Subtitle Edit is an editor for video subtitles.
The program lets you adjust subtitles if they’re out of sync. The software can also make new subtitles, or translate subtitles.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create/adjust/sync/translate subtitle lines.
- Convert between SubRib, MicroDVD, Advanced Sub Station Alpha, Sub Station Alpha, D-Cinema, SAMI, youtube sbv, and many more (280+ different formats).
- Cool audio visualizer control – can display wave form and/or spectrogram.
- Video player uses DirectShow, VLC media player, or MPlayer.
- Visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed).
- Auto Translation via Google translate.
- Rip subtitles from a (decrypted) dvd.
- Import and OCR VobSub sub/idx binary subtitles.
- Import and OCR Blu-ray .sup files – bd sup reading is based on Java code from BDSup2Sub by 0xdeadbeef).
- Open subtitles embedded inside Matroska files.
- Open subtitles (text, closed captions, VobSub) embedded inside mp4/mv4 files.
- Open/OCR XSub subtitles embedded inside divx/avi files.
- Open/OCR DVB and teletext subtitles embedded inside .ts/.m2ts (Transport Stream) files.
- Open/OCR Blu-ray subtitles embedded inside .m2ts (Transport Stream) files.
- Read and write both UTF-8 and other unicode files and ANSI (support for all languages/encodings).
- Sync: Show texts earlier/later + point synchronization + synchronization via other subtitle.
- Merge/split subtitles.
- Adjust display time.
- Fix common errors wizard.
- Spell checking via Open Office dictionaries/NHunspell (many dictionaries available).
- Remove text for hear impaired (HI).
- Renumbering.
- Effects: Typewriter and karaoke.
- History/undo manager.
- Compare subtitles.
- Multiple search and replace.
- Change casing using names dictionary.
- Merge short lines/split long lines.
- Export to PNG images (+bdn xml), Adobe Encore FAB image script, VobSub, Blu-ray sup, EBU stl, PAC, and plain text.
- Swedish to Danish translation built-in (via Multi Translator Online).
Website: www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Nikolaj Lynge Olsson
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Subtitle Edit is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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