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13th September 2006, 11:24 | #41 | Link |
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Just a quick note that I've fixed some bugs in v2.0.5:
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14th September 2006, 16:01 | #43 | Link |
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Paddington
Thanks for the response, I have managed to work around most of the things that I noted above. The word wrap is the most tricky because sometimes instead of wrapping to 3 or 4 lines, the text would be reduced in size, and I found I had to insert carriage returns in the text to maintain the size (which is damned tricky in S.C. edit text mode by the way! Any keyboard shortcut for that?)
Apart from that, the program works quite well, and I am still quite impressed. Thanks for all your hard work. |
15th September 2006, 09:32 | #44 | Link |
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black box for as long as running time?
hi,
firstly, thanks for that rockin' piece of soft! now, would it be possible to draw a black subtitle box for AS LONG AS the movie running time? when subs are on, they'd be displayed. when subs are off, the black box would still be on. that'd be useful in case hardcoded or burn-in original sub timing does not match with translated sub timing, and you'd like to keep those ugly burnt-in subs out of sight! i guess creating an empty sub to come up between two real text subs would work. but that'd mean creating twice as many subs! pointless... regards! Last edited by derebo; 15th September 2006 at 09:35. |
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Paddington
I noticed the changes in 2.05, everything seems to scale better now (my working resolution is 1280 x 1024).
I did note that every sub now says duration error, regardless of it's size or duration. I'm just going to ignore it. I usually play through the file with vobsub active anyway to see if they go by too fast, and change them if they do. Derebo: I have a dvd with two sets of subtitles, one is english and the other is english director's commentary. The main one is a forced subtitle and the other can be turned on and off. You could make your "black box" a forced sub and make your actual translation a switchable sub so even if you want to watch it in it's original language, the hard-coded subs would be covered up. |
18th September 2006, 09:13 | #46 | Link |
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paulcat,
you've given some insight i hadn't thought about before! the idea of that director's commentary and using forced and non-forced altogether is brilliant! i'll do some testing and report results. thanks for your nice feedback! derebo |
19th September 2006, 08:11 | #48 | Link |
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hi,
after some testing and thinking... the issue is: only 1 sub stream can be displayed at a time. the dvd has no menus, just the movie. so everything has to be bundled within that sub stream. i can only think of creating empty subs between text subs for as long as the movie running time... regards, |
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Interesting. I made a backup of my dvd of Night Watch, which actually has English (dubbed) and Russian versions. I picked the Russian version with English subs and got english subs with the dialogue and english subs for director's commentary both. The only thing I can think of is that the dialogue subs may be hard coded. I'll have to have another look at the disk.
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24th September 2006, 10:48 | #51 | Link | |
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In addition, Manusse has improved the SCSubtitleFilter (which does the subtitle overlay) to make it faster, and I have added his french manual to the release. |
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24th September 2006, 10:54 | #52 | Link | |
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In addition, <font color...> seems to become more popular, and they result in errors, so I first have to fix that. BTW, how would people want me to deal with those colors? I can add them automatically to the color palette, but this might overwrite some subtitles that have already been used elsewhere... Also, at the moment I can only use one foreground color (the DVD format allows multiple areas, but that wouldn't be so easy to implement at the moment), so any color code you would specify would affect the whole subtitle. Would that be OK? |
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24th September 2006, 14:14 | #53 | Link |
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paddington,
thanks for your beautiful piece of soft! yes, empty subs could be inserted by hand, but take a thousand subs. that'd be time-consuming! if a math function could do the calculation... that'd be great. of course, you decide and your time is yours. concerning colors: imho, i take two options: 1.-import font colors from already existing subs so that all subs will have the same look 2.-choose my own colors but then all subs would have to have my chosen colors. as you can see, i tend to standarize thanks and regards! |
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derebo, you might be able to find inspiration in this thread.
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..what a pitty..
i installed SubtitleCreator and a codec containing the clvsd.ax file which i also registered.. but still i'm gettting an error when trying to start SubtitleCreator.. i can't figur this one out.. i had it running once and now i'm only getting 'SubtitleCreator has encountered a problem and needs to close. bla bla bla'.. and now it won't start more then with this error message.. does anyone else have this problem and can advise..? btw.. it looked like a great application.. thx.. |
28th September 2006, 15:37 | #56 | Link |
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Paddington:
Just so I am clear on a few things...
The primary text colour must be constant for each subtitle bitmap, but may be changed for different bitmaps in each subtitle "stream"? And I assume this also applies to the subtitle position/size as well, in that each bitmap may be positioned in a different location from the previous one and need not be the same size? That would be handy, but it would likely involve you having to save the subtitle as a "project", keeping the colours and the positions for each sub in a file. That would be nice, especially if one is called away from the computer during the middle of something.. Would it be technically possible to use, say, a secondary colour (like the AA colour) as a primary text colour for a second line of dialogue, to indicate a different speaker? Paul keep up the good work |
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Could you please give us more details about your problem.
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So you are just opening SubtitleCreator and you get an exception? It may be due to the fact that SubtitleCreator tries to open the last sub that you have open and that it has an error that causes an exception. To check if it is the case, find the file named C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\SubtitleCreator\MRU.txt and rename it to something else like MRUold.txt. Try to open SubtitleCreator. If it is working, quit it, rename your file MRU.txt again and suppress its first line that points to a bad file. If this doesn't solve your problem, you must give us more details like the whole text of the error message you get. Cheers Manusse Last edited by manusse; 28th September 2006 at 19:52. |
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Hi,
I think this is a recurring question. There are many ways to do that. First you need to prepare a text file with your subtitles as text plus timings. Then you must convert these texts to bitmaps. And finally you must mux them with your DVD. You can do those with many tools, freeware or not with different levels of automation. The way I do it: 1°) Write a SRT file that corresponds to the audio track of the DVD: I use http://visualsubsync.corecodec.org/ that allows to enter text sentences corresponding to the audio slice of your DVD that you select with your mouse. It saves the result directly to a .srt file. 2°) Use SubtitleCreator's DVD Authoring Wizard that will allow you to create the bitmap stream and add it to your DVD with a very simple interface. It uses some other freewares that you must also install for demuxing the DVD, remuxing it and keeping the menus. (pgcdemux, muxman, vobblanker). Let me tell you one trick of SubtitleCreator for DVD that have no subtitles. You must use the Format -> Use prefered subtitle colors when creating the SUP file (bitmap) because the original color palette of your DVD is probably set to all colors black. Cheers Manusse |
28th September 2006, 22:24 | #60 | Link |
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Hi manusse..
thx for your help, it worked by renaming the MRU file now i was able to start SubtitleCreator again.. BUT..... when i loaded a .srt file it happened again.. the application kinda looked so it won't start again unless i rename the MRU file.. do i need to do this all the time i'm using SubtitleCreator..? thx again for your help.. |
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