DVD Encore subtitles

I built a rather complex project with DVD Encore v-2.0. Three languages - English-German -Hebrew. I use FAB script oriented subtitles (pictures) The whole project is appr. 3 hours.
When I try to either make a folder or imagefiles the programme says: "creating subtitles failed ..." or "Out of memory" . In other words all my work (took me about a week) is in vain. I phoned Adobe Technical Support, but nobody seems to understand what the problem is or they denie that it exists att all!!!!
Please is there anybody who can solve my problem.
Best regards,
Janjens Molenaar, Blaricum, Holland

Have you tried to compile the project without any subtitles? Have you tried with English, then German, then Hebrew to see if it's just one particular language that is not being accepted?
I've been working on a series of music DVDs over the last 6 months that are fairly subtitle intensive. I'm using 3 languages (English, Spanish, and Italian) with 2 copies of each subtitle (one at 100% from the top and one at 0% from the top) to give the user the choice of where they want to view the words.
I'm using a 32 pt Arial regular font for all languages and haven't had any difficulties since I started creating my STs in Lemony Subtitler. I export them in Encore 1.01 text format and they import perfectly into Encore 2.0.
When I first started trying to create STs within Encore, I got a lot of out or memory type errors and save project now errors, which is very unusual for my machine. I suspect these errors occurred as the result of constant back and forth tweaking of each ST segment to make sure it lines up properly with the music. Apparantly, Encore doesn't like all that stopping and starting and moving STs up and back on the timeline. I never lost anything, but it scared me enough (I know how long it takes to create accurate subtitles) to buy a good subtitler like Lemony.
Since then, all has been fine, not to mention that I can very easily store txt versions of all my subtitles from Lemony for later editing. Encore doesn't save subtitles in this way since it automatically converts them to graphics.
Peace, BJ

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/129533/subtitle_codes.png
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