embedded subtitle fix

I have an older classic japanese movie that is hard subbed in Chinese. I m going to put Japanese and English subtitles for it. In all the posts, clearly once the subtitles are embedded, they are just another part of the "film". Some say to opaque to hard subs out. What is the best option? No one that I know has this film, so waiting for it isn't a good option.
by scrubbing the old subtitles, do you really have to open each frame up and "repaint" them. I suppose AVI editor software allows that?
Tai

 

I have a copy of "The Loop' that came with burned in subtitles.
I chopped off the bottom of the frame and resized it back to the original.
Using a filter in the likes of VirtualDub to carefully remove the subs was not a serious option.
In this case the I only cared about watching the movie without distraction - I could have took more time to ensure the aspect ratio was better.
Another option would be to put a black box over the existing subs then placing your subs on that.

 

I would find the distorted AR much more annoying to watch.

 

Same, only clipped then cropped to same AR as source.
You lose it at the sides.

 

Thanks it looks good too. I did find something after I posted, that I'd never seen before. for subtitle always came back with no info, blank. I used media info and it showed up as text RLE.

Since I don't have a url. I can't send a picture. Basically "Text Codecs: 2-bit RLE (or run+length+encoding).
If the RLE doesnt come out as a program to remove. Looking at your photos, before and after. Did you have to black them out frame by frame?
Attar, First you said you chopped the bottom, which you can see when comparing the second photo(it looks stretched a bit). I take it that the other sentence[Using a filter in the likes of VirtualDub to carefully remove the subs was not a serious option.] would have been another option. That you did not use?!So what steps did you do to chop your video?
I would like to turn off this RLE or take it out.Best case.
since it isn't just for me, the black box idea may be better than chopping and stretching the video.
thanks
Tai

 

In my second response, after cropping the bottom (using the cropping feature of the Null Transform filter), I used the Resize filter to resize to the original aspect ratio.
This keeps the AR at the cost of cropping part of the sides.