[PlanetCCRMA] Editing and rendering subtitles for video

[David Fraser]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:10 +0200, David Fraser wrote:
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>>Hi all
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>>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?
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>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. 
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>On FC4 the package for the editor is "kino" and "kino-dvtitler" for the
>plugin. 
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Aha! Thanks.
I didn't see this because I couldn't open the file in kino.
Indeed, I still can't. It seems to accept only DV format, but I can't 
work out how to get existing video off a DVD into this format.
I've tried mencoder and transcode. It seems there isn't much information 
on this on the web as Kino is basically designed for importing off a 
1394 camera.
Anyway I think spumux can do what I need but it would be nice to be able 
to use Kino on general videos - any ideas anyone?

David