subtitles for DVDA – karaoke style

[Miguel Almanza]

A quick youtube search showed results with some plugins and some quick ways to edit text laid over the movie, but in my experience, I think you might be better off using a Karaoke editor, since it lets you change color and easily add text at a particular time.

I’ve done subtitles in DVD Architect and it’s a bit time-consuming, but unfortunately DVDA doesn’t have the color-changing feature you would need in a Karaoke track.

Unless you want to have the text just remain on the screen while the lyrics are sung, it’s easy to add the text as a subtitle track in DVD Architect. Lastly, if you chose to forego the CD+G editor method, you might want to also try a Karaoke effect in Vegas or a video editor like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccvl_vBBXM

Or are you thinking of one like the Disney Sing-Along videos series? 🙂 Like so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRi0aGTwsY

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Miguel,

What I’m looking for is as your example 2… Disney.

I don’t need a bouncing ball, and yes, just need the text to remain on the screen while the lyrics are being sung.

The movie is of an entertainer playing the piano and singing, 2 camera angles. A single colour and treatment of the text would work fine.

I hope this helps clarify my needs.

Gilles

[Miguel Almanza]

Whether you use a plug-in, some software, or do it manually, you won’t be able to get away from the time-consuming part that is the setting up of the start and end times, unless you can find a track already made of the songs in question. Look for websites that might provide a text file.

I don’t know what that subtitles software does, but I would like to try it, too. Here’s the manual for DVD Architect 6.0:
https://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/manuals/dvdarchitectpro6.0_manual_enu.pdf , pages 90 through 93, show how to create, edit, import, etc.

A quick editing of the subtitles in a title I had shows you can export to see what a track uses as far as markers, start and end, text, etc. Here are the contents of a track I added for a English subtitles, which Architect exported with .sub (although it could be .txt) :

0001 00:00:01:86 00:00:02:13 hey

0002 00:00:03:06 00:00:03:16 hey

0003 00:00:04:86 00:00:05:13 We're

0004 00:00:05:86 00:00:06:50 the

0005 00:00:07:00 00:00:07:15 monkees

(You need the lines skipped)

Here is a Spanish (es) track .sub file contents:

0001 00:00:01:33 00:00:01:60 todo

0002 00:00:02:53 00:00:02:63 Nada

Lastly, if you want to format as italics, you’ll have to do it on an individual basis within Architect by formatting each subtitle event.

I hope I’ve helped. I’ve learned DVD Architect in a hurry, so I’m happy to share info.

[Miguel Almanza]

LASTLY, if you already have the song, and the lyrics, it will just be a matter of adding spaces between each line, then bringing in the subtitle text and moving the events. I just noticed that it says this in the importing section of the manual (p. 92).

If you have Word or any other processor, just find every Paragraph mark and replace with TWO paragraph marks. Then rearrange each line or event individually.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks a bunch Miguel!
This is great! Thanks for the refs to the manual. I had completely forgotten about it, as silly as it sounds.

I like the idea of importing only the words as lines from a text file, then importing it, then adjusting them to match the music.

I think this will be easier then either:

1. entering them as regions in Vegas and exporting for DVDA
2. Entering them as text events in Vegas

Cheers,

Gilles