown and yellow are the same hue, just different saturation levels)

[blutach]

May be naive - but why don't you change them all to white?

Regards

[M2M]

May be naive - but why don't you change them all to white?

Regards

then the background of the subtitles would also be white, which means that you would only see a white bar at the bottom of the screen, and that is not what I had in mind of subtitles :)

[CoNS]

M2M, you may find the "Manipulate SUP files" tool in SubtitleCreator helpful. With this tool, you can load your bitmap subtitle files for editing vertcial position and colours, and unlike the older program, SupRemap, you can actually see the bitmap subs that you loaded in the program.

This way you can assign different colours from the IFO colour table to the bitmap subs and immediately see the result and save. Use either the SubtitleCreator default IFO example file with standard colours, or load your own IFO file, i.e. from your original DVD. For the latter, it's of course very important that you select the right IFO file from the DVD, that is the IFO file containing the main movie (normally the IFO file associated with the largest VTS on the DVD)

[M2M]

M2M, you may find the "Manipulate SUP files" tool in SubtitleCreator helpful. With this tool, you can load your bitmap subtitle files for editing vertcial position and colours, and unlike the older program, SupRemap, you can actually see the bitmap subs that you loaded in the program.

This way you can assign different colours from the IFO colour table to the bitmap subs and immediately see the result and save. Use either the SubtitleCreator default IFO example file with standard colours, or load your own IFO file, i.e. from your original DVD. For the latter, it's of course very important that you select the right IFO file from the DVD, that is the IFO file containing the main movie (normally the IFO file associated with the largest VTS on the DVD)

this really helps out! thanks a million!

[CoNS]

you're very welcome, hope it works out for you! :)