watching fansubs on your tv -subtitle problem

[aimeekitty]

Hey, does anyone have any suggestions?

I have a dvd player that lets me watch computer filed fansubs (like divx and mov files, etc...) But the trouble is, the subtitles are so low on most fansubs that they get cut off by the TV screen (tv cutoff).

Does anyone have a solution for processing the fansub movie files so that they have a box around them or something... (like letterboxing) in order that the subtitles aren't at the very bottom of the screen?

or any solution to get those subtitles not so low, really.

I have iDVD and Adobe Premeire

Comments

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Our TV has some sort of hard-to-find menu option for changing to letterbox mode which fixes subtitle problems like that, but it IS a hard-to-find option, dang-it... (I didn't even know it existed until a friend came over and fixed our subtitle problem for us!)

Maybe your TV has an option like that too?

[lokabrenna.livejournal.com]

Ditto to the above comment.
Sozz burnt some fan-subbed stuff to a DVD, and in order to be able to see it properly she had to change the format through some wacky TV/DVD-player menu that was really confusing. It worked, though!

[tacohime.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem. Our TV has a few different viewing options, but the best way (which is also the slowest) is to re-encode the video to fit within the TV-safe boundaries. That, and to yell at fansubbers to stop assuming that people just watch subs on their computers.

As to how this is done, I will ask my boyfriend.

[slai.livejournal.com]

Hi Aimee,

I have the same problem with some of my bootleg copies of the live action Sailor Moon TV show. One of the DVD players that I have though has an option to shrink the overall screen. It only shrinks it via set percentages (i.e. 50%, 20%, etc.), but it does allow me to see those 'cut-off' subtitles. It's harder to read, but that's the only solution I have available ;(!