MF7 sub-titles

bert858 · Post by **bert858** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:02 am

What's up with sub-titles in MF7. I inserted the sub-title file in the appropriate place and sub-titles played in the preview, but when I burned it to DVD ....no sub-titles...very annoying!!

lazael · Post by **lazael** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:39 pm

My DVD Player's subtitles are off by default. How about yours

MF7's subtitles work ok for me.

bert858 · Post by **bert858** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:06 am

I haven't got sub-titles on DVD yet in order to check the player for sync.
Am I doing it right: I get the video file, then I click on edit sub-titles, then insert the sub-title file, then make the menu then burn it to DVD?

lazael · Post by **lazael** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:43 pm

Dunno - not sure what you are doing. A subtitle for MF is a text file with extension .srt. Here's an example:

1
00:00:52,069 --> 00:00:52,698
Upstairs!

2
00:00:53,202 --> 00:00:54,799
What's going on?
What's the matter?

3
00:00:54,993 --> 00:00:56,237
Who are you?

4
00:00:57,705 --> 00:00:59,748
Cover the back.
Dade! Dade!

5
00:01:00,454 --> 00:01:01,650
Knock it down.

bert858 · Post by **bert858** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:18 am

the sub-title file extension is .srt

neonbob · Post by **neonbob** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:05 pm

lazael wrote:My DVD Player's subtitles are off by default. How about yours
MF7's subtitles work ok for me.

Subtitles defaulting off or on has little to do with the player but with the FLAGS placed on the disk. Have you ever tried to fast forward a commercial disk through the copyright warning? Notice it won't let you and instead comes up with a "no go" logo in the corner of your TV screen?

When you get into more expensive authoring programs you can enable/disable certain remote buttons (ie: fast forward, rewind, forward skip...etc) , default your subtitles off or on, set a default language track... and others. All of this is written to the disk in terms of " off/on flags". The dvd player reads these flags and learns from the disk what it is supposed to do, how the disk is to be played, what buttons are allowed to work and which ones are disallowed....

bert858 · Post by **bert858** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:55 pm

I guess I will just have to forget using sub-titles

neonbob · Post by **neonbob** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:56 pm

Did you turn subtitles ON with your remote?