Subtitles may appear too late sometimes, or too early, so that you need to adjust them, synchronize them with the people speaking in the movie. VLC is a program that will help you do that easily; in fact, I have not found any other program so easy to use when it comes to subtitles synchronization. I’m not speaking about permanent synchronization, when you prepare a video to be burned to a DVD, etc, but when you are watching a movie and you need a quick solution to adjust the subtitles instantly and keep enjoying your movie.

Here is the two magical hotkeys VLC offers to let you synchronize the subtitles easily: a simple G and a simple H. Pressing just the G key you remove delay, make subtitles appear earlier; pressing the H key you make the subtitles appear later, you add delay.

If in a movie the actors speak and after a while the relevant subtitles appear, press the G key (remove delay) until you synchronize them. If the subtitles of a scene appear before the actors speak, then press the H key (add delay) to synchronize them. Check this post on how to make the synchronization permanent, especially if you want to embed the subtitles into a new video file.

* Check also this list with the best free subtitle editors.

* Don’t miss VLC Untied, a free program that lets you select one or more files or folders in Windows Explorer and load them to VLC media player instantly using a keyboard shortcut, even removing completely any files that may be already loaded and playing.