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Video Subtitling in Debian

Software available

aegisub

aegisub is a well-known software to produce video subtitles.

gaupol

gaupol is a GTK subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files.

Remarks:

gnome-subtitles

Gnome Subtitles is a GTK3 application for subtitling. It depends on Mono platform.

Remarks:

subtitleeditor

Subtitle Editor is a GTK+3 tool to edit subtitles.

Remarks:

SubtitleComposer

?SubtitleComposer is a subtitle editor from KDE project.

Other software

Usage

subtitleeditor

The workflow is not obvious at first glance, so let's sum up:

Once you have these 3 parts displayed, you can start working.

Using the mouse is nearly mandatory, with the purpose to work with the Waveform frame:

You will also make use of keyboard. It's a good idea to set your own shorcuts. Go in "Options" menu, and set new keyboard shorcuts, in particular you will likely need:

This way you can start working without having to move the mouse the much around the GUI, and use a few keys to create new subtitle entries, which you will adjust time borders with the mouse according to the waveform.

Also use Enter to edit current subtitle.

subtitleeditor is not rock stable so you'd better make regular save for your work (CTRL+S).

Subtitle Formats

Application support

As of 2009 (needs update)

gaupol

Gnome Subtitle

Subtitle Editor

Capabilities of subtitle formats (table)

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Format

Extension

Font Styles

Actors

Movie Info

Sync

Players Supported

DVD

Extra

Adobe Encore DVD

.txt

no

no

no

time

???

???

Advanced Sub Station Alpha

.ass

F S C O G B H M

yes

yes

time

???

???

DKS Subtitle Format

.dks

no

no

no

time

???

???

Karaoke Lyrics LRC

.lrc

no

yes

yes

time

???

???

Karaoke Lyrics VKT

.vkt

no

yes

yes

frame

???

???

Manimator

.pan

no

no

no

time

???

???

MicroDVD

.sub

no

no

no

frame

???

???

MPlayer2

.mpl

no

no

no

frame

???

???

Mplayer

.mpl

no

yes

no

frame

???

???

MPSub

.sub

no

no

yes

both

???

???

Phoenix Japanimation Society

.pjs

no

no

no

frame

???

???

PowerDivX

.psb

no

no

no

time

???

???

?SubRip

.srt

no

no

no

time

???

???

Sub Station Alpha

.ssa

F S C* O G B* H M

yes

yes

time

???

???

Support 3rd color, not underline, not strike, support alpha

Sub Viewer 1.0

.sub

no

no

yes

time

???

???

Sub Viewer 2.0

.sub

F S G B

no

yes

time

???

???

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