Hi All,
Naturally, I searched this forum for an answer to my question before taking the time to make my own thread, and I actually found a person looking for an answer to the exact same question I was looking to have answered around 10 years ago - except the old moderator Baldrick chose to close the thread before an answer could be given, then referred to a so-called 'similar thread' which in fact was not even remotely answering the same question. That same user re-asked his question of merging .ass files and in the end had to do it in SubtitleWorkshop and obviously ran into the problem of styling - that's kind of a big issue for me. I'm not in a position where I can just casually restyle the text after merging the two files because one of these files is karaoke subtitling.
In summary, I'd like to ask if anyone knows how to take one .ass file (with completely different timecodes) and merge it with another within Aegisub to ensure that styling is maintained. The reason why I need this is because the karaoke subtitling was done by someone else in its own file and needs to be added to the first .ass I made. Extensive google searching has led me to believe that no such functionality exists within Aegisub, but I find that to be extremely bizarre - a simple "import .ass" into an .ass already open within Aegisub is all I really need. If this is actually not possible then my only option is probably going to be hardcoding the karaoke into the video then softcoding the rest, which I would very much like to avoid.
Naturally, I searched this forum for an answer to my question before taking the time to make my own thread, and I actually found a person looking for an answer to the exact same question I was looking to have answered around 10 years ago - except the old moderator Baldrick chose to close the thread before an answer could be given, then referred to a so-called 'similar thread' which in fact was not even remotely answering the same question. That same user re-asked his question of merging .ass files and in the end had to do it in SubtitleWorkshop and obviously ran into the problem of styling - that's kind of a big issue for me. I'm not in a position where I can just casually restyle the text after merging the two files because one of these files is karaoke subtitling.
In summary, I'd like to ask if anyone knows how to take one .ass file (with completely different timecodes) and merge it with another within Aegisub to ensure that styling is maintained. The reason why I need this is because the karaoke subtitling was done by someone else in its own file and needs to be added to the first .ass I made. Extensive google searching has led me to believe that no such functionality exists within Aegisub, but I find that to be extremely bizarre - a simple "import .ass" into an .ass already open within Aegisub is all I really need. If this is actually not possible then my only option is probably going to be hardcoding the karaoke into the video then softcoding the rest, which I would very much like to avoid.