Text Subtitles (.ASS) to PGS

[Doctor M]

Anyone have recommended software for generating Blu-ray subtitles from a text based source?

I'm getting ready to convert some custom subs for The Fighting Seabees so I can mux it and burn a disc.
I realized the software I've been using is PunkGraphcStream from 2010 and there hasn't been any updates since then.

[BusterD]

I don't think I ever got PunkGraphcStream to work right, but sub2bd works better than easySUP in my experience:
https://fanrestore.com/thread-2075.html

[Doctor M]

I take it back, I realize I was primarily using GoSUP for a while. PunkGraphicStream works well with more dynamic styled subs.
Haven't tried easySUP or sub2bd.

[Doctor M]

I take it back again. I forgot both easySUP and GoSUP are from MultiAVCHD. easySUP had issues and I found that GoSUP was pretty much the best.
I use these settings:

Code:

Arial 45pt
Bottom Offset: 45-75  (45 right near bottom, 75 is common height for Disney BDs and films with matting)
Font White with Black Outline
No Opacity (slider to the far right)
Shadows & alignment middle for the sliders.

Format: Sup/PGS
Resolution: 1080p
Framerate: 23.976

I'll see about comparing output between this and sub2bd.
Edit:
I like the default settings of sub2bd a bit better. Also GoSUP didn't recognize the line breaks in the .SSA file.

I'll stick with sub2bd for now. Seems fine.

[velocity]

The best tool that I know of for ASS is SUPer. It handles even the advanced effects fine, and is fully Blu-ray compliant.

https://github.com/cubicibo/SUPer

Do note that you need to specify the font and positioning in the ASS file itself (using e.g. Aegisub), and that you need to have the fonts used installed in your system.

[BusterD]

Hmm, doesn't seem like SUPer works perfectly with Japanese captions since I got a bunch of cut-off images in a test, but otherwise seems promising.

[velocity]

The developer is pretty responsive, you could try and send him a sample to see if he can fix it.

[BusterD]

Right, was thinking about doing that, but I have to put some time aside and make sure it's not an issue on my end.