How to Edit or Convert Subtitles?

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How to Edit or Convert Subtitles?

Submitted by Alvin Nyau on 12, 2008 View Comments

Learn How to add subtitles to movies if you don’t know how yet. Sometimes the subtitle’s timing doesn’t match exactly to the sound of your movie at hand. There are several tools on the internet which can be used to fix such problems.

Among all those tools, I recommend Subtitle Edit(SE). This tool can handle SAMI (.smi), SubRip (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub), Substation Alpha(.ssa) and SubViewer formats. You can edit the texts or adjust the times of a subtitle with just a few simple steps. You can even convert any text file or subtitle file to 4 formats which are SAMI (.smi), SubRip (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub) and Substation Alpha(.ssa).

In this tip, I will be showing you the things that you can do with this tool.
- How to edit the times of a subtitle?
- How to convert subtitles from a format to another?

How to edit the times of a subtitle?

Open Subtitle Edit by double clicking its shortcut icon on dekstop.
Click the Open button on the top left corner of SE and then select the subtitle file that you want to edit.

To adjust the timing of a subtitle, simply use the tools under “Adjust all times” section. For example if your subtitle shows up on the movie 3 seconds before the sound, you should type a value of 3 in the box of Sec and click the Show later button. Your subtitle will then shows up with correct timing.

However, you would not always have the correct prediction of the timing between subtitles and sounds. You can make a smart guess and then make a change. After making changes, you don’t actually need to completely close SE to run the video. You can save it whenever u make changes just with a simple key CTRL+S and run the video with SE opening. If the subtitle is still incorrect and need to make any changes again, just go back to the opened SE and edit your subtitle straight away instead of starting SE all over again.

How to convert subtitles from a format to another?

Open Subtitle Edit by double clicking its shortcut icon on dekstop.
Click the Open button on the top left corner of SE and then select the subtitle file that you want to edit.

To convert the subtitle’s file format to another, simply click the button that you want the format to be under Convert to section. Refer image below.

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View Comments to "How to Edit or Convert Subtitles?" - Add Yours »

truong said:

I think this software is very good but it will better if it supports more languages such as Vietnamese, etc

12, 2008 at 12:39 pm

truong said:

How can I edit an file as below by using this software? (*.srt)

5
00:01:55,950 –> 00:01:57,910
Harry!

6
00:01:57,910 –> 00:01:59,850
M? c?a ra!

7
00:02:09,310 –> 00:02:12,010
D??ng Vernon, xin d??ng ký t?
??n này giúp cháu.

12, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Alvin Nyau said:

It seems like you want to show your subtitles exactly 1.96 sec later.
Just do what I’ve told you above. For example, you want to show your subtitle at time 00:01:57,910 instead of 00:01:55,950.
Take the value of 00:01:57,910 minus 00:01:55,950 and then write it into the box as shown above and click “show later”.

13, 2008 at 4:39 pm

convert to DVD said:

thanks very much for this clear guide it helped me use my subtitles with ConvertXtoDVD.

3, 2008 at 10:48 pm

Bhaskar said:

Thanks. very helpful guide.

17, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Cacho said:

You can convert your subtitles with SubtitleSync.com.ar and you don’t have to install anything.

24, 2009 at 8:03 am

Thank you! said: