Does anyone use the subtitle track in DVDA?

[Rob Strobbe]

You might want to be a little more specific.

Rob

[Larry Watts]

I posted a specific earlier and had no response at all so I thought a general question might produce some response! Thanks!

There is a software bug that occurs when adding a subtitle track that the project size doubles to beyond what a DVD will hold. This can resolve itself when subtitles are added for all tracks. (Size drops down to normal)

What is not resolving itself is when the subtitles are made bold and the size is increased. The project stays too big nad I’m having the projects go corrupt and won’t load.

My impression is that there are very few people using subtitles with DVDA.

Thanks

Larry

[Rob Strobbe]

It’s not a bug.

Look at it this way: When you add a video to a DVD project multiple times, you’re creating multiple titles. But since each title has exactly the same content (same video stream, same audio stream), it can reference the same VOB(s) for each title.

But when you added another stream to one of those titles, it’s now different from the others. DVD Architect has to, according to the rules of the DVD format, create a different VOB for that title. You’ve specifically told DVDA “create these titles with just a video stream and an audio stream, but create this other one with a video stream, audio stream, and a subtitle stream.” It has no choice but to create another VOB (or set of VOBs if the first one is over 1GB) for that title.

“My impression is that there are very few people using subtitles with DVDA.”

Sure, there are. But this issue only presents itself when someone is both 1) using multiple titles that reference the same file, and 2) adding a new stream to some but not all of those titles.

Rob

[Larry Watts]

Thanks Rob!

I meant to say that the project has one video stream and audio stream, but with multiple references to the same file. (Shorter segments)

I then added the subtitle track and subtitle file to every instance.

This is where the project never gets smaller and gets corrupted.

Make sense?

Thanks

Larry

[Larry Brewer]

I’m work on a Vegas / DVDA project and I am experiencing similar problems to the one you were asking about. I’ve discovered the trick to keeping the project size down is to use exact formatted subtitles for every instance they appear in the project. If you so much as make 1 subtitle bold in one instance, on one timeline, but not in the other timelines, that will add an addition VOB and increase the project size accordingly.

Can some one help me figure out how to “save” a formatted set of subtitles, so that I can re-use them on subsequent timelines and avoid the problem I just described.

Thanks

Larry Brewer