I have gone through the forums and cant seem to find an answer to my question? I have a movie in 3 avis...avi codec gives me this info video:1668 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 672*368 (16:9), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4, audio:448 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 0x2000 = AC-3 ACM Decompressor I want to eventually get it onto a PAL DVD using DVDlab pro. I've converted files like this before using TMPGEnc and had them work (not 16:9 though)...thing is I also have 3 lots of idx/sub files one for each avi part...I know that they have to be converted to srt files. Is there a way of joining the srt files to correspond with the joined avi before mpegging in TMPGEnc? Or do I embed the srt files into the 3 separate avis before joining the avis...or do I keep them seperate until authoring in DVDlab and insert the subs then?? which is the best way to get a final PAL DVD with subs from 3 non PAL avis and 3 srt files? Thanks in advance for any help.
ok...done a bit of reading, it seems that I can use Winsubtitler to join the subs and Consub to change the fps to 25...then when I get this file I can put it into DVDlab pro along with the joined/audio replaced/25 fps PAL mpeg and ermmm...hey presto right? Sound reasonable?
erm progress... joined the 3 avi files and set the framerate to 25fps in virdubmod...used winsubtitler to convert the sub files to srt at 25fps then set the colours and saved as a sup file in SRT2SUP...the main problem I've had is with the audio...I used virdubmod to extract the dual audio (1 english and 1 japanese)and converted the jp audio in besweet to mp2 (I did have 3 errors but the final audio comes to the millisecond of the video at 25fps) Just waiting for the final 16:9 PAL mpeg before adding the sup file and fingers crossed?? Does this sound right or are there problems I've missed?
Why do you think you need this bewildering array of tools? VirtualDub will do it all. There is a TextSub plugin for V-Dub that will deal with all the common subtitle formats. There are filters for just about anything you can think of. When your AVI is finished, you can then put it through VSO Divx-to-DVD which will produce a VTS fileset ready for burning. You can get the last free version they released on my site here: http://bernie1.myvnc.com/vsoDivxToDVD_setup_050.exe I know of no better AVI-to-DVD changer at any price. Anything but TMPG.
