Suggestion: Movie File Dubbing and Sub-titles

[Joseph DiPerla]

Ok, I think its great that you can use AVI files and all, but I couldn't find a way to add sub-titles to the AVI file or even Dub over the sound.  Is there a possibility to add a script such as PlayMovieText(At point, Duration, String) ?

It would be very useful for me.

[stuh505]

There are options on the play video command to allow regular game sound to override the movie sound, and you can also play the video so that it does not take up the whole screen...so I imagine you could then display text below that for annotation.

However, don't you think it makes more sense to have the proper sound effects and subtitles be PART OF the avi?

[Gilbert]

I think he wanted to have different translations for the game and/or configurable subtitles, putting all these things into the AVI itself means you have to make different versions of the movie, which is not practical.

I think the subtitle thing is not possible at the moment, if you want timed subtitles below the movie which will change according to play time of it, since when playing movie engine control is blocked (unless you make a plugin for that, correct me if I'm wrong).

[Pumaman]

Subtitle support for PlayVideo is a possibility for a future version; it really depends on how many people would find it useful.

[Gregjazz]

Subtitle support for PlayVideo is a possibility for a future version; it really depends on how many people would find it useful.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Joseph DiPerla]

Well, I would definetly find it usefull. Also, to Stuh, I cant just edit an AVI file, it would really take too long to do.

What I wanted to do was for my simpsons game, where I take videos off the DVD and cut out the sound, but in order for the video then to make sense, I would need to add sub-titles to it. Thats the reason why I needed this feature.

I added this to the bug/feat tracker: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/tracker.php?action=detail&id=522