Importing subtitles from an outside vendor

Here's a list of questons from our supplier.
what file format you’ll need from us: .tif or .bmp?
- navigation (script file) – .son, .sst, .stl or any other
- color scheme for subtitles:
o text
o edging
o aliasing
o background
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
G5 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Hi Brian
You don't need them as .bmp or .tif's (though you CAN have them as either I think). Just ask for them as .stl as this will happily import into DVD-SP. As for the other info you can actually easily change that using soemthing like Text Edit once you have the subs or indeed you can select one of the subs (once imported into DVD-SP) and change things like edging etc and then Apply to Stream.
Basically an .stl file is a text file with Timecode in and out references and the text of the subtitle. You can then import this directly inot DVD-SP. SP then "creates" the subs when you do a Build. If you have them as graphics then the .stl file has a timecode in and out and a reference to the relevant graphic and it's location. If you want yur subs to have a grey faded background box (as some subs do to lift them from the background) then you will have to have graphics
Usually when we create subtitles we don't worry about all that stuff like text. aliasing etc. and just make sure that the subtitles are correctly timecoded.
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