I guess at times I have a hard time letting some projects go. Case in point is the French hard-coded subtitles I have on this old AVI movie. I'd love to get rid of them and have explored all kinds of possibilities for the past few weeks now.
I must add, at this point, it's not going to make or break me if I don't figure this out. I can buy the movie on DVD without subs. I guess I'm just trying to use this as a learning experience, then I'll store the experience away.
I have successfully used the delogo filter on VirtualDub to remove them, but that really doesn't look all that great. Just yesterday though, I saw a post that recommended using either an older, formerly commercial editing program called MainConcept MainActor and Adobe Premiere.
The post said that you can load the AVI into those programs and it will show the video track, the audio track and the hard-coded subtitle track. Then, supposedly you just delete the subtitle track, re-save the file and your done.
I actually was able to get a hold of an old trial of MainActor and I tried loading the file into it, but only a video and audio track came up. Does anyone know anything about using MainActor.
I may also be able to get my hands on a version of Adobe Premiere, but I think I would especially need some help with that, as I've heard that can be a complicated program.
Hardcoded subs don't show as a seperate file in any program I know of, I think the post meant softcoded. I don't use MainActor but I think it supports cropping, use that. I use the MainConcept encoder to crop out hardcoded subs but you end up with an mpg ready to burn to DVD and there is some experimentation involved to crop the right amount.
