[PlanetCCRMA] Editing and rendering subtitles for video

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:10 +0200, David Fraser wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> A friend of mine is wanting to edit subtitles for movies, and then 
> render them onto a movie that can be played on windows machines...
> I found quite a few apps that will allow the editing of subtitles 
> (Ksubtitle seemed fairly good) but am struggling with the rendering.
> Basically he just wants the text overlayed on top of the video image. I 
> tried to see if this could be done with cinelerra by creating text 
> images, but it seemed too much work.
> Has anybody got any hints / tips on the best way to do this using free 
> software?

Kino is a basic video editor for fv format files, it has a titler plugin
available. I don't know if it would be useful. 

On FC4 the package for the editor is "kino" and "kino-dvtitler" for the
plugin. 

-- Fernando