Friday, December 19, 2008

How to convert DVD to 3gp proper way - 3rd part: External subtitles

In the previous post we burned-in the subtitles, that we got directly from the DVD video files. This time we'll make a .3gp movie with embedded external subtitles, that we got with SubRip (see the step 2 in this post).
By using external subtitles we can place the subtitles much easier and precisely into the movie, and we can choose some setting that we can't with internal subtitles (font, outline width, shadow depth etc.).

Make everything from the previous post, from steps 1-13.

14. Add subtitle with "TexSub 2.23" filter. Open subtitles (most likely .ssa file), and click "Styles":


15. Set the values like you want, I found the following setting the best for my taste:
 

Font settings:

16. Filter list now looks something like that:

17. Again check the settings in the output movie in the main VirtualDub window:


That's it. Now go through the steps 14-17 from this post: set the start end the end of the movie, start frameserver, and encode the video using ffmpeg with 2 passes.

Final result on my Nokia:
 
 Compared with the movie, where we used internal subtiles with custom colors:
  

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