GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 547984
Quick subtitle timing during playback
Last modified: 2018-09-21 16:01:20 UTC
This new feature is completely needed. An app called DivXLand Media Subtitler for windows contains this subtitling mode I'm going to explain. I've been using DivXLand Media Subtitler on windows and it works this way: Only ONE button for timing. The person starts to speak, you press and keep holding the button. You only stop holding the button when he/she stops speaking. So you don't have to use "Set subtitle start" and "Set subtitle end" which makes subtitling painful.
See how it works in case you have Windows XP too: http://www.divxland.org/subtitler.php Download it. Sorry for my bad english.
Hi, I agree that this would be a useful feature. It has been discussed before in the mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=460EAACA.7060709%40wp.pl&forum_name=gnome-subtitles-general). I still have to check how that application does it. Some points that can be taken from the previous discussion are: - Where to include that synchronization button (if on the main window or in a separate window) - Whether to allow to specify a delay, to account for the reaction of the user when a person starts to speak in the video - Whether to automatically set the duration to a default value (hence only the start time is used when the user presses the button)
actually, this is only ONE mode I told you about... DivXLand Media Subtitler has at least 2 subtitling modes I guess. E isso inclui: - um modo onde tu prime o botão quando o actor começa a falar... o timing inicia e só para quando tu soltares o botão. - outro modo: onde você especifica o tempo do botão... tu podes definir a duração do botão (1 segundo)... você prima o botão e então o timing se encerrará automaticamente 1 segundo depois que tu primar o botão Se tens Windows, seria bom um teste. Mas creio que é assim que deverá funcionar. Até logo. Obrigado.
Finally I got a chance to try that application. Those 2 timing modes seem pretty easy and useful. I updated the TODO on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeSubtitles/TODO to include this feature.
*** Bug 583488 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It would be nice to remember that now everyone uses mouse. Keyboard shortcuts to insert a start time/frame marker and an end marker should be available as well. You can also check how it is made in SubEdit (very powerful subtitle editor for Windows available as a freeware). It has also an intuitive interface for that: http://matinf.pcz.pl/~subedit/english/information.html
Created attachment 162096 [details] [review] Add the feature quick subtitle timing during playback
Hi, I've made a patch posted above to this feature to act of the same way of DivXLand Media Subtitler, as proposed by A. G. Luz in the first mode.
Review of attachment 162096 [details] [review]: Patch commited. Keyboard shortcuts are the remaining feature for this bug to be fixed (to be committed in a different patch).
Note: besides keyboard shortcuts, easy timing with automatic duration calculation is also included in this bug.
Created attachment 164345 [details] [review] Adds shortcuts to this feature I have marked two functions with todo marks. It needs change this functions names to a more logic one. Temporaly I put the shortcuts with the keys ctrl-alt-x.
Review of attachment 164345 [details] [review]: Patch committed.
*** Bug 636505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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