Monday, March 10, 2014

Ripping Subtitles

Open SubRip (I recommend using at least version 1.14). Click the button (near the File menu) labeled "VOB" with a picture of a disc on it. The "What to Do?" window comes up. Click "Open IFO". Find the IFO file associated with your movie (already stored in your rip directory), or pick the associated IDX file (same place). Either one works as a subtitle source, though I prefer to use the IDX for no good reason. Choose the appropriate subtitle track under "Language Stream". Some movies have one for titles only, and one for subtitles and titles, or perhaps two different languages for subs). You will know you chose the wrong track if you end up with only 10 subtitles for a 2 hour movie. Reset the timecode on the right side to all zeros by pressing "Reset". Make sure all the VOBs for your movie are selected on the left. You wouldn�t want to make a subtitle file for only part of the movie. Make sure "SubPictures to text via OCR" is checked on the right. Click "Start".

The program will now scan through your movie until it encounters a subtitle. It will ask you to pick a color scheme such that the subtitle appears as white on a black background with NO outline. It is important that you choose the correct color scheme here. Now, a new window will appear. This is the window you do the dirty work in. SubRip should have highlighted the first character it sees. In the box below, you are to type your best guess as to what the character is. Type the character carefully, double-check it, and press OK or hit Return. Do this with every successive character presented to you. If a character is italicized, it will most likely ask you for it again, as it appears to be a completely different letter to the program. In such a case, type it as usual. There is really no need to go out of your way making italicized subs, because the SRT to SSA converter will not support them, so just type the character as usual, non-italicized. You will have to get the program Sub Station Alpha if you want to do fancy, animated subtitles, something I have never cared to learn to do. Plain subtitles take a lot less work, I'm sure, and are just as informative.

Something that will happen occasionally is SubRip highlighting two or more characters as one. Don�t be alarmed, just type exactly what is highlighted. If it selects "rst" as one letter, just type "rst" and hit OK. Capitalization is also important here so make sure to type exactly what is shown, unless you want to make it hard to read for some ridiculous reason.

Something else to watch out for: If you notice in the "Subtitles" window that your subtitles have "t oo ma ny sp ace s in th em" or "toofewspaces inthem", you will need to start over and do the following. Go to "Options, Advanced OCR Setup" in the main window. If your subs have too many spaces, try a higher number for Space Width Setup. If your subs have too few spaces, try a lower number. Don�t overcompensate, though. A change from 7 to 8 can make a large difference. Now start over and this time select the new Space Width Setup number. When you are finished extracting all the subtitles, leave SubRip running and go to the next step.

                                 

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