Professional Subtitling Software (UK + GER) | Subtitle Edit but is it reliable?

Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Professional Subtitling Software (UK + GER)
Poster: JonathanHemming
Post title: Subtitle Edit but is it reliable?

Hi

I am currently using Subtitle Edit, mainly because I can't afford an expensive software. From the ones I have tried EZTitles would be my first choice. I have tried Spot, Swift and Isis and found EZTitles the easiest to use.

I like Subtitle Edit, but I find that it is very unreliable, especially in terms of generating consistent time-ins and time-outs.

For example, if a subtitle starts or finishes exactly on the second (like 00:00:03:00), it is almost always impossible to land on this frame,as it always falls one frame before or one frame after, which means I often have to go and correct the subtitle file later, in Excel for example.

I find it also jumps several frames across the length of the video and is nearly always one or two frames out. If you work with a BITC (buil in time code), you can fix this on the go, but if there is no BITC on the video, it's difficult to know if you're in sync or not.

Any thoughts on this? Am I the only one to have these problems with Subtitle Edit?

Jonathan
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