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Creating Subtitles for DVDSP
The DVD spec allows up
to 32 simultaneous subtitle streams to be added to each video track. With
the subtitle option, you can switch to different language subtitles while
watching a DVD. DVDSP allows you to create subtitles directly inside the
track.
Adding Subtitles
with DVDSP:
Subtitles can be typed
directly into the subtitle track and then trimmed or extended to fit the
image. You can also import subtitle files.
Creating Subtitles with DVDSP
1. In an opened DVDSP
project, go to your track editor.
2. Ctrl-click in the first
subtitle stream (S1) and choose Add Subtitle (or add Subtitle at Playhead
if you’ve positioned your playhead at the place you want your subtitle
to begin).
The subtitle is automatically
selected and loaded into the Viewer window. You can simply start typing
the text of your subtitle to add it to this subtitle stream.
 The
default length of subtitles is five seconds. After you’ve type in
your subtitles you can shorten or lengthen them by trimming the clip.
Adjusting
the length of the subtitle
1. You can adjust the length of the subtitle by zooming into the subtitle
track using the Timeline Zoom control at the bottom-left corner of the
Track Editor.
2. Grab the right-hand edge of the subtitle and trim the subtitle as needed.
 3.
If you know the length that you want of your subtitle, you can also click
in the subtitle inspector and enter the amount of time next to the duration
field.
Formatting
the text:
1. After you’ve typed in your text, you can format it with a specific
font, size, color and outline.
2. Press Cmd-T to open the Font window.
3. Select a font and size for your subtitle text. Use fonts sized 24 pt
or larger for easy legibility and stay away from serif fonts.
4. Close the font window.
5. In the Subtitle Inspector, click Apply to Stream so
that these changes will be made on all the subtitles in this stream.
6. Click the colors tab in the Subtitle Inspector
7. Choose a color for your font and outline as well as an opacity that
will work for legibility.
Import
Subtitles from a Text File
If you are using subtitle files that someone is translating for you, you
can set them up to import directly into the track at the appropriate place.
In the text file, you will need to indicate the start and end time for
each subtitle and then add the subtitle text. You can also specify the
formatting of the subtitle at the top of the file. The following example
shows you clearly how the specifications should look inside the file.
However, you don’t need to put specs on your text. You can import
the text and then specify the font, size and color inside DVDSP.
 Import
a subtitle text file:
1. Ctrl-click the first subtitle stream in the Track
editor window and choose Import Subtitle File.
2. Select your formatted file and hit choose.
3. An alert will inform you that subtitles were imported.
4. Choose a language from the pop-up window to the left of the subtitle
track that matches the subtitle language.
Creating
Buttons over Video:
You can also use the subtitle streams to display text information or links.
You can also add graphic overlays that become buttons and also link to
menus or videos.
Note: Only one subtitle stream can be displayed at a
time. If you are adding overlay buttons to a subtitle stream, any other
subtitles that appear at that point in time won’t show up.
Before you add anything,
you will need to create button highlight markers in the video track to
indicate where the button begins and ends.
Create
Text Buttons:
1. Create a marker in the video track by hitting the M key.
2. Create a marker where you want to button to begin and in the Marker
Inspector, click the Button Highlight check box.
3. Move your playhead to where you want the button marker to end.
4. Create another marker by hitting the M key.
5. Choose that marker and click the Button Highlight check box. Use should
uncheck the Chapter marker box in the Inspector.
6. You should have two orange markers in the timeline.
7. Double-click the space between the two markers in the S1 subtitle stream.
A new subtitle should appear.
8. Double-click the new subtitle and add text to the menu if you want
to create a text-based button.
9. Click on the Force display check box in the General tab of the Subtitle
Inspector.
10. Choose an alignment for your text.
11. Next draw a button around the text by clicking on the background of
the track.
12. Link the button to a menu by Ctrl-clicking on the Button and choosing
Target>Menu>Menuofyourchoice.
 Create
a Button Highlight with a Graphic
1. To create a button with a graphic instead of text, you follow steps
1-7 in the procedure above.
2. Then link to a graphic file by going to the General Tab in the Subtitle
Inspector and going under Graphic>File. Choose the file for your graphic
overlay. You should follow the same specifications that you used for your
menu overlays in previous lessons.
3. You can adjust the position of this graphic through the offset dropdown
in the Subtitle Inspector.
4. You should now be able to draw a button around the graphic by going
to the video track.
5. You should set the colors for the normal, selected and activated state
the same way you did with the graphics for you button overlays.
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