Subtitling in Kanji/Katakana/Hiragana...

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Subtitling in Kanji/Katakana/Hiragana...

Postby Bushido Philosopher » Fri Aug 30, 2002 5:14 am

Is there a program where I can input Japanese characters into video?

I prefer something like Sub Station Alpha so I can work with it in Virtual Dub, but if I must then gimme the tool if it isn't anyway.

Thanks for your support. :)

(Also I would like a little explanation to work it if it doesn't give one, of course.)
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Postby ErMaC » Fri Aug 30, 2002 5:29 am

Most recent versions of the SSA plugin for virtualdub support Unicode.
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Postby Zarxrax » Fri Aug 30, 2002 10:33 am

Set your font to MS Gothic, set the font encoding to 128, and your set.
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Fri Aug 30, 2002 1:00 pm

Ok two questions:

What the hec is Unicode? Need guide!!!

What do you mean font encoding? Where or what is that?

Sorry, now I'm a newbie all over again. :cry:
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Postby Mask of Destiny » Fri Aug 30, 2002 4:54 pm

What the hec is Unicode? Need guide!!!


ASCII (the original standard for text) is a 7-bit code, which allows for 128 different characters. This was later extended to an 8-bit code allowing for 256 characters. This still isn't enough for Kanji which has several thousand commonly used characters. The solution is unicode which uses 16-bits per character allowing a total of 65536 different characters.

Someone else will have to answer the SSA configuration question, as I've never messed with this tool and I've never tried inputting Japanese characters.
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Postby Zarxrax » Sat Aug 31, 2002 8:18 pm

The font encoding is defined on the style in your ssa file. It is the very last item on the style. For example here's what it looks like:

[V4 Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, TertiaryColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, AlphaLevel, Encoding
Style: Japanese,MS Gothic,15,65535,8421376,8388736,0,0,0,1,2,0,2,10,10,10,0,128

You just change the "0" on the very end to a "128"

As for typing in the unicode... thats a whole 'nother beast for you to figure out... I really have no idea how you create the characters from scratch... but here is what a bit of the stuff looks like:
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 01, 2002 4:58 pm

Another way to do it is to use a program you allready have that can write in that method and then copy and paste what you wrote into a transparent overlay on your video, although most programs cannot write in kanji and such they can still read the codec for it and put it on your video.
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Sun Sep 01, 2002 5:51 pm

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