Innocent Blood English Subtitle Tracks issues.

[Doctor M]

I've had various version of Innocent Blood over the years. The one I had the longest was a DVD conversion I made of the PAL European extended cut converted to NTSC with full menus and everything.

I started watching the Warner Archive Blu-ray reconstruction of the European cut and turned it off after 20 minutes. The English subtitles are abbreviations of what's being said. I was able to check the German release and they have the same subtitle tracks (but much worse video).

Outside of doing an OCR from the DVD, checking and rechecking to make sure they're perfect .SRT and then converting them to BD SUP files... is there an easier or better way?

I don't like any of the answers and considering sticking with the DVD.

[Beber]

That's what subtitles are supposed to be, you know: a shorter adaptation of what's being said. Subtitles are not transcriptions word for word. There are limitations such as a certain number of characters to be displayed per line, a perceivable interval between 2 successive subs, a certain amount of characters readable per second, and when done properly, they also have to be in sync with the flow of the delivery while following the editing cuts. Now maybe the ones on the DVD are better nonetheless, I have not seen them, I don't know. In that case, yeah, I guess you'll have to rip them, proofread after the OCR and then sync them to your other video, convert them into .ass and then to .sup with Bronan's wonderful tool as I do regularly.

[Doctor M]

Okay. Although I'm complaining, odds are good I'll eventually do it.