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Saving italics in Subtitle Edit | Subtitle file type???

Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Saving italics in Subtitle Edit
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Subtitle file type???

As I understand the subtitling process, particularly the 60+ subtitle file formats, there are two major opposing trends.

All non-proprietary subtitle file formats are TEXT files, so you can open them using Windows Notepad, to see what's inside.

A) represented by SSA/ASS
They contain all subtitle text formatting parameters, so that rendering the subtitles can be done by "lo-level" (i.e. cheap or free) software, like VirtualDub.

B) represented by different variants of TXT
They usually contain only time-in, time-out, and plain subtitle text. All formatting has to be done on the "hi-level" (i.e. "professional" or "expensive") software like the defunct Ulead's DVD Workshop, or FinalCut, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas etc.

So if you are saving to a format used by some "hi-level" subtitle rendering program, SE will prune italic and other commands, as these would be taken for text, and explicitly appear onscreen, instead of being executed. Keep in mind that SE doesn't "know" which subtitle format you will be saving to until you actually do it.

Try saving your file to SSA, and then check if the italic commands stay there. If they do, this will be the answer.

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