Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Ask me anything about subtitling
Poster: Max Deryagin
Post title: -
Hi Max,
[quote]Max Masutin wrote:
1. Creating waveforms.
a) Do you prefer anything other than Subtitle Edit?[/quote]
I prefer EZTitles, because it has a discrete waveform (one sound level per frame), which makes being frame-accurate much easier:
[quote]b) In Subtitle Edit, does it matter what you choose in Settings/Video player? So far I've been able to make it work only with VLC.[/quote]
No, not for the waveform's appearance.
[quote]2. Setting start and end times manually using video.
I didn't find Subtitle Edit easy to use for this. The control of playback is limited and switching between video and text is difficult. I prefer switching between a player and a text editor. I set the times and enter the text, a RegEx macro does the rest. Do you know a player where you can assign keys to copy the elapsed time as hh:mm:ss.mmm in 1-2 keystrokes? I like PotPlayer as it pauses when you switch focus. Strangely it omits milliseconds when copying with a dedicated function. Otherwise you need to press G, Ctrl+C, Esc. [/quote]
I'm not sure what you mean. You can assign hotkeys in Settings to pause/play the video, jump back and forward, set in- and out-time, etc. There are quite a few options, so there's no need to manually switch between the video and the text or copy the time.
[quote]3. Do you use voice-to-text? [/quote]
Yes, quite a bit, but Dragon doesn't really work for me, because it's slow and it doesn't support Russian, so what I use instead is GBoard's voice input. My smartphone is connected to the PC via an app called Unified Remote, and whenever I need to voice dictate, I just tap GBoard's microphone icon. Google's voice recognition is faster and more accurate than Dragon's, and it supports a huge number of languages. It's not good with capitalization and double/trailing spaces, though, but nothing you can't fix with a simple regex AutoHotkey script, e.g.
[quote]^!=::
Send, ^{c}
Sleep, 100
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard, "^\s+|\s+$" ) ; trailing spaces removal
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard,"` +","` ") ; double spaces removal
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard, "(?<=^)([a-z])|(?<=\.|!|\?)(\s*[a-z])", "$u1$u2") ; sentence case
Sleep, 100
Send, ^{v}
return [/quote]
Topic: Ask me anything about subtitling
Poster: Max Deryagin
Post title: -
Hi Max,
[quote]Max Masutin wrote:
1. Creating waveforms.
a) Do you prefer anything other than Subtitle Edit?[/quote]
I prefer EZTitles, because it has a discrete waveform (one sound level per frame), which makes being frame-accurate much easier:
[quote]b) In Subtitle Edit, does it matter what you choose in Settings/Video player? So far I've been able to make it work only with VLC.[/quote]
No, not for the waveform's appearance.
[quote]2. Setting start and end times manually using video.
I didn't find Subtitle Edit easy to use for this. The control of playback is limited and switching between video and text is difficult. I prefer switching between a player and a text editor. I set the times and enter the text, a RegEx macro does the rest. Do you know a player where you can assign keys to copy the elapsed time as hh:mm:ss.mmm in 1-2 keystrokes? I like PotPlayer as it pauses when you switch focus. Strangely it omits milliseconds when copying with a dedicated function. Otherwise you need to press G, Ctrl+C, Esc. [/quote]
I'm not sure what you mean. You can assign hotkeys in Settings to pause/play the video, jump back and forward, set in- and out-time, etc. There are quite a few options, so there's no need to manually switch between the video and the text or copy the time.
[quote]3. Do you use voice-to-text? [/quote]
Yes, quite a bit, but Dragon doesn't really work for me, because it's slow and it doesn't support Russian, so what I use instead is GBoard's voice input. My smartphone is connected to the PC via an app called Unified Remote, and whenever I need to voice dictate, I just tap GBoard's microphone icon. Google's voice recognition is faster and more accurate than Dragon's, and it supports a huge number of languages. It's not good with capitalization and double/trailing spaces, though, but nothing you can't fix with a simple regex AutoHotkey script, e.g.
[quote]^!=::
Send, ^{c}
Sleep, 100
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard, "^\s+|\s+$" ) ; trailing spaces removal
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard,"` +","` ") ; double spaces removal
Clipboard :=RegExReplace(Clipboard, "(?<=^)([a-z])|(?<=\.|!|\?)(\s*[a-z])", "$u1$u2") ; sentence case
Sleep, 100
Send, ^{v}
return [/quote]