About Subtitle Editor
Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform, edit, correct and refine existing subtitle. This program also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronise subtitles to voices.
Subtitle Editor is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL3).
Features
User interface:
- Really easy to use
- Multiple document interface
- Undo/Redo
- Internationalization support
- Drag-and-drop
- Video player integrated in the main window (based on GStreamer)
- Can play preview with external video player (using MPlayer or other)
- Can be used for timing
- Generate and display a waveform
- Generate and display keyframes
- Can be used for translating
- Shows subtitles over the video
- With GTK+, menu accelerators can be changed by pressing a key over the menu item. This is possible with subtitleeditor, and this is for this reason that all actions are in the menu.
Editing:
- Style Editor
- Spell checking
- Text correction (Space around punctuation, capitalize, empty subtitle ...)
- Errors checking (Overlapping, too short or long duration ...)
- Framerate convertion
- Edit times and frames
- Scale subtitles
- Split or joint subtitles
- Split or joint documents
- Edit text and adjust time (start, end)
- Move subtitle
- Find and replace (Support regular expressions)
- Sort subtitles
- Type writer effect
- Lots of timing and editing tools
Supported formats:
- Adobe Encore DVD
- Advanced Sub Station Alpha
- Burnt-in timecode (BITC)
- MicroDVD
- MPL2
- MPsub (MPlayer subtitle)
- SBV
- Spruce STL
- SubRip
- Sub Station Alpha
- SubViewer 2.0
- Timed Text Authoring Format (TTAF)
- Plain-Text
Development
Development
- The development website
- Browse SVN repository
- Bugs and Feature Requests can be reported at the Bug tracker
- Mailing Lists
- ChangeLog
People willing to test and/or hack subtitleeditor should checkout the code from our Subversion repository:
svn co svn://svn.gna.org/svn/subtitleeditor/trunk subtitleeditor
Contributing
As with many open-source projects, we are always looking for help:
- User documentation (Wiki): Subtitle Editor has needs a good user documentation.
- Reporting bugs: If you found a bug, just open a ticket.
- Translating: Subtitle Editor always needs translation !
- Giving ideas: Ideas about anything !
Contacts
If you have a question you can contact the developer at :
- kitone : kitone at gna dot org
Links
Tutorials
- How to editing subtitles with waveform
- www.debuntu.org How To: editing subtitles with subtitleeditor
- www.debuntu.org How To: synchronising subtitles with subtitleeditor
- Cinelerra with subtitleeditor
- Video editing Ubuntu
- Italian how-to
- Chinese tutorial
Other editors
- Gaupol is a subtitle editor for text-based subtitles
- Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop
What's news?
2010-07-11 - Subtitle Editor 0.37.1 released
Subtitle Editor 0.37.1 is released and you can download it here.
- Fix bug #16016 (#16087) : segfault (divide by zero)
- Add Bulgarian translation
- Update de, es, gl, ru, tr and zh_CN translations
2010-07-03 - Subtitle Editor 0.37.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.37.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Display the saving dialog after generating waveform or keyframes
- Fix sr #2543 : Support for .stl file format (Spruce STL)
- Fix bug #15942 : Default location in file select dialog (waveform and keyframes)
- Fix bug #16121 : Feature request: add option to scale all subtitles (Orig. patch by Ludek
) - Fix bug #16058 : crash at "find and replace" with regexp
- Fix bug #16016 : waveform segmentation fault
2010-04-06 - Subtitle Editor 0.36.2 released
Subtitle Editor 0.36.2 is released and you can download it here.
- New subtitle format SBV
- Small fixes (typo and HIG)
- New Greek translation (by Manolis Stefanis)
- Update French translation
2010-03-22 - Subtitle Editor 0.36.1 released
Subtitle Editor 0.36.1 is released and you can download it here.
- Reorganize the menu file with a sub-menu import and export
- Fix bug #15525 : Video playback doesn't work
- Fix bug #15374 : gtkmm-2.14 has not Gtk::Action set_stock_id
- Fix bug #15464 : segfault on waveform generation
- Fix build error with the WaveformRendererGL
2010-02-02 - Subtitle Editor 0.36.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.36.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Two new plugins : sortsubtitles, typewriter
- Update the extension of the filename when the format change (dialog save)
- Add 'Open Project' and 'Save Project' in the menu File
- Cleanup in the menu File
- Improve Waveform Generator
- Fix crash caused by the text correction tool
- Fix an undesirable behavior with the cell editing
- Fix leak caused by an uninitialized value (waveform)
- Fix bug #14915 : Add the possibility of choice of an audio track to the player
- Fix bug #15101 : Comments are not merged while merging subtitles
- Fix bug #15085 : last subtitle remains visible after playing in video player
- Fix bug #14651 : Subtitle sorting option. (see sortsubtitles plugin)
Patch: Philip Jägensted
- Fix bug #15084 : default to the document format when saving translations
- Fix bug #15095 : gracefully exit if e.g. subtitleeditor.ui is missing
- Fix bug #15032 : Update duration value after EOS signal (waveform generator)
- Fix bug #15032 : stuck in infinite loop for bad duration and other problems with duration (waveform)
2009-12-31 - Subtitle Editor 0.35.1 released
Subtitle Editor 0.35.1 is released and you can download it here.
- Fix build error
- Define gstreamermm version to 0.10.4
2009-12-30 - Subtitle Editor 0.35.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.35.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Player completly rewrite
- Switch to gstreamermm
- Fix bug #14386 : Subtitle Editor Fails to Load any Video File (crash with XError)
- Improve Waveform Editor
- Improvement of the renderer by displaying keyframes before subtitles
- Unusable, caused by the option 'respect the timing' when the next subtitle is at 0:00:00.000
- Improve OSX support (need to be tested)
- Add option --enable-osx
- OSX video output added in the preferences
- Add support of OSX in the player
- Switch file reader/writer to gio(mm)
- Fix sr #2449 : keyframe does'nt save - 0.34.0
- Fix sr #2128 : Fix build with old gcc
- Fix bug #14974 : More appropriate Video category for subtitleeditor.desktop (patch by Dan S <danstowell>)
Download
Source tarballs
The latest stable release is 0.37.1 - 2010-07-11
Installing from a source tarball:
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Required dependencies:
- gtk+ version >=2.12
- gtkmm version >=2.14
- glibmm version >= 2.16.3
- gstreamer 0.10 (gstreamer0.10-x, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good ...)
- gstreamermm version >= 0.10.4
- enchant version >=1.4.0 (spell check)
- libxml++ >=2.20
Binary packages
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