Winsubtitler

Winsubtitler is an advanced subtitle editing application that puts a search-and-replace function at your disposal to quickly make text corrections, in addition to a spellchecker, batch editing mode, and a DVD subtitle ripper, among others. It offers support for several file types, such as SRT, SSA, SUB, STL EBU and Vobsub SUB/IDX.

Installing this tool is a fast and simple job that shouldn't impose any difficulties. It's wrapped in an outdated interface that lets you make file type associations at startup, as well as open a subtitle file to get started.

All lines are shown in the main window, and you can check out their start and end time, duration, and caption. It's possible to edit text, change line offsets and frames per second, customize caption font colors, emphasize text (Bold, Italic, Underline), as well as to insert new lines anywhere in the whole document.

Winsubtitler supplies you with a few text effects too, such as stepper, counter stepper, liner, doubler, and blinker. What's more, you can review details surrounding the subtitle file name, format, duration, FPS, total frames, size, total lines, words and letters, along with the longest line and subline. Plus, you can check out two distribution charts of a subline's number and line's length.

Moreover, you can load a video file to accurately make subtitle corrections while playing the movie, export subtitles to STL EBU format, sort lines by time value or merge the ones with the same time values, search and replace text, jump to a specific line, as well as enable a simple built-in spellchecker or one which requires Microsoft Office).

The software application also lets you adjust time, expand delays, limit the minimum and maximum duration, remove special lines and characters, break lines, optimize the font size by changing the video and screen resolution, rip subtitles from DVD movies, as well as join and split subtitles.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that Winsubtitler didn't hang, crash or display error messages. It had a good response time and minimal impact on computer performance, using low CPU and RAM. Its interface needs a lot of improvements in the visual department.

Otherwise, this software program comes prepared with numerous useful options and customization preferences for editing subtitle files. It should meet the requirements of experienced users.