Subtitles for foreign language characters

[FoamBanana]

Two questions really from a first time editor. Firstly, I am attempting to follow the instructions in the "ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing" sticky as far as I can, just to get a hand on the basics. I have hit my first snag when trying to use subtitles.

For my first project I selected Iron Man and at around the half hour mark, a member of the 10 rings speaks in a foreign language. So my question is which subtitle track would contain this sort of subtitle as it is a necessary subtitle rather than a hard of hearing subtitle.

Secondly, womble doesn't seem to have any support for subtitles so can anyone recommend a free/cheap/free trial available editor that handles subtitles that I could learn with?

[Dwight Fry]

Subtitles are a matter of DVD authoring, not editing. Unless you want them burnt into the video, in that case the title tool will do the trick.

[TMBTM]

If you are not making any other subtitles like French, german, etc. then I guess you can make hardcoded subtitles directly on your picture and not as a separate file. I don't know how womble is working, but usualy making a .png image with a text over a transparent background on photoshop then importing it on your editor above your video can work good enough. If your editor does not have a text option, then I think you could try this.

I you want to make separate subtitles files, like .srt for example. Then you can work with Subtitle Workshop.
but I only work with it at the very end of the fanediting process. I'm making an AVI version of my edit, import it on Subtitles Workshop, then go to the time marks where the subs should be, set the start and end time for each lines and save as .srt.
Then I use this .srt with DVD Lab pro when I make the final DVD authoring.

Hope it answers your question (?)

[FoamBanana]

Excellent responses guys. Much appreciated. Never even thought of hard coding the text over the image. Simple yet effective. Will do that at the end.

Cheers once again.