Originally posted by: wmgan
No, I wouldn't crop out the "Greedo text" because the subtitles aren't burned into the video -- they're in a separate track, so they can be added again when authoring the DVD (though I realize now they may look stretched since they were designed for non-anamorphic video). And the process would be similar for PAL, just with different dimensions.
Is it possible to replace them with burnt-in subs, and if so how do you do it... and if you do, and assuming you didn't convert to anamorpihc... would you still need to reencode the entire DVD or just that part? No, I wouldn't crop out the "Greedo text" because the subtitles aren't burned into the video -- they're in a separate track, so they can be added again when authoring the DVD (though I realize now they may look stretched since they were designed for non-anamorphic video). And the process would be similar for PAL, just with different dimensions.