Anyone explored with subtitles?

[Mari-Sisko Khadgi]

Hi,

 

I was wondering, if anyone has been doing subtitles with SayMore?  I would like to know a way to add hardcoded subtitles with any free software. 

 

I followed

this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcvozqQZhM for “How to add/hardcode subtitles (VLC)”, but it didn’t work for me.  I also tried the instructions from http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/tp/how-to/ELAN_subtitles.pdf and using VitrualDub, but no success.

 

 

For doing subtitles in non-roman scripts, I have found out that there are two crucial steps: first needing to code the font in UTF-16LE and instead of using .srt use .ssa.  Below are instructions how to do that, but maybe that could be an added feature to SayMore?

 

 

Regards,
Mari-Sisko

 

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From: http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/tp/how-to/ELAN_subtitles.pdf

 

3.2 UTF-8 UTF-16

In order for the subtitles to display correctly the srt-files have to be converted to UTF-16LE.

This is necessary because the subtitle software I use doesn’t interpret ELAN’s srt-files quite

right as they are encoded in UTF-16BE. You may do this with any Unicode text editor

capable of saving UTF-16LE files, for example Babelpad.

Open the subtitle file from before (subs.srt) with Babelpad and do SAVE AS right away.

Encoding has to be changed to UTF-16. Byte Order: LITTLE ENDIAN and BYTE ORDER MARK.

Newline: CR/LF PAIR. Save file.

 

3.3 SRT SSA

Now subtitles have to be converted from SRT format to SSA. VobSub has to be installed for

this task. VobSub contains a little tool called SubResync. If you can’t find it in the start menu,

you should be able to locate it at: C:\PROGRAM FILES\GABEST\VOBSUB\SUBRESYNC.EXE.

Start SubResync and open “subs.srt”. Maximize your window. If you click on an annotation

you should see a preview of the subtitles as they would display in a video. Unicode specific

characters might not display correctly as you first have to select a Unicode compatible font.

Click on EDIT and in the next windows click on the selected font (usually Arial on Windows

machines). Now choose a Unicode font, e.g. Lucida Sans Unicode on Windows machines.

Click ok and you will go back to the previous windows. Here you can change some stylistic

properties. You may leave everything as is or change some settings. You can change or tweak

these settings later on as well.

Click OK and try in the main window if the subtitles display correctly now.

If everything looks how it’s supposed to look go to SAVE AS. File type has to be changed to SUB

STATION ALPHA (*.SSA). Also check UNICODE OUTPUT. Now make sure that you change the file

extension to SSA! Unfortunately SubResync doesn’t do this automatically. Save and exit.