The Official DVD Subtitles Thread

[Jim Ballard]

[Jim Ballard]

Doing the job Toho should have been doing, basically. As we all know (unfortunately), Toho's Region 2 DVD don't contain English subtitles. Even with the region coding and high price mark aside, the lack of English subtitles are generally the reason most people don't buy the discs. So that's what we're here to fix. Here you can download FREE English subtitles for your Region 2 Godzilla DVDs. These subtitles can either be viewed on your PC by using a program called "DVD Subber", or made to use a DVD-R backup of your own. Provided in this thread is all the information you need for watching Toho's great looking DVDs, subtitled in English.

[Jim Ballard]

All DVD-R subtitles for Region 2 DVDs:
http://www.ultramanforum.com/subtitles/dvd-r/

# Atragon.ssa
# Battle In Outer Space.ssa
# Climax Stories Ultraman Nexus.ssa
# Destroy All Monsters.ssa
# Ebirah Horror Of The Deep.ssa
# Evil of Dracula.ssa
# Frankenstein Conquers The World.ssa
# Frankenstein vs. Baragon.ssa
# Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster.ssa
# Godzilla 2000.ssa
# Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.ssa
# Godzilla Final Wars.ssa
# Godzilla Mothra & King Ghidorah.ssa
# Godzilla Raids Again.ssa
# Godzilla Tokyo SOS.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Biollante.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Gigan.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Hedorah.ssa
# Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Megalon.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Mothra.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla.ssa
# Godzilla's Revenge.ssa
# Godzilla.ssa
# Gorath.ssa
# Human Vapour.ssa
# Invasion Of The Astro Monsters.ssa
# King Kong Escapes.ssa
# King Kong vs. Godzilla.ssa
# Lake of Dracula.ssa
# Mothra vs. Godzilla.ssa
# Mothra.ssa
# Mysterians.ssa
# Rodan.ssa
# Son of Godzilla.ssa
# Terror Of Mechagodzilla.ssa
# The Return Of Godzilla.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 1.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 2.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 3.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 4.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 5.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 6.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 7.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 8 - Ep29 Directors Cut.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 8.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 9.ssa
# Ultraman Nexus Volume 10.ssa
# Vampire Doll.ssa
# War Of The Gargantuas.ssa



All DVD-R subtitles for Region 1 DVDs (to correct "dubtitles":
http://www.ultramanforum.com/subtitles/dvd-r/Region1/

# Godzilla Mothra & King Ghidorah.ssa
# Godzilla Tokyo SOS.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II.ssa
# Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.ssa



A selection of alternatives for DVD Subber are still available at:
http://www.ultramanforum.com/subtitles/subber/

But please note that I will no longer continue to make any new DVD Subber files or corrections to old ones. DVD Subber is an outdated program. Almost everyone who bought a PC in the last 5 years has a DVD burner and can make DVD-R backups with blank discs that cost pennies.

[Jim Ballard]

"DVD Subber" is a unique program that allows you to quickly and easily watch your DVDs on your PC with additional that weren't originally included on the disc. The process does not alter the disc, nor will your require a DVD-RW drive. The program simply plays your disc alongside a subtitle file on your hard drive.

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Step 1. First, you will need to go and download the FREE program "DVD Subber 2" (3.7mb). This is a software DVD player for your computer which has built in subtitle viewing and editing functions. This will enable you to watch your DVD on your computer, while playing additional subtitles you've download from the site.



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Step 2. Once you've downloaded the file, double-click on the file and follow the basic installation instructions.



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Step 3. If you haven't already, you'll need to download the subtiles. Browse until you find the DVD you wish to play subtitles with. When you do, click the download link that is for "DVD Subber".



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Step 4. Extract the subtitle file out from the zip. If you do not have Windows XP, you will need to use in order to do this.



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Step 5. Insert the DVD into your DVD-ROM drive. Now double-click on the DVD Subber icon to start the program. In the control panel, select the "Open" button next to "Profile". A new window will pop-up. Browse to the subtitle file you extracted from the ZIP and open it.



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Step 6. Now press the "Play" button on the control panel. Your DVD will work as normal, but when you watch the main feature the new English subtitles will appear! Feel free to skip chapters on the disc, and the subtitles will always stay in sync with the video.



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Help! My audio/video isn't working!
This is usually a problem if you have more than two other DVD players installed on your computer. By default, DVD Subber automatically chooses video and audio filters from any of the previous DVD players you have installed. In some cases, these filters can conflict with each other. To solve this, start up DVD Subber and press Ctrl+C to bring up the configuration screen. You will see a menu on the left. Under the section called "Directshow Config" select the first option "DVD Graph". On the main screen on the right, you'll see a section called "DVD Decoder". The drop-down menus below it will be greyed out. Untick the box that says "Use automatic DVD decoder selection". Now change the two drop-down menus so they both display similar filters (in my example, I set both of mine to "CyberLink"). Then just hit the "Save" button at the bottom. Now try playing your DVD again. If it still doesn't work, go back and change the two settings to different filters.



The video looks really small! What gives? How do I make it big?
To view the video in fullscreen mode, you can either right-click on the video and select the "Switch Fullscreen" option, or simply press the "Z" key on your keyboard. You can do the same again to leave fullscreen mode at any time.

[Jim Ballard]

This guide will show you how to create your own backup DVD of your DVD discs, and include removable English subtitles. All the programs used during the course of this guide are freeware - you do not have to worry about paying or trial versions - it's all free. Props must go out to the guys who put in hundreds of their own hours into creating them for us all.

This guide, and it's instructions on how to create a backup DVD, are intended for your own private use only. By law, you may only create 1 (ONE) personal backup of your DVD for your own private use. Resale and unauthorised distribution of these discs and/or the subtitle scripts is strictly prohibited.

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Step 1. Most of the Godzilla DVDs are dual layered - this means they hold 9GB of information. Most normal DVD-R's only hold 5GB, and few recordable DVD drives are able to write dual layers anyway. This means we will have to loose some things, and do a little compressing. This is where a great program called "DVD Shrink" comes into play. Hop on over to the and download the latest stable version. Extract the setup file from the ZIP and follow the basic installation instructions.



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Step 2. Start up "DVD Shrink" and put the original DVD that you want to subtitle into your drive. For the purpose of this guide, I'm going to make myself a subtitled copy of "King Kong vs. Godzilla". Now in "DVD Shrink", press the "Open Disc" icon in the top-left corner. A new window will pop-up asking you to open a DVD disc. With the drop-down menu, select the drive you've just put the DVD into, then hit OK. "DVD Shrink" will now load up information about the DVD.



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Step 3. Since we're not copying the entire disc (we won't have enought space!), select the "Re-author" icon at the top. On the panel on the right, select the "DVD Browser" tab. You should now see a list of material that's on the disc. Special features and menus are only going to waste space, so it's best to leave them out. Simply select the main movie file (check the "Duration" time if you're not sure). Either double-click on it or drag-and-drop it, and it should appear in the left panel (see image below).



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Step 4. Highlight the selection in the left panel, then click on the "Compression Settings" tab. By default, all the Audio tracks and Subpictures (subtitles) will be selected, but that's simply wasting space. After all, we want a good looking video, right? Untick all the options you don't want. I don't want Japanese subtitles, so I'll remove them. "King Kong vs. Godzilla" has a lot of audio tracks too - it has some isolated music tracks of Ifukube's score, some audio commentaries with the staff, etc. Keep in mind the more audio tracks you keep, the more the video quality will have to be compressed. That's why it's best to just stick to one track. Personally, I'm going to stick with Toho's great 5.1 remix. You'll notice the video compression percentage changing as you untick more and more options. Mine ended up at 89.9% - not too bad, that's only about 10% compression on the video. Should look very good!



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Step 5. Now go to the "Edit" menu and choose "Preferences". A new window will appear. Click on the "Output Files" tab, and untick the option that says "Split VOB files into 1GB size chunks". Once you've unticked it, press "OK".



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Step 6. Now press the "Backup" icon at the top. A new window called "Backup DVD" will appear. Under the "Target Device" tab you'll need to set a folder where your DVD files will be put. To keep things easy for myself, I've set it to simply put them in a folder called "King Kong DVD" on my desktop. Finally, untick the box that says "Create VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders".



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Step 7. Next select the "DVD Region" tab. If it's not already selected, set it to "Region Free". After all, what's the point in limiting ourselves?



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Step 8. Now go to the "Quality Settings" tab. You'll see two checkboxes, "Perform deep analysis before backup to improve quality" and "Compress video with high quality adaptive error compensation". These are both optional, but I highly recommended using both. It may take a little longer (depending on the speed of your computer), but the results will be far better. For the final option in the drop-down menu, I'd suggest simply leaving it on "Sharp (default)". When you're done, hit the "OK" button.



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Step 9. The backup process will now begin. Depending on your computer speed and the length of the movie, this could take anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours. Once the Deep Analysis (if you chose this) and Encoding have finished you will receive a message telling you the process was a success. Click OK, and then close "DVD Shrink".



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Step 10. Now you'll need to download a program called "VobEdit". No installation is required for this program. Once you've downloaded the ZIP, just extract it to your desktop and double-click on the icon to start the program.



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Step 11. In "VobEdit", click on the "Open" icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen. In the new window, browse to the folder where you told "DVD Shrink" to save the files (for me, it was my folder on my desktop called "King Kong DVD"). Select the .vob file and press "Open".



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Step 12. Press the "Demux" button at the bottom of the screen, and a new window will appear called "Dialog". Check the boxes near the bottom called "Demux all Video streams", "Demux all Audio streams", and "Split on new Vob-ID", then press "OK".



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Step 13. A new Save As window will appear. To keep things easier for yourself, save this into a different folder. I put them in a new folder on my desktop called "Demuxed Kong". Hit the "Save" button and the demuxing process will begin. Once the process is completed, close "VobEdit".



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Step 14. You'll now need to get "", a program which will put the video, audio and subtitles all back together for us ready to be burnt to a DVD. Once you've downloaded the setup file, run it and follow the basic installation instructions.



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Step 15. If you haven't already, you'll now need to download the subtitles for the DVD you're subtitling. Browse down to the correct disc, and download the file that is "For DVD-R". Extract the .ssa file out of the ZIP and put it on your desktop.



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Step 16. Start up "DVDAuthorGUI", and click on the "Add Title" button in the top-left.



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Step 17. A new window will appear titles "Select Video Stream". Browse to the folder where you save the files to with "VobEdit". For me, this was my "Demuxed Kong" folder on my desktop. You should see a .m2v file there. Select this file and choose "Open".



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Step 18. Immediately, the window will change to "Select Audio Stream". You'll automatically be in the same folder. This time select your .ac3 file and press "Open" again.

NOTE: If you decided to keep more than one audio track, you will see more than one listed here. Just select the top one for now.



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Step 19. Back at the main screen, highlight your "title" in the main panel, then go to the "Extras" menu and choose "Add/Edit Subtitles".

NOTE: If you were one of those that had more than one audio track, look at the "Add Audio Stream" option in this menu. You can use this to add the remainder of your audio tracks now.



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Step 20. A new window called "Subtitles" will open up. Click on the "Add Text Subtitle" button to continue.



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Step 21. In the new window, browse to your desktop and open your .ssa subtitle script. Once taken back to the "Subtitles" window, just click on the "Accept" button in the bottom-right.



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Step 22. Finally, press the "Author DVD" button in the top-right corner.



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Step 23. You'll be asked to create a folder where you want the DVD files to be stored. As always, I'm going to put it on my desktop. I type in the name "Final DVD", then hit the "Save" button.



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Step 24. Once "DVDAuthorGUI" has finished, press "OK", then close the program. Before you burn this to a DVD-R, you might want to try it out on a software player on your computer first. If something has gone wrong, why waste a perfectly good disc? Open the main IFO (located within the VIDEO_TS folder within your "Final DVD" folder) up in your DVD player (I'm using PowerDVD XP). The subtitles won't come on automatically, so remember to turn them on!



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Step 25. If all's working, it's finally time to burn it to disc. This part I really can't guide you on to well, since I don't know what burning software you have. Since "Nero Burning Rom" is the most popular, this is what I'll use for this example. But if you own a Recordable DVD drive, I would hope you'd know how to burn a disc anyway. So if you're not a Nero user, the guide ends here for you. If you are, and would like some help, start up Nero! You should automatically see the Compilation Wizard when Nero starts. Use the drop-down menu in the top left, and change the disc type to "DVD".



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Step 26. From the list on the left, choose "DVD-Video", the click on the "New" button.



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Step 27. You will see two panels. On the left is the DVD you're compiling. On the right is a file browser. Double-click on the "VIDEO_TS" in your DVD compilation screen to enter that folder.



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Step 28. Now in the File Browser on the right, find your "Final DVD" folder, and go into the "VIDEO_TS" folder inside that. Select all the files inside that folder, and drag-and-drop them into your DVD compilation on the left.



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Step 29. Now go to the "Recorder" menu and select "Burn Compilation".



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Step 30. Now, enter a blank DVD-R disc into your DVD recorder, and hit that "Burn" button you've been waiting to press ever since you started reading this guide.

[Aaron Smith]

[Robert Saint John]

[Jim Ballard]

No probs. Thanks to great folks like David for their contributions!

06/5/05 Updates:
- "Mothra vs. Godzilla" (DVD Subber / DVD-R)
- "Godzilla vs. Megalon" (DVD Subber / DVD-R)
- "The Return Of Godzilla" (DVD Subber / DVD-R)
- "Godzilla 2000" (DVD-R)
- "Godzilla vs. Megaguirus" (DVD-R)
- "Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah" (DVD-R)
- "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla" (DVD-R)
- "Godzilla: Tokyo SOS" (DVD-R)

[akuash]

That is amazing! Thanks so much James!

[china]

[GodzFire]

[Xenorama]

[plyometrics]

[el-brazo]

@James Ballard:

Wow - thanks so much for doing this! :clap:

Finally I could watch the original versions of KING KONG VS. GODZILLA and GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER and understand them. It's like a dream come true. :Big-th-up:

[Joseph Goodman]

[Jim Ballard]

[smagal]

[Jim Ballard]

[JimPV]

Has anybody else had trouble with Ghidrah? A buddy and me (okay, him actually) have made beautiful DVD-R backups of my R2 Mothra vs. Godzilla and War of the Gargantuas discs, but he keeps getting an error message of some kind when he tries the same procedure (that worked so beautifully with the other two) with Ghidrah: The Three Headed Monster. Very strange.

Anybody?

[el-brazo]

@modelfan:

> Has anybody else had trouble with Ghidrah? A buddy and me
> (okay, him actually) have made beautiful DVD-R backups of
> my R2 Mothra vs. Godzilla and War of the Gargantuas discs,
> but he keeps getting an error message of some kind when he
> tries the same procedure (that worked so beautifully with
> the other two) with Ghidrah: The Three Headed Monster.

It's just a blind guess, but I think I remember that the Toho DVD of GTTHM was NTSC FILM (24 fps, not 30 fps). Perhaps the software your buddy is using has problems with this.

[JimPV]

[Gojira, Monster King]

[el-brazo]

[JimPV]

[Zombiezilla]

Unreal...simply unreal. I don't have any of the region 2 discs, but even I appreciate the work that you people put into this fandom. It's one of the things that makes being a "fanboy" so friggin' great!