Video Editing

[thecoolnessrune]

I have been starting into video editing and making my own videos utilizing Windows Movie Maker 2. I take clips of anime and set them to music I also am making subtitles for the music. (Music is mostly in Japanese so I am making Japanese and English Subtitles). Through my endeavors I have made some great videos but I have also ran into many problems.

1. Windows Movie maker will only export as a .wmv file to my hard drive. I need avi. Is there a program that can convert it. Read problem number 2 first before giving an application just in case there is a better one.

2. I used Sub Creator 1.2.0.117 to make subtitles. For my files I have my movie calles Inuyasha Music Video. For my subtitle I have Inuyasha Music Video Subtitle. I save the subtitle in the .ssa format (SubStationAlpha). My problem is how do you insert the Subtitle into the movie so that when playing it in a DVD player you can hit the subtitle button to bring the subtitles up. If I have to my program can make the subtitles in the following formats: .ssa, .srt, .txt (Simple Time Format), and Frame Format.

3. How do I insert multiple subtitles. Say I push the subtitle button once on the DVD player and English subtitles appear. I press it again and the Japanese subtitles appear.

4. LAst problem. Is there a program so I can rip my Chobits DVD into an AVI format? Don't worry about copy protection, I already hacked that. Don't worry, I ain't planning on distributing across the net. I just want to make a video with it, but windows movie maker can't read .mp4 (I converted them to .mp4 with Nero Recode) or .vob files.

Well hopefully somebody can help me . I have Sub Creator, Nero, and Windows Movie Maker at my disposal right now. But since I have DSL, I'll download just about any free, spyware free file to get the job done . Thx

 

[yukichigai]

I think WMV can be converted to AVI using AviSynth scripts and the DirectShowSource() function within that. Don't hold me to it though.

If you're going to convert subs to DVD format you need a DVD conversion utility. I'm assuming you're already converting the video to MPEG-2/1 DVD format. If so I suggest you get DVD-Lab and use it as an authoring tool; it allows you to import subtitles from a number of formats, including srt and ssa.

Multiple subtitles are tricky; I can't remember the freeware utilities that convert subtitles, and the trial version of DVD-Lab only allows you to include one subtitle stream. Do a sourceforge search; you should find something.

Ripping DVDs is easy. Go over to doom9.org and get Gordian Knot or Auto Gordian Knot.