buring DVD subtitles

I try to burn FF7AC on DVD in a movie format with subtitles,
what i have is just the .avi and .sub file
but as far as i know not even Nero 6 vision can do this.  I was wondering
if there a program that can burn avi into DVD movie while adding subtitles
to it at the same time
Thanks!

You have two approaches - one, add "hard" subtitles to the video and burn that to DVD, two - add "soft" subtitles that can be turned on and off, just like on professionally authored DVDs.

The first is the easiest, and you need Virtualdub and a subtitle overlay plugin. Get both from virtualdub.org. Load the .AVI file, add the subtitle filter, set the audio to direct stream copy, set the video to re-encode and choose an appropriate codec (XVID, probably), then save the AVI as a different output file. Burn that to DVD.

The second option is a bit more technical, but produces better results. Some DVD authoring packages can import text subtitle files and render them as the subpictures required for soft DVD subtitles (I use Adobe Encore 1.5 for this - very good package, but it screws the timing on the subtitles, so have Subtitle Workshop on hand to tweak them). A few other packages support subtitles too, but it's not really a standard feature on the cheapo packages that come with DVD burners (as these are really meant for putting home videos and such on DVD).

whoa! i'm gonna try that tonight w/ hard sub, thanks a ton

i _must_ convert avi to vob or bup file in order for it to become DVD video, right?

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Yes, that's usually the longest part of making DVDs since it's so computationally intensive. The video has to be resized to one of a very few standard resolutions for DVD, and re-encoded in MPEG-2. Depending on the speed of your computer, the encoder you use, the level of compression and the number of encoding passes, this can take longer even than the length of the material you're encoding. Some DVD packages will accept any resolution of AVI file as an input and do the encoding itself, some require the AVI file to be the proper resolution, and some require you to have converted the video to mp2/mpg streams, or even .vob/.ifo files. I'm not sure how well Nero Vision performs in this respect, but I think it does do the encoding and resizing for you, so it should be pretty simple.