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  • DVD Studio Pro subtitle test

    Posted by Dan Gifford on April 2, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    Hello I have a simple 3 line, 10 second subtitle test that I’m trying to make work and can’t.

    DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2
    Mac Pro, 10.6.6
    The subtitles have been made on a windows machine and saved as a text file. The message I get from DVD Studio Pro when I import the subtitle file onto the corresponding track’s subtitle timeline is: No corresponding subtitles found.

    The mpeg1 file time code starts at three minutes. (00:03:00:00)
    The text file’s first subtitle starts at three minutes: (00:03:00:00)
    The timeline is set to show asset based timecode and starts at 3 minutes (00:03:00:00)
    There are no fonts or styles specified (the text file is simply three subtitles)

    I’ve attached the subtitle file 1824_testrastkowithtc.txt.zip
    The mpeg1 file: 1825_avidtimecodempeg1.m1v.zip

    As this was supposed to be a test for the longer subtitling process I need to know it’s going to work, and I must be doing something wrong! Anybody know what’s wrong?
    Thanks.
    Dan

    Dan Gifford replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Daniel Ludwig

    April 4, 2011 at 8:30 am

    dan,
    is there a reason why you are using MPEG1 instead of MPEG2? I would go MPEG2 because of better picture-quality.

    your subtitel-file should look like that:

    03:00:00:00, 03:00:10:00, sample-text
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .

    cheers

    danny

  • Dan Gifford

    April 6, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Thanks Danny that worked
    It was good to get at least a basic test working. Now I have to find out why the formatting is different when the subtitler exports their subtitle test.

    is there a reason why you are using MPEG1 instead of MPEG2?

    The subtitler’s program only takes mpeg1 (I’ll use MPEG2 for the final DVD)

    your subtitel-file should look like that:
    03:00:00:00, 03:00:10:00, sample-text

    It worked!
    Thanks.

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