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Author Topic: DCP-o-Matic and "part time" subtitles Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-28-2016 01:11 PM                        I'm trying to convert a movie from Blu-Ray that has subtitles in only a few scenes where the characters don't speak English - but the subtitles don't show up on the resulting DCP. If I click the "Use subtitles" box in DCP-o-Matic, of course I get subtitles all the time. I assume this is because the part-time subtitles are on the blu-ray in various languages...how can I get those part-time English subtitles to show up in the DCP?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-28-2016 01:25 PM                     You would have to select the correct caption track. Assuming you are ripping with MakeMKV, there are options to only select "forced English" subtitles. You may end up with a few different subtitle tracks, but you would just have to preview it within DOM before making the DCP and see which track gave you what you wanted.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-28-2016 02:32 PM                        As Brad says, there is probably a different English hard-of-hearing subtitle track and a "translate the foreign dialogue only" subtitle track: the trick is to rip the BD such that you only take the subtitle track you want into the file that you then import into DCP-o-Matic. I have the full version of DVDFab, which makes doing this very easy and straightforward, but couldn't advise on any free options - sorry.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 08-28-2016 04:55 PM                     MakeMKV allows to choose between subs and forced subs - try the forced subs, or select a different subtile track. - carsten  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-28-2016 09:20 PM                        Here is the list that comes up in MakeMKV -- I have not changed any of the settings from when I created the first DCP (which rendered without the subtitles). It looks like all the "forced" options are checked...so apparently I need to uncheck something? Or is there something else I'm missing? A setting on DOM maybe?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-28-2016 09:41 PM                     DOM has a drop down menu to select which subtitle stream you need. Start it playing during a dialogue scene and keep going down the list one by one until you find one that DOESN'T have regular dialogue subtitles displaying on the preview window. Then you have to find out if it is just a subtitle stream of occasional dumb "director/cast/crew commentary" subtitles or actual subtitles that would've been burned into a film print, so be prepared to skip around the movie for quite a bit in the preview window.  |  IP: Logged Michael Putlack Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Fort Collins, Colorado Registered: Sep 2011 posted 08-28-2016 11:56 PM                        Mike, I think the subtitle box you should check is the PGS English (Forced Only) and uncheck the other english ones.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2016 02:29 PM                        Thanks guys, I got it figured out.  |  IP: Logged

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