Extract PGS Subtitles for Editing

[rayward]

I have a BD movie ("Battle of Britain") which has some stray subtitles on the forced track that I want to delete. I have tried extracting the subtitle track with MKVToolNix, but this generates a .mks file that I cannot open with any editing app I can find for a Mac.

Ideally, I want to keep the original look of the subtitles, so I want to avoid converting to .srt.

Anyone have any Mac-friendly solutions?

TIA.

 

[Audit13]

PGS (graphics-based) subtitles and very different from SRT (plain text) subtitles.

Once PGS subtitles are embedded in the video, they are extremely difficult to remove and/or edit from the video stream.

 

[rayward]

PGS (graphics-based) subtitles and very different from SRT (plain text) subtitles.

Once PGS subtitles are embedded in the video, they are extremely difficult to remove and/or edit from the video stream.

Understood. I’m trying to edit them before I embed them in the video.

 

[Audit13]

Understood. I’m trying to edit them before I embed them in the video.

PGS subtitles are like an image rather than text. Changing them may require you to run them through an ocr program, make changes, and export back to PGS. The tough part will be getting them to match up with the voices.

 

[Nermal]

Changing them may require you to run them through an ocr program, make changes, and export back to PGS.

That shouldn't be required. I've edited some in the past, but naturally I can't remember which software I used at the moment! It may have been BDSup2Sub, but I'm not sure.

 

[Audit13]

That shouldn't be required. I've edited some in the past, but naturally I can't remember which software I used at the moment! It may have been BDSup2Sub, but I'm not sure.

I've never edited them but I know they are bitmap-based which is why I thought that ocr may be necessary.

 

[Nermal]

I suppose it depends on how you define 'edit'. I took 'stray' subtitles to mean that they're either in the wrong place or appear at the wrong time. Fixing either of those would only require moving or retiming the whole image, not modifying the image itself. Of course, if there are problems with the actual text then things are more complicated.

 

[HDFan]

I have a BD movie ("Battle of Britain") which has some stray subtitles on the forced track

An MKV of the file doesn't play properly in the new Mac beta Infuse? Not sure why you are going to all of this trouble when you can just let Infuse (or Plex) handle the subtitles if you have an MKV rip of the original BD. You choose which ones you want to use, or none.

 

[rayward]

Ignore

 

[rayward]

I suppose it depends on how you define 'edit'. I took 'stray' subtitles to mean that they're either in the wrong place or appear at the wrong time. Fixing either of those would only require moving or retiming the whole image, not modifying the image itself. Of course, if there are problems with the actual text then things are more complicated.

Correct. There are some that are superfluous, that I want to delete...that's all.

 

[rayward]

An MKV of the file doesn't play properly in the new Mac beta Infuse? Not sure why you are going to all of this trouble when you can just let Infuse (or Plex) handle the subtitles if you have an MKV rip of the original BD. You choose which ones you want to use, or none.

My rip plays just fine, and the subtitles are exactly how they are supposed to be. However, for some reason, they decided to include subtitles for place signs, used as location-establishing shots, which are simply a duplication and so mildly annoying.

Example: