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
• 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
• 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:

• Can edit the script header (authors, translators, timers, video informations, etc.)
• Style Editor
• Spell checking
• Framerate convertion
• Scale
• Split and joint subtitle
• Edit text and adjust time (start, end)
• Move subtitle
• Find and replace (can use Regular Expression)
• Errors checking (Overlapping, too long time...)
• Remove line empty

Supported formats:

• Sub Station Alpha
• Advanced Sub Station Alpha
• SubRip
• MicroDVD
• MPL2
• MPsub (MPlayer subtitle)
• SubViewer 2.0
• Plain-Text
• Adobe Encore DVD

Other features:

• Encoding support
• Internal format is Advanced Sub Station Alpha

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?

2008-09-25 - Subtitle Editor 0.24.1 released

Subtitle Editor 0.24.1 is released and you can download it here.

• Fix: Wrong line length and characters per second. (patch by spirit)
• Fix: Newline at opening in SubRip format. (patch by spirit)
• Fix: ComboBox outputs in the video player preferences.

The archives 0.24.1 has been updated with the missing file (PreferencePage.h).

2008-09-21 - Subtitle Editor 0.24.0 released

Subtitle Editor 0.24.0 is released and you can download it here. A visual tour with the Release logs.

2008-09-04 - Subtitle Editor 0.23.0 released

Subtitle Editor 0.23.0 is released and you can download it here. A visual tour with the Release logs.

A new Chinese tutorial has been added, thanks to kaiman.

Download

Source tarballs

The latest stable release is 0.24.1 - 2008-09-25

Installing from a source tarball:

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Required dependancies:

• gtk+ version >=2.12
• gtkmm version >=2.12
• glibmm version >= 2.16.3
• libglademm version >=2.4
• gstreamer 0.10 (gstreamer0.10-x, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good ...)
• enchant version >=1.1.0 (spell check)
• pcre/pcrecpp version >=0.20 (regex)

Binary packages

• Debian repositories
• http://repository.debuntu.org (feisty...)
• http://www.rpm-based.org/repository (Fedora...)
• Gentoo
• ArchLinux

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: 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