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Subtitle Workshop Software Features

Subtitle Workshop – Free Subtitle Editing Software features

Subtitle Workshop Reading and writing engine

· Based in URUSoft SubtitleAPI, so new formats can be easily added by downloading an updated dll file.
· Subtitle Workshop currently (SubtitleAPI v1.05) supports around 56 subtitle formats.
· Subtitle Workshop can handle both time and frame based subtitles.
· Subtitle Workshop can load files in plain text format so that you can set the timings.
· Supports reading and writing style tags (bold, italic, underline) and color tags in format which support it.
· Supports Output Settings in DVDSubtitle, SAMI, Sonic Scenarist, SubStation Alpha, SubViewer 1 & 2 and TMPlayer formats.
· Supports saving a subtitle in your custom format.

Subtitle Workshop Interface
· Subtitle Workshop has a user friendly.
· Subtitle Workshop supports multi-language (currently over 35 languages are available!).
· Can switch between interfaces to adapt to the user's need, you can turn Video Preview Mode on and off and Translator Mode on and off.
· Subtitle Workshop gives you user friendly "Translator mode".

Subtitle Workshop Video preview
· Integrated in the main window.
· Shows subtitles over the video.
· Subtitle Workshop can show information about the video you are watching.
· You are able to customize foreground color, background color (or transparent), show border or not, show shadow or not, border and shadow's width of the subtitles.
· NOT based in Windows Media Player, this results in a highly improved performance and visual quality.

Subtitle Workshop Subtitle fixing
· Highly enhanced functions strictly designed to get speed and a high grade of efficiency.
· Advanced & easy to customize text scripts for OCR errors repair, offering the possibility of using regular expressions.
· Powerful and totally customizable error fixing engine.
· Possibility to mark errors in the main list with a different font style and color so that it is easy to identify them visually.
· Optional automated checks/fixes on load subtitle.

Subtitle Workshop Timing operations
· Set delay (positive or negative, time or frames).
· Set duration limits (maximum duration and minimum duration).
· Adjust subtitles using four possible methods: 1- first and last dialogs, 2- synchronize using two points (linear algorithm), 3- Adjust to synchronized subtitles and 4- Advanced system to synchronize subtitles using an indefinite number of points.
· "Time expander/reducer" to expand/reduce the final time of certain subtitles under certain conditions.
· "Automatic durations" to calculate the duration of subtitles using a simple formula.
· FPS Conversion with one click.
· "Extend length" to extend the length of selected subtitles to the start time of the next one.
· "Shift subtitle" forward or backwards a configurable amount of time.
· "Read times from file" feature, to fix a subtitle using another subtitle's times. 

Subtitle Workshop Text and times related
· "Sort subtitles" to sort all the subtitles according to their start time.
· "Combine subtitles" to make all the selected subtitles become only one (for eg. "- Hi!" and "- Hey!!!" to "- Hi!|- Hey!!!").
· Visual effects with the texts and times of the subtitles.
· Possibility to mark subtitles for later review (and of course unmark them) and read Subtitle Report Files (*.srf) generated by ViPlay.