Edit/Create subtitles with gnome-subtitles, a subtitle editor for GNOME

I like keeping a collection of my favorite TV shows and Movies along with the subtitles. For a single playback, I won't mind fixing the subtitle from the player's settings, even though its frustrating most of the times, but while making a collection, you need perfect subtitles. Finding the correct one is not an easy task and neither is editing it. This is where a subtitle-editor comes in handy. Gnome-subtitles is one such tool and by far my favorite.

Install gnome-subtitles

For Ubuntu/Debian systems, either click this link or run the following command in the terminal.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install gnome-subtitles

For Ubuntu, you can even use the software center to install it.

Fore Fedora/RedHat systems, just run the following command in the terminal

[root]# yum install gnome-subtitles

Once installed, the application can be found in Applications->Sound & Video->gnome-subtitles

Features

Like me, if its the first time you are using a subtitle editor then pretty much every feature looks amazing and a tremendous time saver.

• As a subtitle editor, playing media and editing subtitles simultaneously makes synchronizing really easy.
• There are a lot of pre-defined functions that save you a lot of time while fixing bad subtitles e.g. adjust, shift etc.
• While editing, the app will automatically guess the concerned video from the subtitle's name and loads it. You can ofcourse mention it manually too.
• It supports more subtitle formats than most of you would know.
• Instead of editing, the other major function of this tool is to help create subtitles from scratch. And thanks to its user friendly WYSIWYG interface, even this redundant task becomes easy
• You can find a full list of features here.

I hope this will be useful for some of you. If there is some other subtitle editor you use, do let us know.