• Adobe Encore DVD

  Subtitle Drift

  Posted by Jeremy Brunson on February 21, 2015 at 5:17 pm

  I’m having an issue with subtitle drift in Encore CS6. I’m hoping others have had the same issue and have come up with a solution.

  I have a timeline that’s 1 hour and 5 minutes. It’s 23.98. The subtitles, both English and Spanish, were originally created in SRT format as our primary method of distribution has been VHX.tv. I’m on a Mac and used cross-platform subtitle tool Jubler to convert the SRT to Encore TXT file. I paid special attention to make sure it didn’t change the frame rate.

  When I import it into Encore, it drifts by approximately 3 seconds towards the end. It seems to be a drop frame/non-drop frame type of drift but Encore acknowledges that the timeline is in 23.98. I converted the subtitles to 24 fps. I’ve opened up the txt file and changed the semicolons to colons. Everything I’ve done so far hasn’t resulted in anything different.

  I’m going a little nuts. Hopefully I’m just missing something obvious?

  I’m on a Mac Pro running 10.10.2 if that makes any kind of difference.

  Daniel Ludwig replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
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  Daniel Ludwig

  February 22, 2015 at 10:28 am

  Jeremy,
  yes – this a DF-/NDF-thing. sometimes you need to import subtitles as 24fps and export them as 23.98 and other way round. I know this behaviour with BDN-sripts for blu-ray.

  could you upload the SRT-, and the resulting encore-file, so one can have a look at it.

  danny
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  Jeremy Brunson

  February 23, 2015 at 2:00 am

  Hi,

  I’ve included a link to the dropbox folder with two SRT files and my encore folder. In the project, I’ve got a subtitle track that’s drifting for reference.

  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yaq6c21ozvgq1vk/AAAoVOwIQ_I5aU_vffSODn6Ia?dl=0

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Best,
  Jeremy
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  Daniel Ludwig

  February 23, 2015 at 6:43 am

  Jeremy,
  is it 3sec to early or to late?
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  Jeremy Brunson

  February 23, 2015 at 7:43 am

  The subtitles are about 3 seconds behind the audio and video about an hour in.
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  Daniel Ludwig

  February 23, 2015 at 8:02 am

  Hi,
  these subtitles should fit:

  https://www.moviedesign.de//files/20150224_subs_rosetta.zip

  danny
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  Jeremy Brunson

  February 23, 2015 at 11:36 pm

  Thank you so much! They fit perfectly. Do you just have a good subtitle editor? I tried adjusting the framerate in Jubler but the end result was the same.
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  Daniel Ludwig

  February 24, 2015 at 6:12 am

  Jeremy,
  Jubbler is a good application to start with. I´m working on a mac as well and I´m using annotiation edit for subtitle-editing.

  https://www.zeitanker.com

  It´s a bit weird with the subtitles, especially if you´ve got 24fps or 23.98fps. mostly you need to do a trial and error. sometimes they fit if you export as 24fps with 24fps-footage, sometimes they need to be exported as 23.98fps. no clue about it.

  danny

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