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Post #1620428

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Siliconmaster482
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Revenge of the Sith: Rebalanced - Version 1.5.1 Released! Now with Subtitles and More!
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Date created
19-Dec-2024, 6:13 PM

I’ve finally ironed out the workflow for the Blu Ray subtitles and completed all parts of the 1.5 update. I ran a few more passes on the subtitles to catch any errors. Unless someone finds a typo somewhere, I think they’re good to go. And, if someone does find an issue please let me know. With 1,260 subtitles there’s a lot of opportunity for something to go unnoticed.

Here’s the workflow I finally ended up with:

  • Created the subtitles initially using Subtitle Workshop in .srt form. First the main subtitles, then closed captions in a second pass. Even though Subtitle Workshop does not support the ♪ symbol, I was able to paste it manually into the .srt file via Notepad for the closed captions.

  • I time-offset a copy of each for the Blu Ray, since the fan edit legal warning is before the main menu, rather than part of the movie itself like on the MKV.

  • Using Subtitle Edit, I exported Blu Ray .SUP files with the following settings to mimic the default VLC subtitles (for consistency with the MKV):
    Subtitle Export Settings

  • I built the disk in DVD Architect with two dummy subtitle tracks so that the menus had correct links. These were both timed incorrectly and jagged looking due to DVD Architect’s lack of subtitle anti-aliasing.

  • The tricky step was remuxing the audio and video files from the .M2TS file containing the main movie (in my case 00001.M2TS) with the correct .SUP files I’d made separately. At first I tried a full demux and remux using TSmuxer, but when swapped with the original M2TS file PowerDVD couldn’t read the movie and would only display black with no audio or video at all. My breakthrough in the end was to use the playlist file (000001.mpls) and not demux at all. I could remove the subtitle files and add my own and remux directly:
    Remux Settings

The result: It works!

  • I also had to use BDEdit to switch the top menu to item #12 because DVD Architect decided that my chapter menu was the “top menu” by default.

I hope to have files uploaded as soon as I have time to deal with all the logistics! I’ll post more information about the actual changes when the time comes.