Principal sections in an SSA subtitle
A basic SSA subtitle:cript Info; This is a Sub Station Alpha v4 script. ; For Sub Station Alpha info and downloads, ; go to http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/ Title: Neon Genesis Evangelion - Episode 26 (neutral Spanish) Original Script: RoRo Script Updated By: version 2.8.01 ScriptType: v4.00 Collisions: Normal PlayResY: 600 PlayDepth: 0 Timer: 100,0000 4 StylesFormat: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, TertiaryColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, AlphaLevel, Encoding Style: DefaultVCD, Arial,28,11861244,11861244,11861244,-2147483640,-1,0,1,1,2,2,30,30,30,0,0vents Vent or vents may refer to: Science and technology Biology *Vent, the cloaca region of an animal *Vent DNA polymerase, a thermostable DNA polymerase Geology *Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water ...Format: Marked, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:01.18,0:00:06.85,DefaultVCD, NTP,0000,0000,0000,,Like an angel with pity on nobody
Advanced SubStation Alpha
Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) is a script for more advanced subtitles than SSA. It is technically SSA v4+. It is able to produce anything from simple texts to manual graphic editing used in karaoke. There are few programs designed to create these scripts. The main feature of ASS is it has more specifications than normal SSA, like in styles programming. For example, the above script changed into ASS:cript Info; Script generated by Aegisub ; http://www.aegisub.org Title: Neon Genesis Evangelion - Episode 26 (neutral Spanish) Original Script: RoRo Script Updated By: version 2.8.01 ScriptType: v4.00+ Collisions: Normal PlayResY: 600 PlayDepth: 0 Timer: 100,0000 Video Aspect Ratio: 0 Video Zoom: 6 Video Position: 0 4+ StylesFormat: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding Style: DefaultVCD, Arial,28,&H00B4FCFC,&H00B4FCFC,&H00000008,&H80000008,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0.00,0.00,1,1.00,2.00,2,30,30,30,0vents Vent or vents may refer to: Science and technology Biology *Vent, the cloaca region of an animal *Vent DNA polymerase, a thermostable DNA polymerase Geology *Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water ...Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.18,0:00:06.85,DefaultVCD, NTP,0000,0000,0000,,Like an Angel with pity on nobody\NThe second line in subtitle
Software support
Authoring software
Subtitle encoding software
Software tools to encode subtitle files into video containers (mkv, mp4, mov, ...):Players and renderers
Further reading
* *References
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