I've been getting asked a lot how to lower subtitles so they aren't so high on your TV. Also note overscan ranges from severe to minimal so my settings might be too low/high for some it will take some tweaking on your part. I also posted this in the doom9 forum if for some reason you cant see this forum...
Go to FAVC folder > SubtitleCreator > Data
Open Profiles.xml in notepad
Scroll down to the two NTSC ones (if your using PAL I cant help you on the positions sorry)
For those you will see something like this:
<Profile Name="FAVC NTSC 4:3">
<Font Name="Trebuchet MS" Size="18" Style="Bold" Outline="5" />
<Window DistanceToLeftBorder="80" DistanceToTopBorder="380" Width="560" />
<Stretch Horizontal="100" Vertical="100" />
<LineHeight Value="100" />
<Formatting Lines="2" Wrap="True" VerticalAlignment="3" VerticalFont="False" />
</Profile>
<Profile Name="FAVC NTSC 16:9">
<Font Name="Trebuchet MS" Size="18" Style="Bold" Outline="5" />
<Window DistanceToLeftBorder="80" DistanceToTopBorder="380" Width="560" />
<Stretch Horizontal="100" Vertical="100" />
<LineHeight Value="100" />
<Formatting Lines="2" Wrap="True" VerticalAlignment="3" VerticalFont="False" />
Ok, so here is where you can change font, font size, style, border outline, etc. The setting you see up top are my settings and I find them to work the best for my subtitles. The font I use is something I found online recommended to me for this very use and it works good (the font isnt rough it looks smooth). If you dont have my font I'm told that Verdana also works very well for subtitles.
Save the xml file and now you can open up the subtitle program to view the profiles they should be changed. It's pretty hard to tell via the program though you kind of have to do a convert and burn to see if it looks good on your TV.
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People also are asking, "Why use MKV over AVI it seems like such a big hassle!?"
First off video quality is better from MKV's most are using H264 as their codec which is the "best of the best" codec-wise right now. Not only that but fansubbers have been getting pretty good with quality releases I'm starting to see a lot of 1280x720 resolution videos popping up which have VERY good quality to them and guess what? Most of those high resolution releases are MKV's.
Secondly fansubbers of shows often do not put emphases on placing their subtitles high enough in AVI files and this results in your subtitles getting chopped off on your TV even if you have overscan borders your TV might still clip them off if they are low enough.
This is why it is advisable to use H264 / MKV releases over Xvid or AVI releases because you rip the subtitles yourself and have the ability to adjust their position for your own TV so it's worth the few extra steps for a good DVD.
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Lastly people are asking about what program I use to convert .ASS files to .SRT
You can find it here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Subtitle_Workshop
Just open the .ass file and save it using SubRip (its in the list of icons) this will convert your .ass into a .srt