Subtitle Edit

Subtitle Edit

Developer(s)	Nikolaj Lynge Olsson
Stable release	4.0.10 / 22 December 2024; 24 days ago (2024-12-22)
Preview release	N/A
Repository	github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit
Written in	C# (2009 - Present) Borland Delphi (2001 - 2009) [1][2]
Operating system	Windows Linux
Platform	.NET Framework
Size	Windows: 8.0–11.6 MB Linux: 9.3 MB
Available in	34 languages
List of languages English, Chinese, Argentina, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type	Subtitle editor
License	GNU General Public License v3.0
Website	nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

Subtitle Edit (also known as SE) is a free and open-source subtitle editor to create, edit, adjust or synchronize subtitles for videos.

Features

SE supports 250+ subtitle formats. Some of the most popular ones are SubRip, Timed Text, DFXP (Netflix standards), ITT (iTunes), SubStation Alpha, MicroDVD, SAMI, D-Cinema and BdSub. It uses the VLC media player, MPC-HC, Mpv or DirectShow to play videos.

It is available in 34 languages and works on Windows and Linux.

Development

In 2001, Nikolaj Lynge Olsson had started the development of Subtitle Edit in Delphi which continued until April 2009. On 6 March 2009, 2.0 Beta 1 version (build 42401) was released.^[2]

Over time, more developers have contributed to SE's development, and it is still active. It is hosted at GitHub.

On May 17, 2011, the developer announced the testing version of SE 3.2 for Linux.^[3] It uses the same source code that was developed for Windows, to implement it on Linux using Mono Project.

On October 17, 2011, the developer announced the availability of stable version for Linux.^[4] The developer himself stated that it is working well on Ubuntu.

See also

• Comparison of subtitle editors

References

1. "Check for the comment dated on '09-25-02 10:20 PM' on this page". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
2. "Subtitle Edit 2.0 Beta 1 released". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
3. "A Linux version for testing is out". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
4. "Post published by developer(s)". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 19 Oct 2011.

Further reading

• "Subtitle Edit on videohelp.com". videohelp.com. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
• Niamh Lynch (2010). "An excellent app to edit subtitles". softonic.com. Retrieved 4 October 2011.

External links

• Official website
• Github repository