Hello all,
I had the
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko episodes in 16:1 avi format with seperate srt files. Here's my way of hardsubbing that worked for me. No special effects, but the overall quality is great on my hdtv.
1. Used VirtualDubMod with the filter VobSub. Also resized the screen to 4:3 for viewing on standard tvs.
2. I selected Xvid MPEG-4 as the video compression. The quality bar was set to maximum.
3. Used the job control feature to queue all episodes to process all night. I ended up with avi files that are hardsubbed and at least 1 gig each.
4. Used NeroVision to author the hardsubbed avi files.
That's it. Of course, having a fast computer to do the video compression helps.
I have 2 standalone computers just for video editing.