Subbing, SRT etc - I'd need some advice

[Falcon_of_the_Sun]

Hello!

while I beat Google like it owes me money™, I thought I could ask the question here too as I read of quite a lot of fansubbing.

I was wondering if there are programs that can facilitate and speed up the otherwise painstakingly boring monkey job of manually timing the subtitles in an SRT file.

I am subbing a documentary and we are short of time. I am in charge of the translation of subs only (not editing/hardcoding them into the actual video file), but I have more time on my hands than the friends who asked me to do the translation. So we thought I could work on creating SRT subs in the meantime, as a last option in case hardsubs took too long to be done.

At the moment I have the translated subs in Excel. Each contains a string of text that can be displayed well on one line.

Many thanks

[Shinoyami65]

I found a site that lets you shift forward the time on subs, which was useful when I was trying to adjust the Evageeks fansubs for the BD of 3.0, but I can't remember what the URL was...if I find it again I'll post it here.

[TMBounty_Hunter]

http://www.aegisub.org/

Does pretty much anything you could possibly want out of subtitles, including making timing as painless as possible.

[Falcon_of_the_Sun]

http://www.aegisub.org/

Does pretty much anything you could possibly want out of subtitles, including making timing as painless as possible.

Win.

Thanks a lot!

[The Eva Monkey]

I found subtitle workshop to be relatively easy to use in the past:

http://subworkshop.sourceforge.net/

Also, PRO TIP.

Depending on what you're doing, you can possibly just upload your video into YouTube, enable automatic subtitles, and then download the SRT file that it generates. Chances are, the text will be junk, but you can update the text so you don't have to deal with all of the timing.

[Falcon_of_the_Sun]

Thanks Aaron, too, but Aegisub is really doing it for me, it just seems built for my situation.

TMBounty, may nothing but happiness come through your door, you've really done me a great favour!