Subtitles are too complex.

I' am making a DVD using all image files from CaptionMax. See post from yesterday:stevenl, "Image Subtitles." #1, 10 Apr 2006 4:34 pm </cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bbf64ae/0>

Anyway in just a test of the whole subtitle thing I only imported 1 subtitle track and tried to burn a folder and/or image file and got a message telling me that my one track is too complex. I'm going to need seven more, so if you think it's complex now??? All I did is set my first play to Timeline 1 with the one track set to display. Now, I have another timeline in the project that I set as the end action of the first with its track set to display. Can there be an issue in that the two timelines are different aspects 1 is 16x9 and 2 is 4x3?

I don't think that my problem should be anything related to this thread:ivansull, "EncoreDVD 2.0 Subtitles" #10, 21 Mar 2006 10:46 pm </cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bbe41ef/10>
since my subtitles are all index .tif files that are already as small as they're going to get. I've also used these type of files in our Sonic DVD Fusion system many times and never had this kind of issue.

I've read about other Encore issues with subtitles, but most of them seem related to text subtitles, what issues (if any) are there with image files?

Thanks,

Steven

Steven,

The "too complex" error is probably the one mentioned in post #5 of the "EncoreDVD 2.0 Subtitles" thread. This is not an Encore issue, but a limitation set by the DVD-Video specification. It doesn't matter whether the subtitles are imported via a text script or as bitmap images; if any (horizontal) line exceeds 1440 bits it exceeds the spec maximum.