Subtitle Edit
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| Subtitle Edit | |
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| Developer | Nikolaj Lynge Olsson |
| Stable release | 5.0.0[1] 
/ 22 June 2026 |
| Preview release | N/A |
| Written in | C# (2009 - Present) Borland Delphi (2001 - 2009) [2][3] |
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| Size | 30.8 MB – 141 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 |
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Subtitle Edit (also known as SE) is a free and open-source subtitle editor for creating, editing, adjusting or synchronizing subtitles for videos.
Features
[edit]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.Support for these formats isn't complete, though. For instance, WebVTT is one of the supported formats, but none of its styling features are supported.
As of version 5.0, SE relies on either the VLC media player or mpv for video playback, and FFmpeg for waveform generation.
SE is available in 34 languages and works on Windows and Linux.
Development
[edit]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.[3]
Over time, more developers have contributed to SE's development, and it is still active. It is hosted at GitHub.
On 17 May 2011, the developer announced the testing version of SE 3.2 for Linux.[4] It uses the same source code that was developed for Windows, to implement it on Linux using Mono Project.
On 17 October 2011, the developer announced the availability of stable version for Linux.[5] The developer himself stated that it is working well on Ubuntu.
Version 5.0, released in June 2026, is a full rewrite, using the Avalonia framework and .NET 10. It is self-contained and requires no .NET installation. It is cross-platform and supports macOS.[6]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Release 5.0.0". 22 June 2026. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
- ↑ "Check for the comment dated on '09-25-02 10:20 PM' on this page". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- 1 2 "Subtitle Edit 2.0 Beta 1 released". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ↑ "A Linux version for testing is out". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ↑ "Post published by developer(s)". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ↑ "Changelog.txt (Tag: v5.0.0)". SubtitleEdit/SubtitleEdit repo. 22 June 2026 – via GitHub.
Further reading
[edit]- "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.