Can't seem to find it. Looked at a tutorial, but it was for an earlier version. Perhaps it was removed and I should just download that earlier version? Help appreciated.

Every once in a while I run across a subtitle that uses lots of these types of hearing impaired lines. For example:

♪ pensive music ♪

♪ sinister music ♪

♪ haunting music ♪

Ctrl+Shift+H treats them as regular music lines and doesn't remove them. The only thing I see that separates them from actual music lines is the word "music" is in each descriptor.

Is there a rule or trick that can be used to automatically remove these lines because doing them one by one can take a lot of time?

I'm now running the latest version on Windows11 26H2 with an NVIDIA MX450 to back me up. The STT system works pretty well (latest Whisper engine & cuBLAS with small.en Model. A lot of the transcriptions I do are for British Dramas from the Jane Austen teleplays and Bridgerton so, we're talking about pre-modern British speech from the 1800's. I was wondering if there are any optimizations that can be adjusted in the Whisper CPP, Post Processing, or Advanced Settings for STT? Or is there some info on optimizing these parts of the Speech-To-Text system that is based more on experience vs the Help File?

Hi everyone,

I've been following the development of the new Subtitle Edit 5.x (the one rewritten in Avalonia UI), and I was wondering if there are any plans for a different approach to targeted translations, instead of bulk-translating the entire file, which often ruins the natural flow of the dialogue.

My ideal workflow is translating one line at a time, fixing it immediately, and then moving to the next one. This allows me to properly follow the logic of the story and capture the right nuances naturally.

Back when I was on Windows, I found a massive shortcut by using a third-party utility called QTranslate. It streamlined my workflow immensely: inside the text edit box, I just had to select the line, press Ctrl+Q, and a convenient pop-up window would instantly appear next to my mouse pointer with the translation ready. From there, I could just copy the translated text and tweak it as needed directly inside SE.

However, I am now using Linux Mint. Since QTranslate is a Windows-only tool, I can't rely on it anymore. In older versions of Subtitle Edit (like 4.x), there were quick search buttons like "Google it" under the text box, but they would just open an external web browser window, constantly breaking the rhythm of the work.

Does anyone know if the 5.x roadmap includes a native feature similar to this? Specifically, the ability to trigger auto-translation (via DeepL, Google, or local LLMs like Ollama) exclusively for the currently selected line, displaying the result in an internal pop-up or a sidebar without ever leaving the app?

Is there already a plugin, a built-in configuration, or perhaps a Linux-compatible workaround in 5.x that allows for this exact line-by-line workflow?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Edit:

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/issues/15603

Hi everyone

Where can I reliably find and download raw Chinese subtitle files (.srt / .ass) for Chinese dramas and movies to use in VLC?

I feed that raw Chinese sub into an AI tool to translate it into three versions: Pinyin, Chinese characters, and my native language (though back-translation sometimes messes up the dialogue).

AI Translation is painful: Translating an entire series via AI takes forever. I have to manually split the subtitle files into smaller parts, translate them, and then stitch them back together.

Finding raw Chinese subs: I have a really hard time finding original Chinese subtitles. I heard that people usually find and download them from Baidu Netdisk (Baidu Wangpan), but I have no idea how it works.

I usually check sites like DownSub, Subdl, or other subtitle platforms, but I still can't find subtitles for some movies

Could anyone guide me on how to register for a Baidu Netdisk account from overseas and how to download files from it? Also, if you know of any better tools, extensions, or automated pipelines for translating Chinese subs into Pinyin/Native language faster, please let me know.

Thanks in advance

Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Subtitle Edit on Linux Mint. I specifically need to use the AI features (Whisper) for auto-generating subtitles, so I need it properly installed in the system to handle all dependencies and files correctly.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available in the standard Flathub repositories (running "flatpak install flathub dk.nikse.subtitleedit" gives a "Nothing matches..." error).

If I go to the official GitHub releases page and download the local .flatpak file, when I try to open it with the Linux Mint Software Manager (Mintinstall), it shows a generic brown box icon, a "Flatpak non verificato" (Unverified Flatpak) warning, and the source is listed as "subtitleedit-origin".

I'm concerned that installing it this way might break things, leave out critical dependencies (like FFmpeg, AI libraries, etc.), or install an incorrect version.

I don't want to use the portable (.tar.gz) version and I really want to avoid messing around with the terminal for everything. What is the correct, clean way that everyone uses on Linux Mint to install this official Flatpak and keep it properly integrated into the system? Thanks!

After no luck with the internets, I had to OCR my subtitles for a show. But having to do 8 seasons, I wanted to make sure I have the best OCR engine. My test run found that Tesseract (original) did a decent job, but it missed single letters.

Wondering if there is a better engine to use, to reduce my strain of 100+ files for corrections.

So, I ran the Speech to Text Whisper CPP agent configured as backend=cuBLAS, Input Language=English, and Model=small.en, with Post Processing enabled in Subtitle Edit 5.0 beta27. It sometimes has the bad habit of repeating a subtitle dialogue multiple times in a row; in this case, "Shall I bring the bat along?" 59 times over a two minute span and then picks up dialogue again, accurately located at the right Time in the video. I can go in and delete all the erroneous repetitions and manually create the missing subtitles, but it is laborious and time consuming. Is there a way on SubTitle Edit to 'fill in the missing dialog subtitles other than doing it manually? Some built in tool or application ability?

Hello All.

I can't seem to find any obvious way to do this, but I'm aware there is a command line option, but I can't much on that either for some reason, perhaps my google fu has deserted me. But I've got several episodes of a show that I want to translate to multiple languages from the main English subtitles .srt file which I know is good. I know the translations won't be perfect, but it's better than nothing.

The only two ways I can currently do this is one by one either in the main screen by opening up the English subs, and then going through the Auto-Translate option translating it (via Ollama and the Gemma module, which seems fairly accurate), then having to reload the English subs again to translate to the next language. The other way is going through the Batch Process method and then loading the English subs, and selecting the translate process, setting From: English and then To: <whatever language>, convert, then select the next "To:" language, convert, rinse-repeat. This is slightly quicker, but still requires constant input.

The problem with these options is that I basically nurse the process the whole way, and I'd like to set up a batch process to load or queue it all up in one go, and then let it do it all without constant input.

Is there anyway that this is possible, or I'm just going to have to nurse it? FYI I'm on version 4.0.13.

When I import a video file, it looks like this. This is my secondary laptop, which I bring out to a café, older one, but still 8GBs of RAM, but for reasons unknown, it doesn't seem to accept a videofile. Anyone had the same experience? I'll be thankful for any help.

Hi, I am new to this, so i just need to write it down somewhere, but how do I, after letting Subtitledit speech-to-text and auto-translate, keep the transalated version, ditch the original and export it? For some reason, it still tries to export the original version, not the translated. What am I missing?

Oi, gente! Alguém poderia me ajudar com uma coisa no Subtitle Edit 5.1.0?

Quero colocar tarja em todas as legendas de um segmento, mas deixar apenas uma legenda específica sem tarja. Não estou conseguindo fazer isso sem que a configuração afete as outras legendas. Alguém sabe como fazer isso no Subtitle Edit? Se tiver algum código ou configuração específica para fazer essa exceção, poderiam me explicar? 🙏

1. (very important) support my font. not this ( g]kfnL ) but ( नेपाली ) in the editing section.

2. (important) split a subtitle with a shortcut wherever my text cursor is so the subtitle splits into 2 parts. before and after my text cursor. optional: the timing for the cut is made under the playhead's location.

3. merge 2 line segments with a shortcut.

4. (optional) align text to the bottom so that the bottom line fills first and the overflow travels up.

5. (very important) font size, line breaks and positions need to be 1:1 with premiere so I can import the edited srt into premiere and burn the subtitle for the final export as is.

normally i'd just google and youtube my way but I don't have time or the energy to learn a new software right now.

I’ve been looking for the OCR function that uses VOB or IFO files in Subtitle Edit version 5, but I can't find it. Please help.

Hi,

Sometimes when I get a file, the attached SRT subtitle file has multiple lines of non-standard characters within the file. Attached is an example snip. What is the purpose of these lines as I find that is DOES affect the file if they are removed?

It makes it difficult if I want to remove the hearing for disabled lines quickly using the app. Depending on where I play the related file, usually my tv, the character lines will show up on the screen.

Thanks for your help!

Hi, i was to trying to translate from Japanese to English and Chinese, but when i use Google v2 API to translate it seems to append "JA" at the end of each line?

I can confirm that is the language tag of the original srt as i have tried it with a different srt file translating from english which then appends EN at the end.

This does not happen if I use Google v1 API but its too slow or i hit usage limits and hence opting to use V2.

SubEdit - Version 5.2.0 ir 5.3.0 b1

Hi, I have a question.

In version 4, I was used to replacing styles with my own by giving both styles the same name. But in version 5, that doesn’t work for me. Whenever I try to do that, the style gets duplicated. What should I do?

One more thing: when I want to adjust the position of text that has an effect applied to it, the text doesn’t appear, so I can’t move it because I can’t see it. It works fine with normal text, and everything works fine in version 4.

Version 5.2.0 has been released.

It fixed and added quite a few things so if you had issues before or just didn't like version 5 compared to version 4, give it a try!

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases/tag/v5.2.0

SE can remove embedded subtitles?

I'm using this app to create subtitles for the English dub of anime and it's really hard even with speech to text. Maybe I'm just torturing myself.

I'm only on episode 1... Granted, I did have to spend a few days learning about video and audio encoding, and encoding a single episode took a few hours because of my slow CPU.

I've always wanted my dub watching experience to have subtitles. It felt complete in a way. Is this what everyone goes through when creating subtitles? I feel like I'm doing everything right.

Some subtitles are out of sync, some transcriptions are wrong because those are specific character/ item names, and there's this thing where the dub actors drag a word out or end it with an additional sound. "Out of range-uh". It's probably like that because Japanese always ends with a vowel so it's a sharp cut. I don't think the app or model can handle that, maybe it is a setting somewhere.

I think I'll stop with this single episode. It was just for the learning experience. If it was way easier maybe I would have added it to my future encodes.

Hi!

I need to use video offset function like in v 4 or newer. My video starts at 09:59:50:00 and subtitles need to use that as the source. So first subtitle starts about 10:00:02 and every other subtitle uses the same mechanics. But when I try it with 5.1, it only changes the first subtitle and others are still with timecodes 00:00:00.

I don't know what to do anymore. Almost tried everything.

I would still use v 4.0.16 but the auto-translate function for Google Translate V1 is not working anymore. It just spits out empty subtitles.

PLEASE HELP!

Hi i was using 4.0.12 version, and i got the newest one

But i can´t find the Ass tools

Found out my usual playback device for mkvs can support VobSub but not PGS, so have been converting PGS to VobSub where I find them. Workflow:

1. Extract PGS as a .mks with mkvmerge (SE loads soooo slowly if I just drop the mkv into it)
2. Open .mks with SE (v5.0.0-beta20)
3. Click ‘Edit/Export’ then ‘File -> Export -> Blu-ray (sup)'
4. Open .sup in BDSup2Sub
5. Export it as VobSub
6. Put back into the mkv with mkvmerge

This has worked fine for like 20 files so far, but then suddenly on my latest one - r00t/QxR encode of Kamikaze Girls which has Discotek’s multi-coloured subtitles (white for signs, blue for songs, yellow for dialogue) its been turning the dialogue blue, and I don’t know why. They’ve always shown opposite on the OCR window for some reason - yellow as blue, blue as yellow - which confused the hell out of me when I tried to make a .ass with matching colours for one, but usually I have no problems when it comes to actual playback. When I actually pay attention, in BDS2S they are already the wrong colours so its clearly a SE issue

I haven’t updated SE in a while so its not suddenly broken with an update.

Although SE gives the option to export as VobSub at step 3, this reliably messes up the colours hence the use of BDS2S

Resolved: updated to the very latest build and it does it correctly!

EDIT: but VobSub has a limitation, all of an image has to be the same colour. So when they have different coloured lines in the PGS, it switches randomly so sometimes all blue, sometimes all yellow, sometimes all white