Subtitles with black backround? (See pics inside)

Discussion in 'Subtitle help' started by marioxb, Feb 8, 2006.

  1. marioxb

    marioxb Member

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    Is it possible to make a subtitle stream like this? I have Street Fighter II- The Animated Movie on US DVD and a very bad quality subtitled Japanese VHS. I want to get the Japanese DVD so I can create a hybrid Japanese/ English version. Both the US and Japanese versions ONLY contain the one language version. What they did when they released the US version, every time a location came up on the screen in Japanese, it was covered with a black box with English text, as seen below. (I simulated the below images since I couldn't find a proper Japanese screenshot.)

    [​IMG] Japanese

    [​IMG] American

    Is there any subtitle program that would allow me to do something like this, create a subtitle stream with a black box behind it? I want this so I can keep both versions in tact on my new DVD, maybe having the stream automatically selected when English language is selected? There are about 10-20 times this happens in the movie and it is displayed for about 3 seconds.
     
  2. Rikoshay

    Rikoshay Regular member

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    I think they just did that so it would be easier to read it. I'm not sure if there is a way to create it permanently, but I think you can create the same effect through some sort of means to change the color and background of it.
     

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