Introduction

I made this article because many people were asking questions on how to sync subtitles. Well, this article should help those who want to sync their subtitles accurately to their correct timing.

This method can be used either if you need a constant or an arbitrary delay.

For this article I will use SubtitleWorkshop version 2.51.

I hope this clears all your doubts on how to sync subtitles. Enjoy

Steps Involved In Syncing

1. Download SubtitleWorkshop from Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links. and install the program.

2. Run the program and load your subtitle and video by dragging/dropping both to SubtitleWorkshop’s main window:



3. To sync the subtitle, click on "Add Subtitle/Video Synchronization Point" or press Ctrl+Alt+P:



4. Select the ‘Simple’ tab:



5. Find out the timings of the first and the last spoken lines. They’re displayed on the right side of the sliding bar:



6. Now go back to the ‘Simple’ tab and change the values accordingly:



7. Save your subtitle clicking on ‘File’ and then ‘Save’. If you want, you can change the filetype selecting ‘Save As’, otherwise it’ll remain as the original file (.srt, .sub etc.). You can now enjoy your video with subtitles after syncing them to your desired timings.

(Taken from VeRdiKT's tutorial @ SubScene.com. List of credits goes as follows:
Lyliakar at subscene.com for publishing and editing this article.
Rogard at subscene.com for telling us about this cool software.
DivXStation.com from where I took some points on making this article.
URUSoft for this wonderful software (Subtitle Workshop 2.51) and guidelines.)

Do you have a tutorial for mac users?

Nope, but i`ll look for one.

Greeeat! Thanks, dude!

Humm... Do you know Visualsubsync aka VSS ? SW is a prehistoric tool by comparison to VSS.

And VSS is pretty limited compared to Aegisub...

I don't agree. VSS has the best additional plugins, it can make standards subtitles as professionals. Aegisub is perhaps better for karaoke or others "gadgets", but who cares except those who make japanime. Anyway, VSS powa for good subs.

Please, excuse my English :/

Well, the day the VSS has the video/audio support and can work with .ass/.ssa as well as Aegisub, we talk ok?

And the plug-in's for VSS are not that great, I know it well because I program my own subtitle programs.

question... i tried to download the subtitles for the first season of True Blood. i watched the 1st episode and everything went well. however for the 2nd episode onwards, i notice some problems. the videos i have has the "previously on..." recap of the previous episode and the subtitles i got here didn't have a subtitle for the recaps. the subtitle for the 2nd episode, for example, starts with the actual line for the start of the series.

but anyway i already found subtitles for it that includes the recap. but just incase, using the software and instruction you said here, how would i edit the timing and find out when the subtitle should start based on the first line of the episode's start and not the first line spoken which is about the show's recap???

(11-24-2009 06:04 PM)kuting Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.but anyway i already found subtitles for it that includes the recap. but just incase, using the software and instruction you said here, how would i edit the timing and find out when the subtitle should start based on the first line of the episode's start and not the first line spoken which is about the show's recap???

You can do it with Visualsubsync very easily, check the first line on the sub and the first line spoken and use CTRL+D to resynch. The first sub must be start 60-120ms before the speech for a good timing.

If you want to use subtitle workshop, use CTRL=D too, but it's less accurate.

You can check video tuto on youtube : For example

Hi! Thanks for this info. However, I cant seem to get it right. I have 2 srt files; the first file runs too long so it easy to cut off the extra subtitles and the file is corrected. Now, I have to append my deletion to the second file. Once I go through the above steps and generate a new srt it doesnt change all the timings in the srt for new portion I added. It does change them for the old portion however. Any help would be greatly appreciated.