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Sonic scenarist subtitler5/31/2023 ![]() Leave it alone, convert to progressive, inverse telecine (IVTC), lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Is your plan to compress the video also, or just leave as is? De-interlacing while compressing it can be a slippery slope at times quality-wise. Not sure what you are using as playback software but most should handle the subtitles fine as well as de-interlace for you on playback to screen - Kodi, VLC, MPC-HC, etc. Sorry, I did not see this thread sooner to offer help or advice. The only cost is if you plan to use it for blu-rays. You do need to download a new version of MakeMkv every few months or so when they update the software. mp4 would be better than avi but not as good as mkv in my opinion. This way you can still keep the default AC3 audio file and extended Dolby channels 5.1+ which avi does not like without mods. mkv format which is newer and more flexible than the. I agree with Terry in using MakeMKV to rip your files to disk. Glad you had a breakthrough and are making progress, Marianna. An under-counter apartment-sized one would be big enough for my current collection and llikely future additions. That sounds to me like a refrigerator with the temp at its highest setting, tucked away in an otherwise useless corner above the 1972 flood line. It specifies 41-68 degrees F and 30-50% humidity. Then I can store the discs properly, according to the most recent archival storage parameter that I could find, ISO TC 171/SC from January, 2002. Both of my TVs have jacks for USB drives. My plan is to eventually move the content of all of the DVDs that I view frequently to my huge external hard drive, which is automatically and continuously backed up to Carbonite, and to put a copy on a set of USB drives to save prime physical storage space near the TV sets and to reduce wear on the discs. I tried one episode without those options, and the resolution looks sharper to me with them, although that may be wishful thinking. ![]() I don't know whether or not the latter has any effect on these discs, but I've been keeping both options turned on. The user can choose to download the subtitles, and there are options for "use high quality engine" and "deinterlacing". After trying several free ones, I ended up buying WinX DVD Ripper Platinum (not as costly as the precious metal platinum, though!). ![]() So I resorted to an internet search for "best DVD rippers with subtitles", or words to that effect. It ripped the sound and the subtitles from those, but not the video. ![]() It worked as expected on the first disc, but not on the others. Major breakthrough, at least for me! I'd had the WonderFox DVD Video Converter for a while, so yesterday I tried that one first when I was ready to rip the episodes, with the subtitles, from my First of the Summer Wine DVDs. So then I paid (not very much) for Aimersoft's products. I briefly tried Handbrake and concluded that you get what you pay for. These subtitles are permanently visible, but I'd always have them on even if there were a choice, so that's fine. ![]() The above technique doesn't produce closed captions. I've been I've been outputting those files as MP4s, again because it's the default and because my current DVD player will play that format. I then use Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate to merge the subtitles with the audio/video file. sst file (Sonic Scenarist) and I use that format because that's the format of the subtitle files I uploaded for editing. BTW, I use Subtitle Workshop version 6.0b to ensure that the show and hide times for each line of dialog are correct. Up to this point, I've ripped only the first two seasons, because those discs don't have closed captions and I wanted to caption them so I could fully enjoy viewing those episodes. I'm exploring further now because it would be useful to have a high-quality, compact back-up of my precious LOTSW discs to use for viewing. I haven't used it yet, mainly because it isn't the default and when I began doing this a few weeks ago I had no idea what I was doing. One of the possible output settings in the DVD Ripper is AVI. I have the Aimersoft family of DVD ripping/editing software. ![]()
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