Subtitle Editor

Subtitle Editor is a GTK+3 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

• 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

Editing

• Style Editor
• Spell checking
• Text correction (Space around punctuation, capitalize, empty subtitle …)
• Errors checking (Overlapping, too short or long duration …)
• Framerate conversion
• 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
• SubRip
• Sub Station Alpha
• SubViewer 2.0
• Timed Text Authoring Format (TTAF)
• Plain-Text

Installation

Source tarballs, installing from a source tarball:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Required dependencies:

• gtk+ version >=3.0
• gtkmm version >=3.10
• glibmm version >= 2.18.0
• gstreamer 1.0 (gstreamer1.0-x, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good …)
• gstreamermm version >= 1.0
• enchant version >=1.4.0 (spell check)
• libxml++ >=2.20

Developement

After building with make, it is possible to run Subtitle Editor before installing it from the directory where it was built with:

 SE_DEV=1 ./src/subtitleeditor

To update the translations files when strings or files get added, one needs to run the following in the ./po directory:

../prepare-po.sh # checks for potential new files that could include translatable strings
intltool-update --maintain # does the same, potentially can produce files missing and notexist listing deleted files or not-included files
intltool-update --headers # creates headers, do not run any git commands now as a lot of unwanted files would get staged    
intltool-update --pot #this generates a new pot file
for po in *po; do intltool-update ${po%.po} ; done #this finally applies the changes to the master pot file to individual translations

To prepare a release:

• bump the version in configure.ac
• check the log (git log) to create release notes in GitHub
• draft a release, when it’s ok, add a new bumped tag