https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498870
--- Comment #7 from Ron <kdenlive-b...@contact.dot-oz.net> --- The inability to have two subtitles with the same start time isn't something fundamental to subtitle files or their renderers. You can craft such a file outside of kdenlive and it will work just fine in most if not all players. In theory kdenlive can even render it correctly. Disallowing that, and using 'layers' as a workaround for it, is an artificial limitation that was created to 'solve' the problem of how to handle perfectly overlapping clips in the timeline UI, and the problem of them being internally indexed by start time which didn't permit having them together in the kdenlive internal structures for manipulating clips. Using (ASS) layers isn't a good workaround for that, because most/all renderers will display two subtitles on different layers differently to how it displays overlapping subtitles that are on the same layer. If they are on different layers, then they will overwrite each other (without explicit re-positioning) rather than being cleanly shown together. (It does make some sense to show them that way on the UI timeline when subtitles overlap, in a similar way to showing any other overlapping clips on different tracks, just not to link that function to 'ass layers' which do something different, and almost completely opposite). All these problems have been addressed in my current dev branch, and importing or otherwise adding overlapping subtitles works correctly in the editor the same as it does in the renderer. So this bug is in the set that will be closed when that work is completed and lands in a release. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
