Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Encoding Subtitles
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: The SRT format
Ciao, Francesco,
According to [url removed] , the SRT file format should be like this:
[quote]
1. A numeric counter identifying each sequential subtitle
2. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, followed by --> and the time it should disappear
3. Subtitle text itself on one or more lines
4. A blank line containing no text, indicating the end of this subtitle[9]
Example:
168
00:20:41,150 --> 00:20:45,109
- How did he do that?
- Made him an offer he couldn't refuse.[/quote]
... which is quite different from your:
[quote][1] TIMEIN: 10:00:48:16 DURATION: 05:15 TIMEOUT: 10:00:54:06
Exceptional Journey
through the Human Body.[/quote]
Most subtitle files are plain TXT files, so you could convert the latter into the former with a series of search & replace, were it not for the fact that the "standard" uses milliseconds (...41,150), and yours uses frames (...48:16). Watch out for the Italian decimal comma, if you use Windows/software adopting a period for decimal.
I think your SRT is some "different" SRT, from some other standard than SubRip - which would be compatible with VLC.
Try opening it with either Subtitle Workshop, Subtitle Edit, or Media Subtitler, check if the subs come out okay, and then save to SubRip's SRT. All these programs are free, and if you can't find them for download, search on [url removed] .
VideoLAN VLC will play the video with subtitles automatically IF both the video and subtitles file are located in the same folder and have exactly the same file name, the only difference being their extension.
SRT is a bare bones subtitles file. You'll have to configure font, size, location, color, etc. on VLC. Meanwhile it seems tat the most recent versions of VLC also accept ASS and SSA. These are high-level subtitle files, which contain all formatting parameters. So the latter are a better option if you want the subtitles to have a certain format preserved, for instance, if you decide to play on the VLS installed on a different computer, without having to set all parameters again.
If you want to permanently burn the subtitles onto the video, I have been using VirtualDub + Lee Avery's (the author) "Subtitler" plugin (he calls them "filters") for many years. Tutorials are available on the VideoHelp site. However many colleagues do it with Format Factory, which I've never tried.
In bocca al lupo!
Topic: Encoding Subtitles
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: The SRT format
Ciao, Francesco,
According to [url removed] , the SRT file format should be like this:
[quote]
1. A numeric counter identifying each sequential subtitle
2. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, followed by --> and the time it should disappear
3. Subtitle text itself on one or more lines
4. A blank line containing no text, indicating the end of this subtitle[9]
Example:
168
00:20:41,150 --> 00:20:45,109
- How did he do that?
- Made him an offer he couldn't refuse.[/quote]
... which is quite different from your:
[quote][1] TIMEIN: 10:00:48:16 DURATION: 05:15 TIMEOUT: 10:00:54:06
Exceptional Journey
through the Human Body.[/quote]
Most subtitle files are plain TXT files, so you could convert the latter into the former with a series of search & replace, were it not for the fact that the "standard" uses milliseconds (...41,150), and yours uses frames (...48:16). Watch out for the Italian decimal comma, if you use Windows/software adopting a period for decimal.
I think your SRT is some "different" SRT, from some other standard than SubRip - which would be compatible with VLC.
Try opening it with either Subtitle Workshop, Subtitle Edit, or Media Subtitler, check if the subs come out okay, and then save to SubRip's SRT. All these programs are free, and if you can't find them for download, search on [url removed] .
VideoLAN VLC will play the video with subtitles automatically IF both the video and subtitles file are located in the same folder and have exactly the same file name, the only difference being their extension.
SRT is a bare bones subtitles file. You'll have to configure font, size, location, color, etc. on VLC. Meanwhile it seems tat the most recent versions of VLC also accept ASS and SSA. These are high-level subtitle files, which contain all formatting parameters. So the latter are a better option if you want the subtitles to have a certain format preserved, for instance, if you decide to play on the VLS installed on a different computer, without having to set all parameters again.
If you want to permanently burn the subtitles onto the video, I have been using VirtualDub + Lee Avery's (the author) "Subtitler" plugin (he calls them "filters") for many years. Tutorials are available on the VideoHelp site. However many colleagues do it with Format Factory, which I've never tried.
In bocca al lupo!