Best dedicated software for subtitling for a beginner?
Thread poster: Israel Cortes
Israel Cortes
Israel Cortes
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Nov 21, 2020

Hello everyone, just finalized my profile here at ProZ, I've actually worked on subtitling some videos before, mostly for educational/entertainment purposes, but I did those on Windows Movie Maker or straight on Youtube, so I would like to know any suggestions for a dedicated subtitling software, I'm not looking for something fancy just functional. Thanks in advance any comment/advice is much appreciated.

 
Woodstock (X)
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I don't do subtitling myself, so I can't offer any recommendations, but there have been loads of forum discussions on the subject- and just about anything else you can think of related to translating - so search the Proz forum for "subtitling software" or similar to find the results, and you'll find lots of useful information. An important component of our work is research, so I would encourage you to get good at it starting here.... See more
I don't do subtitling myself, so I can't offer any recommendations, but there have been loads of forum discussions on the subject- and just about anything else you can think of related to translating - so search the Proz forum for "subtitling software" or similar to find the results, and you'll find lots of useful information. An important component of our work is research, so I would encourage you to get good at it starting here.

Best of luck!
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Natalie
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Aegisub Nov 23, 2020

I suggest Aegisub: it is free, rather intuitive, and has everything you would need.

Gurvitch Dutès
Kristopher Brame
Israel Cortes
Stepan Konev
 
Hesam Arki
Hesam Arki
United States
English to Persian (Farsi)
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Subtitle edit Nov 23, 2020

Hello,

I suggest using " Subtitle edit". It is free and open source subtitle editor. It's really user-friendly software.


Thayenga
Stepan Konev
 
Israel Cortes
Israel Cortes
Mexico
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Thank you Nov 23, 2020

Natalie wrote:

I suggest Aegisub: it is free, rather intuitive, and has everything you would need.


Thank you for the suggestion, going to check it out.


 
Maxime Hollanders
Maxime Hollanders
Belgium
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Spanish to French
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Subtitle Workshop Nov 24, 2020

Hello

I personnally was thaught to use Subtitle Workshop, not sure if this is better or worse than Aegisub but it is completely free and quite straightfoward.


 


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