Hardsubbing Tutorial

[miyavimyv]

Background on Hardsubs:

Fansub teams release softsubs for people to use along with a video that it is timed to match. In my opinion, the reason why there are quite a bit of softsubs out there is because of the time it takes to hardsub and the fansub teams find it unnecessary and time consuming to provide Hardsubs and softsubs. This is of course my

Comments

[jenbowie]

First of all, I wanted to say thank you so very much for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it! I have been messing about with a number of programs trying to get something to work for a while to no avail.

Looks like everything goes well until literally the last step (File>Save as AVI). I get an error noting "statsfile not found". I attempted this whole process with two different vids from two separate groups so it appears there is something I'm still doing goofy (or something I've missed). It creates the SSA file and everything from what I can tell, and VirtualDub seems happy until that last step...

[miyavimyv]

Can you send me a Cap of what your screen looks like w/ the error? I just followed the steps exactly as I wrote them and it worked for me.

Also, the files that you're trying to hardsub, what types of files are they? Are they plain .avi files? I've tried to hardsub .rm (or real player files) and it doesn't work for me. I've never tried doing any hardsubbing on files other than .avi files.

Perhaps your codec wasn't XviD MPEG-4 Codec? *I'm sorry that I'm pulling at straws*

Here are the steps again in a more precise method and see if you might've missed something.

I will make a video for the steps and post it tomorrow if not tonight.

Let me know about the screencap of the error in the mean time.

[jenbowie]

After much tinkering around, *finally* figured out what the problem was. The VirtualDub was accidentally set to "Two Pass - 2nd Pass" on the Configure option under the Video Compression section. So in other words, it was looking for a file that had yet to be created to reference from. >.< I have no idea how it got on that setting, but setting it to Single Pass or for the first pass has worked. ^^

Thank you so much again for the time and effort you put into putting together this tutorial. I really appreciate it immensely! :D

[miyavimyv]

Crap!!!!!!!!

I forgot about configuring it. Its a one time deal and I completely forgot about it. I'll update this tut and I'm almost ready to post the video I made.

Sorry that it caused you problems >_

[jenbowie]

Hello,
i just want to say thanks to your detailed instruction of how to hard subs. I'm so glad that i stumble to this threat. i've been trying many times to hard subs in many diff ways and never been succeed. Yet, your way work like a charm !! thanks again !!

[miyavimyv]

Of course. I'm glad it helped you.

[ritagedyp]

 You use the same prog to extract the file, you can't just join them together like with hjsplit (although a coupla years ago I worked out a way of extracting the files by using a hex editor).