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Main features of SubCreator 1.2 :
• Keyboard handling:
To speed up the process of creating a subtitle almost all functions for video playback, timing and processing have been assigned a keyboard shortcut. Of course all mentioned functions have corresponding menu entries but it is strongly recommended to use the keyboard. SubCreator is designed in a way that allows you simultaneous video playback control and script typing by use of your keyboard.
• Drag and drop capabilities:
You can open a script or movie file in two ways:
1. Drag and drop the file or files you want to open onto a SubCreator icon. Yes! You can drag both video and script files at once! The program should properly distinguish file types. This also applies to any Open-dialog in SubCreator. SubCreator can open and recognize supported file formats at the same time. The files should be placed in one directory, however.
2. Drag and drop any supported file or files onto the main application window. Rules are the same as mentioned above.
• Playing movies:
All formats supported by Windows Media Player(TM) are also supported by SubCreator. A movie can be played forward and (fast) backward, skipped forward and backward by a predefined amount of time or to a specified time directly. The movie is viewed in the upper part of the application window. The lower part is occupied by a text editor.
• Script editing
SubCreator works using its own internal format, which is very similar to the common time format. But in case of SubCreator, the timestamp format is adjustable.
You can use one of four accessible formats: H:MM:SS; HH:MM:SS; H:MM:SS.T; HH:MM:SS.T
As you can see the maximum time resolution you can reach is 0.1 sec. which is quite sufficient in most cases.
Each line of text can have its starting time defined. There is no possibility to directly set the stop time of line. Duration of a take is determined by the default subtitle duration or by the next take start time. With this solution it is quite easy to make a first rough timing of any given movie because you are not disturbed by the need of setting the exact stop time. Therefore, the first pass of timing can be done really fast � on the fly in most cases. Later you can adjust each subtitle duration by putting special lines after them. Read more details in the Practical Use chapter.
All lines without timestamps are treated as comments, which belong to the first line with timestamp placed above. Of course lines without timestamps at the beginning of the file are also treated like comments.
The text editor offers standard functions as seen in other popular text editors like:
- copying/pasting,
- finding text,
- replacing text,
- multilevel undo.
- Importing various types of subtitle scripts:
- Time Format,
- Frame Format,
- SRT Format,
- SSA Format,
- SAMI Format.
After opening and loading file you will be asked to convert the file to a native SubCreator format. This is the only method of importing files.
• Special script processing functions:
- stretching timeline,
- removing timestamps,
- delay/advance timestamps,
- adjust length of lines,
- swapping lines,
- adjust duration,
- post OCR corrections,
- remove/transforming comments,
- interactive line breaking.
• Synchronization:
There are a few ways available to synchronize movie and script time:
- Synchronization of movie time according to a current caret position in the text editor.
- Synchronization of movie and script time according to a time entered in the Time Position Field.
- Synchronization of script time when using the Seek Movie Slider.
- Synchronization of script time to actual movie time.
• Setting configuration:
Many settings of SubCreator can be customized. Among other things you can:
- Choose the font attributes for the text editor.
- Choose the font attributes for subtitle preview below the movie.
- Set the time resolution (1sec. or 0.1sec.).
- Set the default subtitle duration.
• Restoring settings:
Most SubCreator settings are stored in the *.INI file. Those settings include window positions, last used paths, recently opened files, all settings mentioned in the paragraph above and many more. A stored setting encompasses also all information required by the SSA export filter.
• Export to other formats:
The following formats are currently supported by SubCreator:
- SSA,
- SRT,
- Frame Format,
- Time Format.
• Help system:
In most cases help is context sensitive. Although none of the dialogs contain a Help button, each of them shows the proper help after pressing the F1 key.
Changes in SubCreator 1.2 :
- Text encoding setting from menu Edit --> Encoding. Encoding is stored separately for each language installed in the system.
- Behavior of Ctrl-W and Ctrl-Q shortcuts (Add/Increase timestamp) can be switched to work as in version 1.0. Lots of people including me ;) were complaing about that changed behavior in the 1.1 version.
- New Processing function: automatic line duration adjustment basing on text length and number of words. Parameters in the formula can be estimated on any other existing and well timed subtitle. Just open that subtitle and in the Action configuarion press "Get Stats" button.
- Ctrl-Shift-A shortcut sets stop time for a give line.
- All code was reviewed to incease stability and to make easier finding any strange behavior.
• Related downloads:
- Subtitle Tool: is program for editing, time shifting, speed changing, joining, spliting and checking subtitles.
- SubtitleCreator: allows you to convert ASCII based text files in SubRip’s SRT or SUB format to the binary format expected by DVD authoring tools such as IfoEdit or ReJig.
- DVDSubberr: was created to display additional subtitles during DVD or Media files playback.
- Subtitle Workshop: is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool.
- DivXLand Media Subtitler: allows the user to manually subtitle movies and videos while viewing the applied captions on the fly.
- SubEdit Player: is a very easy-to-use, versatile movie player and subtitles editor.
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