It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features y'all would want from a subtitle editing programme. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks nearly a pleasance, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes like shooting fish in a barrel to admission menus & must take features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. Information technology includes spell check role and an advanced video preview characteristic which will ease the chore fifty-fifty more. The best choice for the beginner, good or the fansubber. Accept a effort, and you'll forget the remainder!

Reading and writing engine

  • Based in URUSoft SubtitleAPI, so new formats can exist easily added by downloading an updated dll file.
  • Currently (version ane.05 of SubtitleAPI) supports around 56 subtitle formats.
  • Can handle both fourth dimension and frame based subtitles.
  • Can load files in obviously text format and then that you can prepare the timings.
  • Supports reading and writing style tags (bold, italic, underline) and colour tags in format which support it.
  • Supports Output Settings in DVDSubtitle, SAMI, Sonic Scenarist, SubStation Blastoff, SubViewer 1 & two and TMPlayer formats.
  • Supports saving a subtitle in your custom format.

Interface

  • User friendly.
  • Configurable shortcuts.
  • Supports multi-language (currently over 35 languages are available!).
  • Can switch betwixt interfaces to adjust to the user'due south demand, you lot can plough Video Preview Mode on and off and Translator Mode on and off.
  • User friendly "Translator fashion".

Video preview

  • Integrated in the main window.
  • Shows subtitles over the video.
  • Tin can evidence information about the video you lot are watching.
  • You are able to customize foreground color, background color (or transparent), show border or not, show shadow or not, border and shadow'due south width of the subtitles.
  • NOT based in Windows Media Player, this results in a highly improved operation and visual quality.

Subtitle fixing

  • Highly enhanced functions strictly designed to get speed and a loftier 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 marking errors in the main list with a different font mode and color then that it is easy to identify them visually.
  • Optional automated checks/fixes on load subtitle.
  • Checks and fixes (all are optional, y'all may configure information technology): empty subtitles, lines without letters, overlapping, bad values, hearing impaired subtitles, text before colon (":") (optional - "Only if text is in uppercase letters"), unnecessary dots, "-" in subtitles with i line, subtitles over ii lines, prohibited characters (configurable characters), repeated characters (configurable characters), repeated subtitles (configurable fourth dimension tolerance), OCR errors, spaces before custom characters, spaces afterwards custom characters, unnecessary spaces, as well long/short durations and besides long lines (only check).

General

  • Extremely customizable.
  • Multi-level Disengage-Redo.
  • Spell check using Microsoft Word's engine, so information technology supports any installed linguistic communication.
  • Can create new subtitles from scratch.
  • Easily add and delete subtitles with "Insert" and "Delete" keys.
  • Can separate subtitle (at selected particular, at given detail, at given time, at given frame, or at the terminate of video), or in an indefinite number of parts (equal in fourth dimension, in lines or at the terminate of multiple videos).
  • Can join an indefinite number of subtitles, and those subtitles may be in different formats with dissimilar FPS (you can select a different FPS for each file).
  • Two methods of getting FPS from video: without using DirectX (only supports AVI) and using DirectX (supports all video formats, but it is slower).
  • Y'all are able to choose which subtitle extensions to associate.
  • Supports drag & drib (subtitle files and video files).
  • Supports command line.
  • Recent files list (customizable number of recent files from 0 to xx).

Timing operations

  • Set filibuster (positive or negative, fourth dimension or frames).
  • Fix duration limits (maximum duration and minimum duration).
  • Arrange subtitles using iv possible methods: ane- first and terminal dialogs, 2- synchronize using 2 points (linear algorithm), iii- Adjust to synchronized subtitles and four- Advanced system to synchronize subtitles using an indefinite number of points.
  • "Time expander/reducer" to aggrandize/reduce the final fourth dimension of certain subtitles under sure conditions.
  • "Automated durations" to calculate the duration of subtitles using a uncomplicated formula.
  • FPS Conversion with one click.
  • "Extend length" to extend the length of selected subtitles to the beginning time of the next one.
  • "Shift subtitle" forward or backwards a configurable amount of time.
  • "Read times from file" feature, to fix a subtitle using another subtitle's times.

Text-related operations

  • Search & Supercede text with "Match whole words", "Example sensitive" and "Preserve instance" options.
  • "Smart line arrange" to constrain subtitles bigger than 3 lines into two and adapt length of lines.
  • "Convert instance" with 6 different conversion modes.
  • "Unbreak subtitles" to make all selected subtitles be in one line.
  • "Divide lines" to hands divide a subtitle with more than than 1 line (or one big line) into two subtitles with proper time recalculation.
  • "Reverse text" keeping lines order or not.
  • "Gear up punctuation", very useful for right-to-left languages.
  • "Delete unnecessary links" to delete the unnecessary "..." if they are present the finish of ane line and at the beginning of the next one.
  • "Read texts from file" feature, to set a subtitle using another subtitle's text.

Text and times related

  • "Sort subtitles" to sort all the subtitles according to their start time.
  • "Combine subtitles" to make all the selected subtitles become just one (for eg. "- Howdy!" and "- Hey!!!" to "- Hi!|- Hey!!!").
  • Visual effects with the texts and times of the subtitles.
  • Possibility to marking subtitles for later review (and of course unmark them) and read Subtitle Report Files (*.srf) generated by ViPlay.

Current list of supported formats:

  • Adobe Encore DVD (*.txt)
  • Advanced SubStation Alpha (*.donkey)
  • AQTitle (*.aqt)
  • Captions 32 (*.txt)
  • Captions DAT (*.dat)
  • Captions DAT Text (*.dat)
  • Captions Inc. (*.txt)
  • Cheetah (*.asc)
  • CPC-600 (*.txt)
  • DKS Subtitle Format (*.dks)
  • DVD Junior (*.txt)
  • DVD Subtitle Organization (*.txt)
  • DVDSubtitle (*.sub)
  • FAB Subtitler (*.txt)
  • IAuthor Script (*.txt)
  • Inscriber CG (*.txt)
  • JACOSub 2.7+ (*.jss; *.js)
  • Karaoke Lyrics LRC (*.lrc)
  • Karaoke Lyrics VKT (*.vkt)
  • KoalaPlayer (*.txt) (equal to one of the variations of TMPlayer)
  • MAC DVD Studio Pro (*.txt)
  • MacSUB (*.scr)
  • MicroDVD (*.sub)
  • MPlayer (*.mpl)
  • MPlayer2 (*.mpl)
  • MPSub (*.sub)
  • OVR Script (*.ovr)
  • Panimator (*.pan)
  • Philips SVCD Designer (*.sub)
  • Phoenix Japanimation Society (*.pjs)
  • Top Impression (*.txt)
  • PowerDivX (*.psb)
  • PowerPixel (*.txt)
  • QuickTime Text (*.txt)
  • RealTime (*.rt)
  • SAMI Captioning (*.smi)
  • Sasami Script (*.s2k)
  • SBT (*.sbt)
  • Sofni (*.sub)
  • Softitler RTF (*.rtf)
  • SonicDVD Creator (*.sub)
  • Sonic Scenarist (*.sst)
  • Bandbox DVDMaestro (*.son)
  • Spruce Subtitle File (*.stl)
  • Stream SubText Player (*.sst)
  • Stream SubText Script (*.ssts)
  • SubCreator 1.10 (*.txt)
  • SubRip (*.srt)
  • SubSonic (*.sub)
  • SubStation Alpha (*.ssa)
  • SubViewer 1.0 (*.sub)
  • SubViewer 2.0 (*.sub)
  • TMPlayer (*.txt) (v different variations)
  • Turbo Titler (*.txt)
  • Ulead DVD Workshop 2.0 (*.txt)
  • ViPlay Subtitle File (*.vsf)
  • ZeroG (*.zeg)