Creating Subtitles for Existing DVD

Hello,
I am just planning some investments and I am thinking about buying FCP Studio.
But the frist project we should be working on is subtitling a collection of training DVD's.
The lectures on them are in english and they now should be subtitled in some other languages.
If we would have produced all of the DVD's from scratch this would be a easier job.
Now my question: Do we have to convert all the movies back and re-create a DVD menu or is there a other way to add subtitles to existing DVD's. The DVD's from our customer are not encrypted, so we don't have any original material, the only thing we can work from are the DVD's them self.
As we also plan to create our own movies in the future FCP would be a good program, but do you think we could do the above job with just this software?
Would be glad to read som inputs from others and there experiences!
Regard to who ever reads this
Django

You can't add anything to an already burned DVD. It is read only.
Copy the contents of the DVD's VIDEO_TS folder to your computer.
Use [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.squared5.com] to demux the VOB files to MPEG 2 and AC3 audio files. Bring those into DVD Studio Pro and re-author the disk.
Now you can add subtitles, either by using the DVD SP interface or a plain text file.
The text file should use the following formatting:
$FontName = Arial
$FontSize = 24
//If you need to include comments, place them on their own line, preceded by a forward slash, a space, then another forward slash like the example here. This text will not be superimposed over the video. Sample formatting for subtitles is as follows:
00:00:12:04 , 00:00:14:12 , This is a subtitle...
00:00:16:14 , 00:00:19:08 , ...followed by another subtitle.
//Comments can also be placed between subtitles.
00:00:22:08 , 00:00:26:15 , This is the next subtitle.
The file should NOT saved as Rich Text (.rtf)
It MUST be saved as Plain Text (.txt)
+Note: If you specify a font to use, no subtitle+
+clips will appear if the font is not found on the computer that will be encoding the DVD. The font must be installed as a Mac OS X font— Mac OS 9 fonts are not used.+

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