look at
http://www.trustfm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1079
there is complete manual for create vobsub subtitles manualy
you need
subtitle workshop
substation alpha
maestro sbt use unicode
son2vobsub
let's start
1
be sure that your encoding for non Unicode application is set to your language
control panel > regional and language options > advanced tab after setting this option restart is required
2. open your subtitle in subtitle workshop and with ctrl+i correct errors which is present in almost all subtitles. some errors you need to correct manually and be aware that you find all subtitles which contains more then 40 characters (you can set this option in settings of program there is 3 places to be set)
3. after you refine your title save it but in ssa (substation alpha format save target as)
4 open substation alpha as first time you use this program set your style
find on bar style click on default and click on edit
set style as follows font you like Unicode size 20
alignment center
type subtitle
margins left 20 right 20 vertical 35
colors primary=secondary=tertiary= white shadow black you can use
color picker but color numbers must be same for first 3 colors
transparency do not touch
outline 2 shadow 0
opaque box unchecked
save this settings
open your refined subtitle
and just save it with f2
5 open maestrosbt
load your subtitle
be sure that you know fps of your divx because this define lot of settings
press rendering button and set (screen & bitmap size )
if you have 25 fps set
720x576 (pal dvd/.....
check -3 box
rest of options in this area do not touch
if you have 23.97 or 29 fps set
720x480 (ntsc dvd...
check -2 box
rest of options in this area do not touch
we are still in rendering options do no close
in color rendering set
only one set of text, anti......
in file format area
set windows 8bit bmp
in text area
set use style's
4:3
multibyte color page>system default
press ok and leave rendering option
press timing and set fps of your film twice same value
click edit and preview jut it check results
and after that press generate
save bitmaps in some folder for further use
6 now open son2vobsubmod
load your son file
set colors (click define your own palette)
first color white use color picker or if you want yellow type c29e1a
second color type 787f7f
third color black use color picker or type 108080
rest of colors MUST be all 0000000
click delete
click center 1 subtitle
click convert
after that you have two files idx and sub
be sure you name it same as your film is named
burn on some rewritable dvd for testing
and try if you have same effect there is a bug in application which txt2vobsub use for creation it is not authors mistake
if not ....
I know that this sound little complicated but it is not
for your knowledge you do not touch video with avisub