Using Subtitle Editor after a subtitle is added.

[huckrorick]

Can you use the subtitle editor after a subtitle is added? When I select the subtitle and click on the subtitle editor it asks me to select a clip. If I select the clip and click on the subtitle editor, the editor comes up without any of the subtitles I had previously added. If I save to a subtitle file and later import the subtitle file and edit it, a whole new set of titles is created in addition to the old ones. It doesn’t replace the old ones.

[lata]

Hi

Yes that’s correct………..

1 / The clip you select has to be the same length or longer than the subtitle file.
2 / Selecting the Subtitle editor does open with an empty panel
3 / Choose the Import Subtitle File… (Curved arrow Icon top menu) browse for the srt file.

Provided the video is long enough as in 1 above , then all titles will show.

You can now edit the titles, then OK will add them to the timeline as individual clips.

If you repeat the process again you are working with the same srt, but the titles will be added to the second text timeline effectively duplicating them.

Once added to the timeline they are individual clips not a srt file.

Repeat again and the overlay track will be used.

[asik1]

I don't understand why you don't edit the sub like any other common title ?
double click on it and edit it.

[lata]

Hi asik

The srt file (subtitle file) can contain many titles / clips
If you wished to change the font size or type for all titles, then yes you can do individually
If you edit the srt file you do a batch edit, all titles in one go.

But that does not edit the existing timeline clips, it adds the titles as new, we need to delete the original titles. Still much quicker that individual editing.
It does place the titles at the bottom middle of the screen, but that’s where subtitles sit.

[asik1]

Trevor, my English is not as good as yours, but I understood form the first post that a single sub is in need for an edit.

[lata]

There is a little confusing regarding the srt Subtitle file and Title clips.

When we add a srt the timeline it expands to show all titles. (previously created)
Now we are editing individual titles not the Subtitle file.

If we open the SubTitle editor we are trying to create a new srt (subtitle file), not editing the Titles in the timeline.

We can however use the Editor to open and edit existing srt files, however the selected video clip has to be long enough to accommodate the titles within the srt file.

If the SubTitle file is 10 minutes long, yet we open to a 2 minute video clip, only the first two minutes of the srt will display in the editor.

I know what I mean but a little difficult to explain.

seven titles.zip

(337 Bytes) Downloaded 123 times

I have attached a srt -- approx 27 seconds duration.
You can add this to the timeline to display the 7 titles. (open subtitle file)
Delete those clips.
If you add a video to the top track, shorter than 27 seconds open the Subtitle editor
Import srt choosing the seven titles.srt, the panel will only show a few not all titles, the video has to be the correct length or longer. (audio samples are longer)


When using srt we should use with the same video as it was created, after all that’s what its for.

[huckrorick]

Hi Trevor, directed the notes below to this topic. Since there was not response I’m repeating your note, my response and my later test.
Can you keep subtitles from multiple clips in one SRV file?

Hi

If you have a lot of subtitles on the timeline, using sub titles you do have a lot.

You can save all titles as a srt, (save Sub-Title file) will save all titles to one file.

That file can then be opened in the Sub-Title editor, first you have to select the video associated with the srt, or any long video, a video of a suitable length.

All the titles will show in the Sub-Title indicating the start and end times along with text.

Trevor

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I'm not quite sure I understand.

For example, say I have 10 clips in a video. Each clip has dialog that I want to make subtitles for.
In order to open the subtitle editor I need to select 1 clip. I then add subtitles for that clip and save it to an SRT.
I then select another clip and open the subtitle editor and retrieve the same SRT.
I assume it will show the subtitles from the other clip, correct?
But they won’t be in the new clip that I have selected, correct?
Then, can I scan the new clip? And hypothetically say the second clip I am selecting is before the first clip. Where will the subtitles show? After the other clip? Or before, where logically they should be?
But I can add the new subtitles and save it and thereby have the subtitles for 2 clips in one SRT, correct?
If I then insert a clip between them, will the timing be all off?

I went to test this (rather than ask the question), but now the subtitle editor freezes my computer every time I use it. !@#*! Which raises some more difficult questions.

Huck

Follow-up:
This freezing has been intermittent. Enough that I’ve given up trying to use subtitle editor for subtitles. However, I tested to see if it could store the subtitles from more than one clip in a single file. As far as I can tell it cannot. If you use subtitle editor to put subtitles in one clip, save to an SRV, exit the editor, select another clip, start the editor, retrieve the SRV, scan the clip, it will erase all your previously save subtitles from the previous clip. You can save these subtitles but the subtitles for the other clip will be completely lost.

The result is that if you have a video with 10 clips you will have to save 10 SRV files if you want to use subtitle editor to work with them. This renders the subtitle editor much less useful than it might be.

[lata]

Hi

First try resetting your program to fix the subtitle panel errors.

On Windows 8 :

1. On the keyboard, launch the Run box by pressing the Windows button then the letter R (Windows + R)

2. In the Open box, type %APPDATA% and press the enter key.

3. In the new window, find the Ulead Systems folder.

4. Open the Ulead Systems folder.

5. Open the Corel VideoStudio Pro folder.

6. There should be a folder named 17.0 here.

7. Rename 17.0 to 17.0_old.

[lata]

Sub Titles

1 / The subtitle editor is used to automatically scan video files identifying the Voice locations and providing a text box, we add the text.
Once completed we can add the titles directly to the timeline. (1T)
Or
Save the titles as a SubTitle.srt file.

2 / The actual sub title file srt can be loaded to any timeline (Open Sub Title File) to display all Title clips irrespective of the video content. Generally this would be added to the original video file as that’s its partner, but will load/open to an empty timeline.

Editing in Video Studio

3 / We can manually add titles to the timeline, (first Title Track) these may be associated with several clips, it does not need to be a single clip.
All individual titles can be saved as a single Subtitle.srt file. The option to Save SubTitles saves all titles within the first Title Track timeline.

4 / Ok so we have created a Subtitle.srt file, again this srt file can be added to a new project to display all title clips.
If we wish to edit all title clips then we can open the srt file in the Sub Editor, however this process has to be associated with a video or Audio file, the same length as the titles in the timeline.

5 / we can open the str using NotePad, here we will see the individual time codes and text, the last entry shows the total duration of the clips. That is the minimum length of video/ audio required.

6 / Insert a suitable Audio file to the timeline, select, then open the Sub Title Editor
Import Sub Title file will display all clips. We can edit the font etc which will affect all clips.
Save by Export Sub Title or Load to timeline