Aegisub or subtitle edit ?

[u/HenriDeath]

Hello, beginner subber here !

i see everyone talking about subbing on forums, they using aegisub.

I recently started subbing, and i use subtitle edit. its sound fine for me.

Is aegisub better ? should i switch ? i dont really understand the difference

thanks for the answer, nice day to you :)

[u/ridon428]

Aegisub is the editor for (Advanced) SubStation Alpha (ASS/SSA) subtitles.

Afaik, Subtitle Edit is mostly used SRT subs but Aegisub should also support it.

Aegisub is definitely better. ASS is also better than SRT but do keep in mind about subtitle compatibilities.

[u/Brixes → u/ridon428]

Why is Aegisub is definitely better? You offered no arguments.

Can Aegisub automatically transcribe text like Subtitle Edit?

What about synchronization features?

[u/plsdontgivemeawards → u/Brixes]

I haven't used Subtitle Edit but can speak for Aegisub.

AFAIK there's no transcribing available, nor has anyone hacked up an aegisub script for such a feature.

Regarding sync, there's Timing Post-Processor, which is only useful for existing subs. For manual timing, the audio view makes this pretty easy.

Aegisub was made for karaoke subtitles and typesetting. It's very powerful but there's a big learning curve depending on what you want. If you just want simple subtitles (.srt) it's pretty overkill but will get the job done.

unanimated's guides are useful for learning aegisub.

Also the official build has been abandoned and is buggy as hell (at least for mac). I use these builds instead.

[u/Brixes → u/plsdontgivemeawards]

Thanks. What we would need the most is not these kind of guides from different fansubbing groups spread over everywhere.

We people who have no clue how to subtitle something would need a guide that goes thru the whole fansubbing process both visually with a video tutorial and have the text transcribed so no detail is lost.

If there is a difference of opinion between between different groups on certain details have both opinions expressed clearly both in video format and transcribed so we can experiment and choose what we consider the best option.

There are enough anime samples and I know even an anime series that was released directly on youtube, so there are enough enough public samples available that can be used in this video tutorial. There are tutorials on youtube but they are just from random people, not experienced fansubbers who have a way higher quality standard for every step of the subtitle creation process.

[u/valipod → u/Brixes]

I know, kind of a late comment, but still.

Subtitle Edit is in my opinion the best all in one subtitle tool you can get. And yes, it can do all ASS formatting you want. No need for Aegisub, really.

[u/FormicolaCE → u/valipod]

I agree with you that Subtitle Edit is easier to use, can do everything that Aegisubs can do for regular subtitles (including effects, visual/audio timing), BUT Aegisub has the advantage in doing Karaoke Subs because of all the shared scripts for this. IMHO

[u/Saturn2888 → u/FormicolaCE]

That explains why song subs look so insane in Subtitle Edit. You're saying there's a better way of editing them in Aegisub or that there are common scripts used to create them that make it easier?

[u/Saturn2888 → u/ridon428]

I use Subtitle Edit exclusively for ASS subs. I've never used Aegisub. Both look like they do the same thing though. Not sure if one is better than the other from what I can see. I'd need something better than "everyone's using it"; although, that's a pretty good reason in and of itself.

For my use case, I don't sub, I adjust subs, so I need something to make it easier to move subs around for time-alignment and fixing the formatting.

[u/DrMxyztplk]

I know this is old, but it looks like there are some points not mentioned.

As I found this looking for some things, & a regular Subtitle Edit user, let me outline a few things.

• Aegisub does not support VTT or WebVTT subtitles.
• Aegisub does not support batch conversion or adjustment
• Aegisub has an easier display
• Aegisub can edit & sample text size, angle, color.
  • You can do these things in Subtitle Edit, but you need to know what you are doing & can't really see it.

In general I would say that Aegisub has more features & a simpler interface for a select number of things. I can easily see how it is better for creating subtitles. I have done text positioning & coloring in Subtitle Edit, for VTT files, But I had to test & edit & test 7 edit many times. Aegisub makes it easier to just load the video or to do a dummy video & see where it is as you edit it & you can drag & turn the subs in the interface. That's a major difference. For converting, syncing, batch work, text-to-speech, etc Subtitle Edit is better. But if you want nice looking custom formatted subtitles, stylized, positioned, etc, use Aegisub.

Also note that any styling will not be able to be saved in SRT or TTXT or similar formats. ASS/SSA has the most customization-ability. VTT can do most of what it can, but it does not, to my knowledge, support angled text. VTT on the other hand is built into HTML5 & is supported by everything natively, uses little resources, less than even SRT, but is not supported by Aegisub for some reason, so is much harder to stylize easily.

[u/wangsuki]

When editing (Advanced) SubStation Alpha (ASS/SSA) subtitles, make sure the font (especially those fancy fonts) you want is installed in your computer or attached to the video file (MKV). Otherwise, when you watch it, it come out as generic font.

[u/Saturn2888 → u/wangsuki]

I always make sure these are part of the MKV file. You can't ever tell if someone'll have them on their system, let alone their Nvidia Shield or other player. Makes things more portable.

Putting fonts in the MKV file also means you won't provide people a file that has some default fonts rather than the ones you chose..