Simply making the box taller to compensate will suffice, but will look ugly because the subtitles baseline remains static: the single line subtitles will have more padding on the top than the bottom. This may be useful if you want the box to span the width.įfmpeg -i input -filter_complex "drawbox=w=iw:h=24:y=ih-28:t=max: ,subtitles=subs.ass" outputĭownside is that you have to account for line breaks or word wrapping for long subtitles. The drawbox filter can be used to create a background box. Thanks to sup and wm4 for the BorderStyle suggestion. Note that BorderStyle=4 is a non-standard value, so it may not work properly in all players. This will fill the bounding box background of each subtitle event. In the Style line change the value corresponding with BorderStyle to 4. Click on the shadow color to adjust the Alpha of the shadow color to your desired transparency level.Įdit the ASS file in a text editor. The alpha settings of the shadow will control the transparency of the background box.Changing the Outline and Shadow sizes to 0.Note that it is also possible to change the Alpha channel of your color, i.e its transcluscence. You can change the color, with the small rule and then with the spectre, or directly define the RGB setting for the color that you want to see. Revert Replace the text of the line with the text shown in the upper box. The color changing screen is the same, no matter which kind of color you modify. Clear Text Clear the text of the line, but leave all override tags in place. If your subtitles contains multiple lines, due to auto-wrapping of long lines or an intentional line break, the backgrounds will overlap and potentially look ugly as shown below: Aegisub doesn’t support this use and some renderers might not support it aegidub. dialog after a color is changed Make the main edit boxs background color customizable.
AEGISUB CHANGE COLOR FOR MAC
The best Mac alternative is Jubler, which is both free and Open Source.If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Aegisub and six of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. See SubStation Alpha (ASS) style fields for formatting options. Change the default ffms audio error handling mode to ignore. There are many alternatives to Aegisub for Mac and since its discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. This will work with any text based subtitles supported by FFmpeg because the filter will automatically convert them to ASS. ffmpeg -i input -filter_complex "subtitles=subs.ass:force_style='OutlineColour=&H80000000,BorderStyle=3,Outline=1,Shadow=0,MarginV=20'" output If you want hardsubs you can use the subtitles filter to add the transparent background with the force_style option.
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Now you can use the AAS file to make hardsubs or softsubs with ffmpeg. Adjust the value of the Alpha box to change transparency. Under Colors click the color under Outline or Shadows.Experiment with the Outline and Shadow values.Under Current Script choose Default, then press the Edit button.The easiest way to do this is with aegisub. ASS subtitles can have a semi-transparent background for the text.