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Subtitles for Dummies!

 
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nikki15



Joined: 02 Jun 2010

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:55 am    Post subject: Subtitles for Dummies! Reply with quote

Hi All!

In one of my elementary school classes we are reading Rapunzel and I'd really like to show the movie Tangled. I have downloaded the movie and the subtitles in .smi format. I am using a Mac OSX and VLC player, and can't seem to figure out how to play them together. I also would like to burn the movie onto a disc.

I'm not too great with computers and I have never used subtitles before, so if anyone knows how to solve my problem and could give me some directions it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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sheriffadam



Joined: 10 May 2010
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rename the files to be identical. eg tangled.smi and tangled.mkv or whatever.

Is GOM player available for mac? Thats Korean and loves subs!
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crescent



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You also need to make sure VLC's preferences are set to read Hangeul fonts.
By default, "Apple Gothic" and a few others will substitute well.
Google "VLC mac and korean font" for more details. I can't remember.
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bbonthec



Joined: 07 Nov 2007

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If that doesn't work, google for a different player. I had this problem a couple years ago. Seems like certain Korean subtitle fonts are really hard to get working on OSX. Not a fault of the OS, I'm sure, but rather a fault of the Korean computers being geared completely towards Microsoft products. (ie. Many Korean websites STILL only work with IE.)
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s4yunkim



Joined: 28 Dec 2008

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use MplayerOSX, set to a Korean encoding with a Korean font. It's a lot easier to read than VLC IMHO.
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nikki15



Joined: 02 Jun 2010

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for all the replies!

Unfortunately GOM player doesn't work for a Mac, I had already looked into that before I posted here.

I was able to get to work with VLC by changing the font, so thanks!

Does anyone know how to burn an avi and smi file together on a DVD?
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tatertot



Joined: 21 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nikki15 wrote:
Thanks for all the replies!

Unfortunately GOM player doesn't work for a Mac, I had already looked into that before I posted here.

I was able to get to work with VLC by changing the font, so thanks!

Does anyone know how to burn an avi and smi file together on a DVD?

You will first have to combine the files by re-encoding the video file to include the sub (creating a "hard-sub"). Then, if you want to play it on any DVD player, and not just a computer, you will have to change the format to a DVD compatible format. There are probably programs that can combine these steps, but I haven't tried to do this for a long time so I don't know what they would be called. I think you can use Handbrake to re-encode your file with the sub, though.
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nstick13



Joined: 02 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Likewise it's been a while since I was burning DVDs, but I think Toast will help with that in OS X.
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