Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can give me some advice on good programs or direct me to a good page on getting subs onto a disk?

the way ive been doing it isnt cutting it anymore.

thanks
Ralph

how do you mean, actually burning it into the avi? You can do that with gknot if you look on the subtitle tab (read a gknot guide like @ doom9.org). Remember its hardcoding which is really bad and totally pointless.

Its better leaving softsubs, why do you want to hardsub? All if does is remove your freedom to turn off the subtitles and remove any possibility to reshare/release the avi.

ps. moved

yeah i dont mind hardcoding them into the file as i always keep a copy of the original around for sharing.

whats the best way to softsub spud? i dont have the money right now to buy a dvd player that plays .avi/.wm files. the one i have now wont even play mpeg 2 files. it has to be dvd authored. is there a good program to softsub with? i dont know how to do this as in the past ive always hardcoded my subs

oh you mean your converting the movie? oh that's different then, if you want to hardsub it doesn't make much difference given you've already having to re-encode, and make menus.

You can hardsub with a whole host of programs, if your using cce, you can pop this into your avisynth script:

Basically that will burn your subs in when you do the encoding stage. You'll need vobsub installed, it comes with gknot.

Otherwise you can attach subs in a whole host of other ways, best way for a custom dvd is just mux them in:
http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?gui ... t=3;24#606
or
subtitle guides
etc. dvdlab offers you to mux in subtitle streams as well as multiple audio streams when you make your menus, then you can link buttons to the different streams.

ps. next time specify what your doing ie. converting xvid/divx to DVD, or authoring a DVD then that will save my looking like a fool and not answering I thought you meant just making a data disk.

On a side note, getting a xbox is still a worthwhile investment

"You can hardsub with a whole host of programs"

Thanks for all the info spud! what would you recommend as the quickest program to use for this? (DVD authoring/hardcoding subs?

you see heres my problem, i used to use tmpgenc to hard code them first, then roxio dvd builder to author the mpg into a dvd disk.

but for some reason tmpgenc is not recognizing most of the movies im getting from here for some reason. so since i have to find another program to hardcode the subs i might as well get one that can dvd author as well.

"On a side note, getting a xbox is still a worthwhile investment "
its coming up soon as i have some money that and a movie camera are my next investments. xbox first as the camera i want is a Panasonic Ag-DVX100 and they are pretty pricey, around 1-2k. but they are capable of creating almost a true 16mm look and feel so its worth it.

any suggestions?

well if your authoring a menu, you should look at dvdlab pro anyway, and since those guides cover dvdlab then that's your best method.

TMPGenc is okay, not as good as CCE in terms of quality, but its quicker. I wouldn't install a roxio program if my life depended on it

Since you will ditch that roxio crap immediately after reading this post or face retaliation, you might as well follow the dvdlab guide @ videohelp.com. DVDlab is pretty simple, you just make a PSD (photoshop image), and then add your buttons on a layer each (with as many buttons/layers as you want), import that into dvdlab, link the buttons to options and you have your menu..

oh btw, buy an xbox when the xbox2 comes out since they'll probably drop in price and:



Why not buy a 16mm camera instead of several grand on a digital one? it will probably be a lot cheaper and will save the loss if your pr0n0 business doesn't work out

"oh btw, buy an xbox when the xbox2 comes out since they'll probably drop in price and:"

yup thats what im waiting on actually.

"Why not buy a 16mm camera instead of several grand on a digital one? it will probably be a lot cheaper and will save the loss if your pr0n0 business doesn't work out "

well i thought about that. but see the problem with that is, i use a lot of video editing software. and to do the things in post that i want to do with what im going to be filming, it will be cheaper in the long run if i just go ahead and cough up the cash for digi camera. if i get a film camera, i will have to pay for the film, then pay for the processiong, then pay for the transfer to digital. and i would have to do that every single time i film something. that can get really costly afterwhile.

Spud, ive started using dvdlab-pro, but it seems it only accepts already converted mpg files? as most the movies i get off emule are avi and xvid clips are there any good quick file converters you can suggest?

CCE + avisynth. Good and Quick is an oxymoron.

You can use TMPEnc to speed things up, but its not as good.