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MrCzar | 5 years ago

Could you recommend a tool that does subtitles and generates a .srt afterwards, from your experience?

I have a friend that translates everything from English for his grandmother, so she can watch movies that she does not understand, but he does it by hand in a video editing program. Would love to help him out.

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henrikschroder|5 years ago

I've tested a couple of the popular free ones, and settled on Aegisub. The default keybindings drove me nuts, they're not very ergonomic, but at least you can fix that easily.

.srt is the lowest common denominator for subtitle files, every subtitling program can import and export those. It's a pretty dumb format though, my biggest issue with it is that it doesn't have support for fixed-position left-aligned subtitles, and it doesn't have support for specifying the font. I understand why, it's to make playback much simpler and resolution-independent, which is why every single video player program or hardware device in existence has support for it.

But if you left-align it with a fixed margin, choose a good font, and use white text on black background, your subtitles are going to be so much easier to read.

(Here's a sample of what I prefer: https://skamenglishsubs.tumblr.com/post/188037245260/subtext...)

jaywalk|5 years ago

Isn't that left aligned? Am I missing something?

innocenat|5 years ago

Personally, I find the default keybinding for subtitle timing to be the best keybinding. But it's kinda not newcomer friendly.