Subtitle Workshop supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you want from a subtitle editing software. Some of the features are the following: user friendly interface, can handle both time and frame based subtitles, massive subtitle conversion, can check for and fix errors in subtitles, can get frame rate from a movie file, associates itself with the subtitles extensions you want, adjust subtitles, recent files list, etc.
Reading and writing engine
· It is based in URUSoft SubtitleAPI, so new formats can be easily added by downloading an updated dll file.
· Currently supports around 56 subtitle formats.
· Can handle both time and frame based subtitles.
· Can load files in plain text format so that you can set the timings.
· Supports Output Settings in DVDSubtitle, SAMI, Sonic Scenarist, SubStation Alpha, SubViewer 1 & 2 and TMPlayer
formats.
· Supports saving a subtitle in your custom format.
Interface
· Supports multi-language (currently over 35 languages are available!).
· Video Preview Mode on and off and Translator Mode on and off.
· User friendly "Translator mode".
Video preview
· Shows subtitles over the video.
· Can show information about the video you are watching.
· You are able to customize foreground color, background color (or transparent), show border or not, show shadow or
not, border and shadow's width of the subtitles.
· NOT based in Windows Media Player, this results in a highly improved performance and visual quality.
Subtitle fixing
· Highly enhanced functions strictly designed to get speed and a high grade of efficiency.
· Advanced & easy to customize text scripts for OCR errors repair, offering the possibility of using regular expressions.
· Powerful and totally customizable error fixing engine.
· Possibility to mark errors in the main list with a different font style and color so that it is easy to identify them visually.
· Optional automated checks/fixes on load subtitle.
· Checks and fixes (all are optional, you may configure it): empty subtitles, lines without letters, overlapping, bad values, hearing impaired subtitles, text before colon (":") (optional - "Only if text is in capital letters"), unnecessary dots, "-" in subtitles with one line, subtitles over two lines, prohibited characters (configurable characters), repeated characters (configurable characters), repeated subtitles (configurable time tolerance), OCR errors, spaces before custom characters, spaces after custom characters, unnecessary spaces, too long/short durations and too long lines
What's New in This Release:
· Fixed: bug with XP style menus.
· Fixed: now it is possible to modify time writing it and pressing enter in the main controls while you are in frames mode.
· Fixed: bug with OCR scripts parser and multiple lines comments.
· Fixed: overlapping fixing in some cases.
· Fixed: now you can remove tags with the popup menu even if "No interaction with tags" option is enabled.
· Fixed: times in simple adjust changed when you switched tabs.
· Fixed: "Add new sync point" now works fine in frames mode.
· Fixed: strange bug detecting too long lines in some cases.
· Fixed: bug with custom formats.
· Fixed: bug with "Time expander/reducer".
· Fixed: other little bugs.... [ read full changelog ]