Saving

After synchronizing the opened file partially or totally, you can save it as a subtitle file from the File menu. To allow filters like the VobSub Subtitler Filter to automatically load the subtitles regardless of the player used, the saved subtitle file must have the same name as the video file. Below are examples of ready to use subtitle files.

Notice, now you can add the language name before the extension, and most players will still load automatically the subtitles. To use these subtitles with any media player, the author recommends to install the DirectVobSub filter, included in the DivX Total Pack at the DivXLand’s Software section.

If some captions are still without timing, Media Subtitler will ask the user to discard all the captions beyond the first non-timed caption point. However, if you choose to save the entire file including possible non-timed captions, this file will be already valid and usable to view a subtitled video, because captions without timing are actually saved with a timing of zero.

Note: Since version 1.6.4, line break point indicators can be selected from the Settings menu to different presets or an user defined combination of characters.

Configuration

Automatic timing settings

Since version 1.7.0 the old Automatic timing limit feature has been replaced with Caption length determines its duration time under the Timing Management section.

This feature determines each caption’s duration based on its length in characters, and with different values for short, medium and long captions. This is because short captions have a larger appear time per character than longer captions. Short captions are those with up to 5 characters, medium are those with 6 to 15 chars, and long ones have at least 16 characters.

By default, short captions have an appear time of 250 milliseconds per character and a tolerance of 100 milliseconds. The tolerance is per character as well, and not for the entire caption. See the following example:

We take a caption containing “Hi.” It will be treated as a short caption since it has 3 characters.

During subtitling process, this caption will be set to appear during: 250 x 3 = 750 milliseconds.

During subtitle file load, accordingly to the 100 ms tolerance, this caption can have a duration of either: (250 – 100) x 3 = 450 ms, or (250 + 100) x 3 = 1050 ms. Therefore, no correction would be applied for this caption while its duration is between the 450 to 1050 milliseconds range.

Only if the caption’s duration time per character is outside the established time plus its tolerance, (which in this case would be less than 450 or more than 1050 ms) a new duration will be set by multiplying the caption length by the current appear time per character. That is, 250 x 3 = 750 ms.

Corrections and the Report

Accordingly to the values defined at the Timing Corrections section, a caption with a duration shorter than the maximum allowed will have its disappear time increased.

Such increase could cause a collision with the next caption, in which case the caption colliding with the modified one will have its appear time delayed to avoid the collision.

Resuming: If the generated Report after loading a file contains too many line collisions caused by the timing modifications, you can either:

* Set smaller values for appear time per character * Set a larger tolerance for the caption’s duration * Disable automatic durations or do not apply this rule on file load

Automatic duration times are specially useful during subtitling process. With this option enabled in the subtitling process, after pressing the Apply or Start button, the end time of the selected caption will be instantly determined and the button temporarily disabled while the caption is being displayed on screen.