SubtitleTools

Whether you are trying to watch foreign films, or you just like having text captions on the screen, subtitles are vital in offering you the complete movie experience.

But, sometimes, these subtitles are not very well made and they may have annoying synchronization issues, or serious translation mistakes that could ruin the movie.

SubtitleTools is a handy software utility that allows you to modify almost every aspect of your subtitle documents and keep the highest standards when it comes to synchronization or translation quality. One of the major problems found in most text caption is the improper timing, which causes the subtitles to lag behind or be ahead of the actual dialog lines. SubtitleTools enables you to fix this issue by shifting time spans and correcting any synchronization mistakes.

The application also supports UTF-8 conversion, which allows the newly created documents to include a wide array of extra symbols and characters used in many foreign languages. The encoding can be performed on SRTs written in any language or dialect.

To be classified as a fully-featured subtitle utility, SubtitleTools needs to be able to edit the actual subtitle text. Although it cannot create new ones from scratch, the application gives you complete control over every aspect of the SRT file, including row deletion and content addition.

As a nice extra feature, a file merger is also included in the available function palette. This allows you to join to subtitle documents together, ideal for two-part movie files that have been externally merged and you need the text captions added as well. The starting point for the second part can be manually introduced to ensure proper synchronization.

Beside the already mentioned features, SubtitleTools is also capable of downloading subtitles from websites such as OSDB and even upload new ones to the same service, as well as search IMDB ratings and weblinks directly from inside the application.

There are few things you cannot do with SubtitleTools, while the intuitive interface makes it even easier to achieve the best results when it comes to your movie subtitles.