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I'm about to embark on editing the subtitles for my fan edit, and any advice would be welcome.
For a start, what's the best subtitle file format to use? I'd like to be able to specify position, size, color, and ideally font, not just the text, while being compatible with as many players as possible.
Is there any way to rip subs from DVD into an editable format while preserving position, size, and color? How about from blu-ray (not my first choice, but better than nothing)?
And what's the best software for editing existing subtitles, for Linux or Windows? With features like moving a chunk of subtitles in a block, rather than having to adjust each line individually. And if possible, multiple channels so blocks of subtitles can be temporarily overlapped without getting mixed together.
How should forced subtitles be handled (eg for onscreen foreign text that needs translation irrespective of which soundtrack you're listening to)? Should there just be two separate subtitle tracks, or is there a way to flag some lines as forced? Can a specific subtitle track be set as active by default in an mkv file?
For a start, what's the best subtitle file format to use? I'd like to be able to specify position, size, color, and ideally font, not just the text, while being compatible with as many players as possible.
Is there any way to rip subs from DVD into an editable format while preserving position, size, and color? How about from blu-ray (not my first choice, but better than nothing)?
And what's the best software for editing existing subtitles, for Linux or Windows? With features like moving a chunk of subtitles in a block, rather than having to adjust each line individually. And if possible, multiple channels so blocks of subtitles can be temporarily overlapped without getting mixed together.
How should forced subtitles be handled (eg for onscreen foreign text that needs translation irrespective of which soundtrack you're listening to)? Should there just be two separate subtitle tracks, or is there a way to flag some lines as forced? Can a specific subtitle track be set as active by default in an mkv file?