I have a simple, no menu, one timeline DVD project with a 96-minute video. I
just finished doing an english subtitle track, manually, with 907 separate
subtitles. I used all the default settings, except that I changed the font to 20
pt arial, used center justification and turned on safe areas. When a new
subtitle is created, a bounding box is automatically created that fits the safe
text area. All I did was type my text in trying to keep each as short as
possible, and moved on to create the next subtitle. It looked fine, but upon
building, I'm getting the "too complex" error.
I've read in this forum that reducing the size of the bounding box helps with
this, but no specifics are given as to what it should be reduced to.
Additionally, someone mentioned that all I had to do was change the
"outline to thick", by this, I assume he means change the stroke to
heavy, but that didn't work either (selected all subtitles and made the change,
to no avail). Lastly, it was suggested that too many characters in a subtitle
would cause this problem, but no one has said how many characters is too many.
Like I said, I kept my subtitles pretty short.
Now a new problem has emerged. Upon closing and reopening the project, now each
subtitle appears in a much smaller bounding box that's been moved to the upper
left corner of the monitor, outside the safe area. Even stranger is that when I
play the timeline, they appear normally. This makes it nearly impossible to edit
a subtitle. I assume this is a bug.
One other user indicated that the answer lies in reading something, by using a
little anim gif in his post. Harm? If you know something, please elaborate :)
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Today, I opened Encore after a computer restart. Apparently, the last subtitle
scheme I had saved was Verdana at 20 pt. Medium stroke. So for the hell of it, I
tried a build. For the love of God, it worked without getting the "too
complex" error.
Unfortunately, upon playing the dual-layer disc, I found that the subtitles were
in italics and that lots of the words at the ends of lines were cut off. Missing
letters and whole words sometimes.
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