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Subtitle-friendly DVD authoring app?

spicediver

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For my latest project I'm adding some subtitle tracks for the first time on the DVD, but I'm finding Adobe Encore - which I have used in the past - a nightmare to work with when it comes to subs. :mad:

Online searches have revealed a host of problems experienced by other Encore users too.

So I was wondering what other DVD authoring apps other faneditors have used that are subtitle-friendly?

I have .srt files, which I can pre-convert into whatever format the app needs.
 
Adobe Encore uses a specific type of file for its subtitles. To get your .srt file converted, load it on Subtitle Workshop, then go to File > Save as..., and select Adobe Encore DVD as the output. The resulting file will be Encore compatible.
 
Dwight Fry said:
Adobe Encore uses a specific type of file for its subtitles. To get your .srt file converted, load it on Subtitle Workshop, then go to File > Save as..., and select Adobe Encore DVD as the output. The resulting file will be Encore compatible.
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Yes this is true, thanks for the comment.

I also discovered that - inexplicably - Encore reads the subs on an NTSC project with a 30fps timecode, not a 29.97 one, causing a mysterious drift out of sync over a period of several hours. Something about frames versus dropped frames or something - the technical explanation doesn't matter. What matters is the problem is not even hinted at in the Encore documentation and I just happened to stumble across it in a forum somewhere. So I re-saved the subs in Subtitle Workshop as 30fps and it fixed the drift. [note: Dwight, in those Spanish subs you are doing for me on Dune at the moment please don't do that fps conversion I've just mentioned - I'll do it myself when you're finished - thanks!]

Now at least I'm making some progress...when Encore doesn't crash, that is.

In the meantime I've been looking at DVD Lab Pro 2.
 
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