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  DVDA import subtitles

  Posted by Will Moffitt on April 5, 2006 at 12:15 am

  I saw a post a while back asking if there was a way to import subtitles (graphic files and a navigation file) from professional subtitle outfits. I never saw a response. Maybe I missed it. I have a job where I need to make a one-hour DVD program that has a choice of several asian languages. I don’t speak any of them. I would be receiving subtitle files from an outside vender and need to be able to import them into DVD Architect to make the final DVD. Is it possible? And how? Or do I need to do it in another DVD authoring program.

  Thanks

  Tom Pauncz replied 20 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  April 5, 2006 at 1:44 am

  DVDA can import subtitle files in certain formats. It’s hard to say if the format they send is one of them until it arrives and you try it.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Will Moffitt

  April 5, 2006 at 5:22 am

  How easy is it to drop these imported files into DVDA? I won’t have any idea where they should be in relationship to the video because they will be in foreign languages.

  Thanks
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  Edward Troxel

  April 5, 2006 at 2:10 pm

  Add the video to a menu, double-click the video to open it up, click on the “Add Subtitle Track” button and then click on the “Import Subtitles…” button.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Tom Pauncz

  April 5, 2006 at 8:37 pm

  Will,
  The format of the importable subtitle text file look like this is:

  0019 00:00:19:00 00:00:19:29 There’s no blood, right?
  0020 00:00:20:00 00:00:20:29 Abandon all hope ye who enter.
  0021 00:00:21:00 00:00:21:29 – Dammit!
  – What?
  0022 00:00:22:00 00:00:22:29 Dammit! I just bought this thing.
  0023 00:00:23:00 00:00:23:29 Let me see.

  As you can see, there is an in and out point, subtitle text (that can span more than one line) and a sequence number as the first of the four fields.

  There is really nothing to it.

  If you receive the subtitle file in another format, it may be easy to convert to DVDA’s format using a text editor.

  HTH,
  Tom
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  Will Moffitt

  April 6, 2006 at 2:57 am

  The subtiles file I get from the professional source has a .txt file that has timecode references that point to graphic files that contain the Chinese, Japanese, etc. subtitles. Can DVDA use these?
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  Tom Pauncz

  April 6, 2006 at 2:22 pm

  Hi Will,
  I am not sure – gut feel says no. If you can email me a small sample file, I’ll take a quick look. pauncz [at] attglobal [dot] net

  Tom

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