Posted by Ken Maltby on 11/15/48 11:39

"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I find Bob somewhat tiresome to listen to. He's the kind of newbie
> that learns just a bit to be able to spout off bordeline correct but
> cumbersome statements that people can't quite understand. Since he's
> really unwilling to do anything more than a "1-step" process, it's
> almost pointless to discuss anything with him.
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> -goro-
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This is a great subject for Bob's little games. He can play off
the confusion in the meaning of the term "Subtitle". You are
most likely correct that he hasn't discovered the facts of the
situation, but he is certainly taking advantage of it.

Most any video editor with graphic capabilities can "embed"
text "over" the existing video. (Text or anything else, under the
video would be unseen. ) You can build a video made up of
many images, moving or static, one on top of the other. For
the most part text, that is "embedded" or applied to a video during
its construction/editing, are called "Titles". Editing programs often
provide for a number of "Title Effects" that present the text in a
number of interesting ways; from a simple static display, to the
text bouncing all over the screen. One display method is the
"Ticker" or a stream of text across the screen.

To most people any text that appears in the movie and presents
the dialog is a "Subtitle".

But in the discussion of video encapsulation methods, "Subtitle"
has a larger meaning. To say that a file type supports "Subtitles"
doesn't refer to video where the image includes text, but to a
separate selectable text image that can be made to appear over
the video.

So when Bob says that he can make an AVI file that will have
"Subtitles" by "embedding" the text into the video, he is accurate in
the first sense but totally wrong in the second sense. This is a
situation he thrives on.

Debunking Bob's slander of perfectly good software could be an
unending endeavor, but it is at least occasionally necessary to
provide some protection for those who might be swayed by his
arguments.

Luck;
Ken

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