How do I hard code alien subtitles into the video like you did?
Here's what I did...
I had a still from the SE LD left over from my LD->DVD project a year or two ago. I got that in Photoshop, scaled it to match the same frame from the DVD, then made a text layer. The best match for me was AlternateGotNo3D, 42pt, 70% width, -25 on the tracking (except where characters came too close together), and with doubled spaces. For NTSC you'll need to change the height to 83%. Then I added a 1px black Inner Glow (50% opacity) and a 1px black Outer glow (100% opacity).
That will give you the same look as my DVD in Photoshop. What I then did was make the text red, the background green, and use those levels in a C program that applied the subtitles to right frames.
The inner glow softens the text (and gets rid of interlace flicker) and the outer glow makes sure it's still visible against white objects, like the lamp on the table.
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