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Help! I need some advice...
I'm making a plain ISS->Cape Canaveral reentry video (nothing fancy).
What I've done so far:
- I captured my reentry in Orbiter, pausing it here and there to change visuals, camera angles and such.
- I appended and joined the several 4Gb files chunks Fraps captured using Virtualdub.
- In Virtualdub I removed these paused sequences (taking care of selecting start and end keyframes), and I saved the resulting file (compressing it with h.264). What I have in the end, as total number of frames, is a bit less than the simple "sum" of Fraps chunks.
- I started adding subtitles to the compressed video with Subtitle Workshop and a at a certain point (the horror!) I realized that I originally appended one of the Fraps files twice (4 minutes and something)!
- I kept on adding subtitles, syncing them to the end, ignoring the 4 minutes in excess, thinking that I'd cut them afterwards. So I had a subtitle file with a first half of text, a "hole" of 4 no-text-minutes, and a second half of text.
- In Virtualdub I took note of the start and end keyframes containing the take to be cut, and wrote down its duration.
- In Subtitle Workshop I "subtracted" this duration from the subtitles second-half, to drag them back.
Now to the problem:
I open the video in Virtualdub and I cut the 4 minutes extra take (keyframes selected).
I add subtitles (which now contain the right timecodes) and the sync messes totally out exactly after the cut I made in the video. They just jump ahead, but according to the SSA file there shoud appear some other text...
What should I do? Please, help a desperate movienoob!
And a little side-request:
If everything went well, I had saved the (alreay compressed) subtitled video in h.264 again...how can I avoid this double compression?
I'm making a plain ISS->Cape Canaveral reentry video (nothing fancy).
What I've done so far:
- I captured my reentry in Orbiter, pausing it here and there to change visuals, camera angles and such.
- I appended and joined the several 4Gb files chunks Fraps captured using Virtualdub.
- In Virtualdub I removed these paused sequences (taking care of selecting start and end keyframes), and I saved the resulting file (compressing it with h.264). What I have in the end, as total number of frames, is a bit less than the simple "sum" of Fraps chunks.
- I started adding subtitles to the compressed video with Subtitle Workshop and a at a certain point (the horror!) I realized that I originally appended one of the Fraps files twice (4 minutes and something)!
- I kept on adding subtitles, syncing them to the end, ignoring the 4 minutes in excess, thinking that I'd cut them afterwards. So I had a subtitle file with a first half of text, a "hole" of 4 no-text-minutes, and a second half of text.
- In Virtualdub I took note of the start and end keyframes containing the take to be cut, and wrote down its duration.
- In Subtitle Workshop I "subtracted" this duration from the subtitles second-half, to drag them back.
Now to the problem:
I open the video in Virtualdub and I cut the 4 minutes extra take (keyframes selected).
I add subtitles (which now contain the right timecodes) and the sync messes totally out exactly after the cut I made in the video. They just jump ahead, but according to the SSA file there shoud appear some other text...
What should I do? Please, help a desperate movienoob!
And a little side-request:
If everything went well, I had saved the (alreay compressed) subtitled video in h.264 again...how can I avoid this double compression?
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