subtitles in Tmpgenc problems

Discussion in 'Subtitle help' started by woodtogo, May 15, 2009.

  1. woodtogo

    woodtogo Member

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    I am trying to import subtitles for my video clips of the tv show boston legal. When I import the sub only 5 min of subs will import leaving the rest of the show without subs. What am I missing? need help. thanks
     
  2. XEQtor

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    Not sure what you meant by "subs". Is it SSA's .sub files?

    AFAIK, TDA/TAW only "officially" supports SRTs and their own internal subtitling format.

    If I have subtitles in another format, I'll find utilities to convert them to SRTs. sub2srt is one. I also have Aegisub on standby to convert "everything" to SRTs.

    I prefer SRTs because I can view it in any text editor and can "see" (and fix) errors before loading into TDA/TAW.

    FYI, TDA/TAW's SRT support is very basic - no markups, no locales for utf-8 file encoding. If you have an extra empty line in your SRT, loading terminates from there.

    If your "subs" is a .SRT file, then, perhaps this is your problem. Load it into Notepad and look at the 5 min mark - there should be only one blank line before the next timeline. Be very careful editing subtitles in Notepad - mistakes can easily happen. Make backups before you start just editing in case.
     

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