• Adobe Encore DVD

  Problem importing subtitles contating numbers in the beginning of line

  Posted by Elad Menashe on January 16, 2007 at 11:52 am

  Hey
  I’m trying to create a DVD for a family trip.
  I want the subtitles to be the hour & date in this format:
  HH:MM
  DD.MM.YYYY

  The Encore format is like that:
  
  _{<2nd line text>}

  problem is that the Encore subtitle file starts to interpret a number at the second line (the date) as the subtitle start time and when he gets to the ‘.’ it stops importing since this is not the format of the
  _{when the second line starts with a non-digit it imports the file with no problems}

  I have tried changing the subtitle file to use ‘|’ as line separator, but Encore imports it as one line (showing HH:MM|DD.MM.YYYY)

  I hope someone knows how to overcome this problem
  Thanks
  Elad

  Jeff Bellune replied 19 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Jeff Bellune

  January 16, 2007 at 12:31 pm

  I haven’t taken the time to test for myself, but have you tried putting a space before the second line of text?

  You didn’t say if you had tried that or not.

  -Jeff

  The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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  Elad Menashe

  January 17, 2007 at 8:10 am

  I tried, and the problem still persists
  any other workarounds? please?
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  Bouke Vahl

  January 23, 2007 at 5:47 pm

  Did you save your file as UTF 8?

  format should be tcIn tcOut subtitle text

  Bouke

  http://www.videoToolShed.com
  smart tools for video pro’s
  
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  Elad Menashe

  January 23, 2007 at 7:20 pm

  I did
  but that’s not the case, you didn’t read the problem
  I have trouble importing the subtitle file since the subsequent lines (when a subtitle has more than one line) start with a number, I get import error
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  Bouke Vahl

  January 23, 2007 at 9:55 pm

  Sorry, my bad.
  I think it’s trying to decode the number as TC…
  Only fast solution i see now is to add a dummy character before the number, and manually edit those out after import, or place them between (brackets) or .

  I could alter my subtitler application to generate a FAB file from your files, but i think that’s overkill for your specific situation. (It would set you back 169 dollar, kind of steap for a family trip video…)

  Bouke

  http://www.videoToolShed.com
  smart tools for video pro’s
  
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  Elad Menashe

  January 23, 2007 at 10:14 pm

  hmm. thanks for the response
  I thought of all of the above suggestions
  I figured that my best solution is to make the date & time in one line, it’s not that improtant that I should manually change all the subs myself.

  Is there a way to let Adobe know of this bug?
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  Jeff Bellune

  January 23, 2007 at 10:19 pm

  https://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html

  -Jeff

  The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

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