[MacDV] Size and position of subtitles/subpictures in a DVD

[Michael Winter]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Aaron wrote:

> He said it was because he needed to have the words describing the  
> various interviewees in the different languages as well, and that  
> subtitles could only be in a limited area at the bottom of the screen.

I can only say that I've seen subtitles at the top of the screen on a  
couple commercial DVDs when the opening credits were being displayed  
near the bottom. I have no idea how that is done though. Something  
else I've noticed is that while viewing widescreen movies on my  
regular TV, sometimes subtitles appear in the black area beneath the  
image (which I think is great), though most of the time the subtitles  
appear over the bottom part of the video. Just pointing out that  
there must be different ways of doing subtitles.

-Mike