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
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?
2009-06-23 - Subtitle Editor 0.33.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.33.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Fix: #13696 New action 'Generate Dummy Waveform'
- Fix: #13271 Improve split subtitle (tag)
- Fix: #13270 Improve split subtitle (multiline)
- Fix: #12858 New format BITC
- Fix: #12570 New plugin 'timingfromplayer' with new action 'Set Subtitle Start And End'
- Fix: #13656 ASS/SSA Make reading more robust to the invalid files
- Translations update
2009-06-03 - Subtitle Editor 0.32.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.32.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Add inline spellchecker capability to any textview (subtitle view, text correction...)
- Spell Checking Plugin completely rewrite
- Fix: #13211 Translation checking support
- Fix: #13070 Spell checker should use 'sgml' filter to skip over HTML tags
- Fix: #11567 Italics-codes are parsed to the spell-check
- Text Correction Plugin
- New Latn-fi pattern (Osmo Salomaa, Gaupol)
- Select the modified subtitles
- Extract capitalization pattern from common-error to capitalization.se-pattern
- Fix: Maintain order of patterns with the same name
- Add an option "Only selected subtitles" to "Move Subtitles"
- Fix: #10439 Improve Subtitle Editor Project (selection, video, framerate...)
- Fix: #7019 Black rectangle with the video player
- Fix: #2341 Add option to don't disable the actions during editing
- Fix: #13428 Change dependence of libxml++ >= 2.20 (packager)
- Fix: #526155 (Debian bug) FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
- Fix: 'play/pause' doesn't work after 'play selection'
- Fix: Gtk warning adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
- Fix: More robust with the wrong values of the points, display error messages (scalesubtitles)
- Fix: Icon in pixmaps directory
The screen shots section have been updated, enjoy the last release.
2009-04-22 - Subtitle Editor 0.31.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.31.0 is released and you can download it here.
Last months have been a bit busy for me, so I gave up on subtitleeditor a bit. This release don't come with really big new features. There are only one new tool, the others things are bug fixes and some cleanup code.
The new plugin is a "Text Correction", clearly inspired from Gaupol, we working now together on the pattern file, so if you want participate you can work on Gaupol, SubtitleEditor or both.
- Enable changing of default audio and video sink preferences in the build time
- Add pulsesink to audio outputs and fix OSS sing ID
- Fix: #12682 deleting a subtitle while playing throws segfault
- Fix: #12649 subtitleeditor does not build with LDFLAGS='-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined'
- Fix: #12847 Waveform creation from video causes a crash with file name contains spaces
- Fix: #13069 Error checker reports back-to-back subtitles as "overlapping"
Special thanks to Luboš Staněk and Frank Luithle.
2008-11-28 - Subtitle Editor 0.30.0 released
Subtitle Editor 0.30.0 is released and you can download it here.
- Each function work around extension system (enable/disable/configure)
- Add 'Generate Wavefrom From Video'
- Add line break policy option: soft, hard, intelligent (ASS/SSA)
- Add 'Wavefrom & Media' filter in the wavefrom dialog
- Add build option ccache
- Fix: Subtitle saving with no UTF-8 system (locale)
- Fix: Move subtitles added after the last original subtitle (Join Document)
- Fix: Alpha channel support for ASS (#12566)
- Fix: Allow opacity selection for Secondary, Outline and Shadow for ASS (#12569)
- Fix: Don't reload the player if the file is the same
- Fix: Catch enchant exception (spellchecking)
- Fix: Missing m4/intltool.m4 (#12626)
- Translations update
- Cleanup (code & autohell)
Special thanks to Luboš Staněk.
Download
Source tarballs
The latest stable release is 0.33.0 - 2009-06-23
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)
- libxml++ >=2.20
Binary packages
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