This is the situation: I'd like to create a video DVD in which there's only audio and subtitles, no video. I'm teaching Tristan and Isolde (the opera by Wagner) to a group of grade 10 students and would like to let them listen to the music, but I figured that I'd make it easier for them by displaying the subtitles at the same time that the movie is playing. It's within my means to create the subtitles myself in SRT format, and I can rip the CDs into WAV format for burning, but after that I'm sort of lost. Do I need to create a "blank" video running the entire length of each CD? If so, how? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
To be able to make DVD with subs, you need video, it can be black, blue or just picture screen. You can produce those in Premier or other software. What come to my mind is Mpeg Video Wizard DVD. In that one you can import jpeg, bmp file and splice it into long video, import your audio and text, create DVD. I am sure there will be other ideas comming from the rest on forum.
It could be done using VirtualDub and an Avisynth script. You would download VirtualDub, AviSynth, a DivX codec and the Lame mp3 codec.. Start with a still black image like a jpeg sized to NTSC (720 x 480) or PAL. Windows paint can do that. Then create a simple textfile with Notepad and save it with .avs at the end. ImageSource("C:\Documents and Settings\Superuser\Desktop\01blank.bmp",End=172627,FPS=23.976) At 23.976 frames per second times two hours (7200 seconds) 172627 frames will be created. Run VirtualDub and drag the .avs script onto the window. Click 'Audio' 'Full processing Mode' and load the WAV then select a compression setting. Click 'Video' 'Full processing mode' choose the subtitle filter and load the subtitles. Then choose a compression method (DivX). Click 'File' 'Save as avi' and in half an hour you have a two hour avi movie, dark screen, subtitles and audio. Convert to DVD using 'DVD Flick'. There are a number of variants like loading the subtitles into DVD Flick instead of VirtualDub, and I'm sure someone knows it.
