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Originally Posted by Deathkillz

The problem is, all this technical "mumbo-jumbo" just goes over my head being quite new to this, hence using the good ol' ancient art of avi encoding. The stuff about using Mkvs or using certain compression types is alien to me and even if I know what they meant, I have no knowledge of how to apply the methods. Any good tutorials on the suggestions? My google skills are extremely rusty

mkvmerge GUI is literally just dragging and dropping files and pressing one (1) button, if you can't figure it out yourself you probably shouldn't be using a computer

Originally Posted by hizzy

Hi! First post!

I hope I'm putting this question in the right place! I'm a noob to fansubbing and I'm having some problems with subtitle timings. I'm trying to add subs to a Japanese DVD. I've ripped the DVD to my hard drive, and made an AVI of it. From there, I tried timing my subs to the AVI in a program called subtitle workshop, and everything looked good. When I added the subs to the DVD, though, the subs were messed up - They started off okay, but drifted out of sync as the film went on. Another thing I noticed was that the AVI & the DVD were not the same runtime - they were 4 seconds different. I can't seem to create an AVI that's the same runtime as the DVD.

I had been using subtitle workshop, but switched over to Aegisub after reading some posts on the forums. Any raw audio that I rip, though, is slightly longer than the DVD... sigh.

Thanks for the help!

making ntsc dvd subtitles that sync with the video is nontrivial and usually requires fucking with the pulldown flags (google pulldown.exe) and doing odd things in maestrosbt
it is generally not worth the effort, especially not since dvd is a dead technology that you shouldn't be using