Subtitles using dvd studio pro

Hellos everyone, i was wondering if anyone could tell me how can i add subtitles on dvd studio pro? how can i add the option subtitles or to add the subtitles to a dvd? is there like a tutorial on how to do this?

hi this is really easy to do in DVD SP.
first create a menu card for subtitle. in that have buttons like
ON, OFF, PLAY, MENU. as per your requirements
and you need to do small scripting works for ON & OFF
ON button scripting.
add new script from the tab.and in the script editor add the following script
set system streamst(subtitle stream1)(on)
jump(subtitle menu- play button)
jump can be as your choice. this script will activate the subtitle
OFF button scripting.
add new script from the tab.and in the script editor add the following script
set system streamst(subtitle stream1)(off)
jump(subtitle menu- play button)
this script will deactivate the subtitle stream.
make sure you assign the scripts to the desired buttons
regards
senthil
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